User Manual

WAVELAB
19 – 408 The Audio Montage
About monitoring the recorded signal
WaveLab in itself does not handle monitoring (routing the input signal
back to the output) during recording. If you want to hear the signal you are
recording, there are two ways to achieve this:
• Use an external mixer.
Normally, you connect your audio input sources (and the audio card’s outputs) to the
mixer’s inputs, connect the mixer’s main outs to the monitoring equipment and use a send
or bus to send the desired channels to the audio card’s inputs for recording. This is neces-
sary to avoid including background tracks in the recorded signal.
• Use the audio card’s mixer application.
Many audio cards allow you to route the input signal back to the outputs. Consult the doc-
umentation of the audio card for details.
Rearranging clips
About the mouse zones (audio tracks only)
Basic rearranging of clips in the Audio Montage is done by clicking and
dragging with the mouse. However, the results of dragging with the mouse
depend on where in the clip you click. The different areas in a clip are called
mouse zones.
By default, the mouse zones have the following basic functionalities:
Mouse zone Description
Top clip area Copy clip by dragging (see “Duplicating clips” on page 419).
Upper clip area Make a selection range (see “Selection ranges” on page 413).
Lower clip area and
Bottom clip area
Select clips and move clips by dragging (see “Selecting clips” on
page 411 and “Moving clips” on page 415).
Upper and lower
clip edges
Resize clips by dragging the edges (keeping the audio source “static”
– see “Resizing clips” on page 422).
Top clip area Upper clip area
Lower clip areaBottom clip area
Upper clip edge
Lower clip edge
Upper clip edge
Lower clip edge