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
33 – 772 Plug-in Processor Reference
Tips and Tricks
• By combining Vintage Mode and extreme Threshold and DePlop settings, you
can create an interesting effect which “softens” material with particularly sharp at-
tacks, e.g. percussion or brass.
• If you have material with digital distortion (clipping), try applying DeClicker. While
it can’t do miracles, it can at least make some improvement to the overall “hard-
ness” introduced by the distortion.
DeNoiser
The DeNoiser plug-in lets you suppress noise without affecting the ge-
neral sound quality. Or, in tech talk, the DeNoiser removes broad band
noise from arbitrary audio material without leaving any “spectral finger
print”. The algorithm that this plug-in is based on has the ability to track
and adjust itself to variations in background noise. This means the noise
can be diminished without side effects, preserving the spatial impression,
and without letting the result become “colorless”. Many years of research
were invested in developing the methods used.
Typical applications for the DeNoiser include cleaning or remastering re-
cordings from old tape or vinyl, or noisy live recordings.
How DeNoiser works
DeNoiser is based on spectral subtraction. Each section of the frequency
spectrum that has an amplitude below the estimated noise floor, is re-
duced in intensity by use of a spectral expander. The result is a noise re-
duction that does not affect the phase of the signal.
Mode Which Mode to select depends on the source material. Standard mode
is suitable for a wide variety of source material - try this option first. Vin-
tage mode is suitable for restoring “antique” recordings (with limited
high frequency content), while Modern mode is best suited for contem-
porary recordings with a wide frequency range (putting greater empha-
sis on distinguishing clicks from other strong impulses in the audio
material).
Bypass This will bypass the effect, allowing you to compare the DeClicked and
unprocessed material.
Parameter Description