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
Importing audio CD/DVD tracks 23 – 597
File format – Converting CD track(s) to other formats
The extracted audio files are saved in WAV (Wave) format by default. You
can, however, directly save files in other audio formats by clicking the but-
ton at the bottom of the dialog to open the Audio File Format dialog, and
select the desired file format from the Type menu.
Among the formats available are the following compressed audio formats:
MP3, MP2, WMA and Ogg Vorbis.
When any of these formats is selected, you can click the Encoding field
and select “Edit…” from the pop-up to open the corresponding Encoding
dialog, where you can specify the bit rate and other attributes of the file to
be created.
CD reading method
In rare cases, the default method of extracting audio samples from a drive
does not work. In such cases you can change the extraction method used
by selecting the “CD reading method” item on the Options pop-up menu.
This opens a dialog with several optional audio extraction methods. Click
the question mark icon in the respective dialog for details.
• Do not change the settings if you are not having problems!
About Ultra-Safe mode
Sometimes a small bit of a CD track is not properly retrieved (this de-
pends on the quality of your CD drive). This can result in unpleasant clicks
and pops. To solve this issue, you can activate the ultra-safe mode on the
Options pop-up menu. When activated, each CD track is read several
times until the exact same result is found (check sums are used).
Convert to Montage
The “Convert to Montage” function can convert a CD to an Audio Montage.
There are two basic methods you can use; Standard mode or Exact mode.
The Standard mode analyses digital silence between tracks to recreate
pauses between tracks. Certain CDs don’t have pure digital silence be-
tween tracks in which case the tracks will not be separated by pauses.
The “Exact” mode method is different (and can take a while to complete).
Here, all tracks, all index (and sub-index) markers and pauses are re-
trieved (including audio-in-pauses), as well as CD-Text, ISRC and UPC
codes. A single file is created. A third mode “Exact (no audio)” is also
available. It is like “Exact” but without retrieving the audio tracks.
Once you have converted to a montage, you can reorder tracks, remove
some tracks or add new tracks. You can use this function to create mixed
compilations of CDs.