User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Introduction
- Requirements
- Installing and setting up
- Overview
- Basic methods
- Editing in the Wave window
- About this chapter
- Creating new empty documents
- Opening Waves
- Window overview and adjustments
- Setting the zoom factor
- Navigating through the file
- Snapshots
- Setting the ruler start position
- Working with a meter based display
- Setting the wave cursor position
- Selecting
- Basic editing commands
- File handling in Wave windows
- Editing attributes and getting information
- About the Loudness envelope display mode
- Playback and recording
- Metering
- Off-line processing
- Introduction
- Applying processing
- Level Normalizer
- Gain Change
- Loudness Normalizer
- Pan Normalizer
- Dynamics
- Level envelope
- Fade-in and fade-out
- Crossfade
- Invert Phase
- Reverse
- Eliminate DC Offset
- Waveform Restorer
- Time Stretch
- Pitch Correction
- Pitch Quantize
- Pitch Bend
- Harmonization
- Hi-fi Chorus
- EQ
- Convert sample rate
- Effect Morphing
- Support for reNOVAtor™
- Master Section
- Spectrum Editor
- Batch processing
- Batch file encoding
- Batch renaming
- Markers
- Using Auto Split
- Preparing a Basic Audio CD
- Creating, opening and saving Basic Audio CDs
- About the Basic Audio CD window
- Adding files to a Basic Audio CD
- Setting the order of the tracks on the CD
- Deleting files from Basic Audio CDs
- Managing list columns
- “Unfolding” a track
- Opening CD tracks for wave editing
- About the relation between the track list and CD markers
- Working with CD markers
- Adjusting pauses
- Naming tracks
- Other settings
- Checking the total length of the CD
- Playing files in the track list
- Creating a disc image
- Exporting audio files from a track list
- Preparations done!
- About the DVD-Audio format
- The Audio Montage
- Introduction
- The Audio Montage window
- Assembling the Montage
- Zooming and navigating
- Playing back
- Recording
- Rearranging clips
- The Zoom view
- Editing in the Clips view
- Managing clips and source files
- The volume envelope
- Using fades and crossfades in the Montage
- The pan envelope
- Transforming clips
- Adding effects to tracks and clips
- Managing effects in the Plug-ins view
- The Meta Normalizer
- Groups
- Using markers in the Montage
- Undo/Redo and History
- File handling in the Audio Montage
- Using video tracks
- Multichannel operation in the Montage
- Mixing down – The Render function
- Preparing the Audio Montage for CD/DVD- Audio burning
- Creating an Audio CD report
- Using DVD-A picture and text tracks
- Exporting and importing AES-31 files
- XML Export/Import of Audio Montages
- DVD-Audio projects
- Burning an audio CD
- Data CD/DVD Projects
- Importing audio CD/DVD tracks
- Creating labels
- Analysis
- Generating signals
- Synchronizing WaveLab to external devices
- Using samplers and creating loops
- Introduction
- Background information
- Setting up your sampler(s)
- Transmitting samples
- Receiving samples
- Deleting and getting information about samples
- The Transmit Back feature
- In case of problems
- Using WaveLab with Steinberg HALion
- Editing sample attributes
- Basic looping
- Using the Crossfade Looper
- Using the Loop Tone Equalizer
- Audio Databases
- What is an Audio Database and why do I need it?
- Creating and opening Audio Databases
- How Audio Databases are saved
- Window overview and adjustments
- Adding files to the Audio Database
- Customizing the File List
- Selecting in the File List
- Finding out where files are located
- Opening a file for editing
- Playing a file
- Other file operations
- Working with categories
- Location operations
- Filtering the list
- Finding files
- Changing the default categories and keywords
- Workspaces
- Using WaveLab for backup
- Customizing
- Plug-in Processor Reference
- Sampler Details
- SDS - Generic Sample Dump Standard
- SMDI (Standard SCSI transfer)
- Akai S1000/1100 including PB models
- Akai S2000/S2800/S3000/S3200, including all “i”, CD, and “XL” derivatives etc.
- Ensoniq, EPS, EPS16+, ASR-10, ASR-88
- E-mu Esi-32
- E-mu EIV, e64 and other samplers running the EOS operating system
- Kurzweil K2000 and K2500
- Roland S-760
- Troubleshooting
- General problems
- Problems with opening files
- Problems with saving files
- Recording problems
- Playback problems
- Editing problems
- Audio database and workspace problems
- Troubleshooting and precautions
- Sampler communication problems
- Problems and solutions
- Questions and Answers
- Day to day precautions for trouble free CD writing
- Hardware and setup issues
- Key commands
- Index
WAVELAB
3 – 26 Installing and setting up
• When using ASIO, the playback resolution is set from the ASIO driver
(you may find a setting for this in the ASIO Control Panel, depending on
the hardware and driver).
Therefore, the Playback Resolution settings will be greyed out.
Selecting an MME/WDM driver
1. Select “Preferences…” from the Options menu.
2. Click on the Audio device tab.
3. Select the audio card you want to use for recording and playback from
the pop-ups.
If you only have one audio card you can also select the “Microsoft Sound Mapper” options
(the sound mapper is a “virtual audio card” which “maps” all audio to your real card). How-
ever this does not let you take full advantage of the card’s driver when recording audio and
is therefore not recommended.
4. Choose your “Playback Resolution”.
Additional audio settings
There are other settings in the Preferences that affect audio playback and
recording. We recommend that you try the default settings before you
change anything, since these work well in most cases.
On the “Audio Card” tab, you will find the following settings:
• Playback Buffer Number and Size.
These determine how much RAM memory is used for buffering when playing back. If you
get playback problems such as dropouts or glitches, you should try to increase these val-
ues. Click the question mark icon in the dialog for details.
With ASIO drivers, you may find these settings in the ASIO Control Panel.
• Recording Buffer Number and Size (not available when using ASIO).
These determine how much RAM is used for buffering when recording. If you get dropouts
in the recorded audio, you should try increasing these values. Click the question mark icon
in the dialog for details.
On the Preferences–File tab, you will find the following settings:
• Disk block buffer size.
Governs the buffer size used when WaveLab is reading data from the hard disk. If you ex-
perience problems in a read intensive scenario (such as playing back an Audio Montage
with a lot of simultaneous clips), you should try changing this value.
If you change this setting, playback will stop when you leave the dialog.