User Manual

WAVELAB
14 – 318 Batch renaming
• Pair of characters around text – The selected range will be preceded by a
specific character, and followed by another character.
Useful e.g. to put parentheses around a part.
• Space around text – Inserts a space character before and after the se-
lected range.
• Space after specific characters – You specify a list of characters, then
WaveLab will search for these characters in the selected range and insert
a space after each one it finds.
• Space before each capitalized word – This can be useful to transform a
name such as “MyNicePiano” to “My Nice Piano”.
If the option “Lower case for each word but first one” is activated, the result would be “My
nice piano”.
Find and replace from table category
This category allows you to define a table of words (any size), and to as-
sociate each word with a replacement. This feature is useful to reformat a
text according to a new style. For example, it could be used to map a se-
ries of numbers to a series of tags, e.g. to change a numerical sequence
like “000 - 127” to “C-2 - G8” (MIDI notes).
It is set up as follows:
1. Click the Menu button and select “New” from the pop-up menu.
A dialog appears allowing you to type in a name for the table.
2. The Renaming table opens.
This contains two columns; a Find column and a Replacement column.
3. Click the “+” in the top left corner.
A text field opens in the Find column, allowing you to type in a text string to replace in the
selected range.
4. Double-clicking in the Replacement column will open a text field where
you can type in a text string to replace the text specified in the Find col-
umn.
5. You can continue adding text matches and replacements in the respec-
tive columns using the same methods.
You can reopen the table at any time to add new words by selecting “Edit” from the “Menu”
pop-up.
There are two options on the Type pop-up:
• Find anywhere in text – The selected range searches each word in the ta-
ble, and each match is replaced.