User Manual

WAVELAB
Audio Databases 29 – 705
Changing the default categories and keywords
To change the category hierarchy and keyword lists that appear in new
Audio Databases, proceed as follows:
1. Make copies of the files “categ.txt” and “keywords.txt”.
These are located in the WaveLab program folder, in the Presets–Misc subfolder. You
might for example name the copies “categ.bak” and “keywords.bak”.
2. Launch a regular text editor.
One of those included with Windows will work fine.
3. To Edit the categories, open the file “categ.txt”. To edit the keywords,
open “keywords.txt”.
Note how the files are structured:
• Each level in the hierarchy begins with the name. After this, the sub items within
this level are listed inside curly brackets (“{” and “}”). For example, in the “categ”
file you will note a section that begins with the word “Keyboards” followed by a
left bracket on the next line. This category (“Keyboards”) does not end until after
the word “Harpsichord”, since on the line below that, a corresponding right
bracket appears.
• Within each level you will in many cases find sublevels, also enclosed in curly brack-
ets. (In programmer speak, this is referred to as nested structure). In the “Keyboard”
example, the sublevels are “Organ”, “Piano”, “Synth”, “Celesta”, “Clavinet” and
“Harpsichord”. The first three of these contain their own subcategories.
4. Change the structure, rename, add and remove items as desired.
Make sure that each left bracket is “balanced” by a right bracket ending the
“level”!
5. Save the file under the same name in the same location.
If something goes wrong, delete the files you have created and rename
the backup files to the original names. This will give you back the initial
settings.