Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Stereo/mono “conflicts”
Stereo/mono is handled as follows when you drag between files:
Sample rate conflicts
If you copy or move audio from one window to another, and the sample 
rates of the two files are not the same, the copied/moved sound will play 
back at the wrong pitch (speed). The program will warn you if this is about 
to happen.
While mixing sample rates can sometimes be used as an effect, it is most 
often not desired. There are two ways to get...

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5.Select Paste from the Edit menu or press [Ctrl]-[V].
The material you copied is either inserted at the indicated point (no selection) or it replaces 
the current selection (if you have a selection).
Make a selection, and select Copy…
…click for an insertion point…
…and select Paste. The copied section is inserted at the cursor position.    

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Stereo/mono “conflicts”
Stereo/mono is handled as follows when you paste:
Moving audio
The following commands allow you to rearrange the “order” of the audio 
in a file.
By dragging
This is just like drag copying (see above). The only difference is that you 
hold down [Alt] and [Ctrl] while dragging to move audio. The material you 
dragged is removed from its original position and inserted where you drop 
it.
By using Cut and Paste
This is just like using Copy...

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By nudging
The Nudge left/right tools in the Toolbox (also known as “Kicker tools”) 
can be used to move the audio in small steps within a file.
1.Make a selection.
2.Click on the selection with one of the Nudge tools (depending on the di-
rection in which you want to move it).
The audio is moved one pixel (screen dot). Exactly how much this is depends on how far 
you are zoomed in. If for example the status bar says x1:256, the selection will be moved 
256...

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Other Paste operations
On the Paste Special menu you will find some additional options:
Overwrite
This will overwrite data in the destination file, rather than moving data to 
make room for the inserted audio. The actual amount that will be overwrit-
ten depends on the selection in the destination file:
• If there is no selection in the destination file, a section with the same length as the 
pasted data will be overwritten.
If there is a selection, the pasted...

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Trim
To remove all the audio except the current selection, select Trim from the 
Edit menu (or press [Ctrl]-[Backspace]).
Smooth Delete
This function is available from the Edit menu. It is similar to the standard 
“Delete” function, but in addition, a short crossfade is performed at the 
edges of the section to be deleted, allowing for a smoother audio transi-
tion. 
• The default length and shape of the crossfade is set in the Preferences–Wave 
edit tab. 
• If...

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Replace selection
If you intend to replace a specific range with silence, proceed as follows:
1.Make a selection that encompasses the range you wish to replace with si-
lence.
2.Select Silence from the Edit menu or press [Ctrl]+[Shift]-[Space].
This will open the Silence dialog – see below for descriptions of the options in the dialog.
3.In the dialog, set the Length to “As selection”, and the Mode to “Replace 
selection”.
•From here, you can select whether to...

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Silence dialog options
The Silence dialog contains the following options:
About the Ambience – Background noise option
In certain situations, completely muting the sound (True silence) will pro-
duce an undesirable result. This particularly applies to spoken word and 
field recordings, where a natural background ambience is often present. 
Inserting “True” silence can introduce a marked difference to the pas-
sages with voice dialog as opposed to the silenced...

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Replacing a section with silence – Fast mute
This is similar to Silence, but always replaces the selection and always 
applies “True” silence. There are four ways to replace a section of audio 
with silence:
• Select it and select Fast mute from the Edit menu.
• Select it and click the Fast mute icon on the Standard Commands control bar.
• Select it and press [Ctrl]-[Space].
• Select it and drag the selection to the Fast mute icon on the Standard Com-
mands...

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By dragging
1.Make a selection.
2.Drag the selection out to the WaveLab “desktop”.
3.When the pointer is outside the window, hold down [Ctrl] and release the 
mouse button.
By using menus
1.Make a mono selection.
2.Select “Convert to Stereo” from the “Copy to new window” menu on the 
Edit menu.
The selection appears in a new stereo window.
Converting from stereo to mono
You may mix the two channels in a stereo file into a mono document.
This can be done in three...