User Manual

WAVELAB
6 – 72 Editing in the Wave window
Opening dual mono files
If you have two mono files which are actually the left and right channels of
a stereo recording (some systems handle stereo this way), you can open
these as if they were a stereo file. Proceed as follows:
1. Open the Preferences from the Options menu, and click the File tab.
2. Make sure the option “Allow opening of dual mono files” is activated, and
close the dialog.
3. Select Open Wave from the File menu.
4. Select the first file, hold down [Ctrl] and select the other.
5. Click Open.
The two files are opened as one stereo file, with the file with the first name (alphabetically)
becoming the left channel. If this is not as desired, you can swap the channels, see “Swap-
ping channels in a stereo file” on page 111.
You can now work on the two files as if they were one. You can later save
them as a stereo file or as two mono files. See “File handling in Wave win-
dows” on page 113.
• You may want to deactivate the “Allow opening of dual mono files” option
when you’re done, to avoid accidentally opening two separate mono files as
a dual mono file.
Inserting a file into the current document
You may have a file that you want to insert into an existing file. The two
must have the same attributes (e.g. sample rate), or a warning will appear.
1. Locate the document into which you want to add material, and make it ac-
tive.
2. If you want to add the file at some arbitrary position in the document
(rather than at the beginning or end), click to move the wave cursor to that
position.
3. Pull down the Edit menu and select Insert Audio File and then one of the
options from the submenu that appears.
4. Select a file and click Open.
The file is added. If you used the “at cursor position” option, a temporary marker is added at
the insertion point.