User Manual

WAVELAB
Audio Databases 29 – 699
Working with categories
Categories allow you to organize your files according to type or context
rather than names or location on the hard disk.
For example, this allows you to display all bass drums on all your hard
disks, removables and CD-ROMs with one simple click!
About the category folder list
The Category pane contains a number of folder symbols. These all repre-
sent categories and subcategories. For example, there is an “Instrument”
category, which contains a “Strings” category, which in turn contains a
“Bowed” category and so on.
• Folders are opened and closed as in the standard Windows Explorer, including
using the [+] and [–] keys.
• You can create and remove category folders, as described in the section “Creat-
ing, renaming and removing categories” on page 701.
The “Instruments” category and its subcategories
Moving files into categories
1. Make sure the desired category is visible in the list.
If it isn’t, open the desired folders and scroll the list to make it visible.
2. Select the desired files and drag them to the desired category folder.
The files disappear from the list. Note:
• You can add a file to any level in the category “hierarchy”. For example, you
can make a file part of the “Instrument” category, without having to put it
into any of the subcategories (“Keyboards”, “String”, etc.).
• A file can only be in one category at a time.
Dragging a file to a category will remove it from any category it previously belonged to.