Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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• Open the Audio Properties dialog from the Edit menu and make the desired set-
tings (see “Editing audio properties” on page 127).
• Open the Audio File Format dialog by selecting “Save as” on the File menu and 
clicking the Properties button in the lower section of the dialog (see “Saving in 
another format (Save as…)” on page 117).
Sample rate conversion is always applied to the entire file. Any selection 
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3.Open the Effect Morphing dialog from the Edit menu.
The dialog consists of a waveform display (that shows the current selection) with an envelope 
curve (currently a straight line) in the middle. By adding points to the envelope, you can create 
a curve that is used for the morphing process, see “Setting the Envelope” on page 214.
4.Make sure that “Unprocessed selection” is selected in the dialog.
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This can be done by positioning the two envelope points like in the picture 
below.
•If you now click “Apply”, the processing will create a perfectly linear tran-
sition between the processed and unprocessed audio.
It will start out 100% processed, gradually fading in the unprocessed audio (simultaneously 
fading out the processed audio at the same time) so that at the middle of the selection the 
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• The clipboard could also be a copy from another wave file, but the clipboard 
size and the selection size must match.
Setting the Envelope
By adding points to the envelope curve you can create an envelope curve 
that governs how the two audio ranges are mixed over the time line.
1.Double click on the envelope curve to add a point.
A point will be added where you click. 
2.If you click on the point it will be selected (red color) and by click-drag-
ging you can move...

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Support for reNOVAtor™
If this audio restoration plugin is installed on your system, you can select it 
from the Tools menu.
This menu option is enabled if a wave window is open and an audio selec-
tion is active (it can be both channels or a single channel). 
Selecting “reNOVAtor…” from the menu opens this plug-in and the active 
audio range is edited. The plug-in window is non-modal, hence you can 
work in WaveLab without closing the plug-in.
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Master Section 

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Introduction
The Master Section is the heart of WaveLab’s “Real-time Engine” and the 
final block in the signal path, before the audio is sent to the audio hard-
ware (or to an audio file on disk). This is where you adjust master levels, 
add effect processors and dither. 
The settings and processors in the Master Section are taken into account 
in the following cases:
• When playing back an audio file in a Wave window.
• When playing back an Audio Montage.
Note that the...

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The Master Section window
To open the Master Section window, you can either select it from the 
Specialized Windows submenu on the View menu, click the Master Sec-
tion button on the Window controller bar or press [Ctrl]-[F9].
• When you open the Master Section, active effect processor panels will also 
appear (if they haven’t been hidden).
To close the Master Section, select it from the menu again (or click the 
Master Section button again).
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Showing and hiding panes
You can independently hide the three Master Section panes in any com-
bination:
• Clicking on the Hide button for a pane will “fold” it, leaving only the pane title bar 
visible.
This is useful for saving screen space, if you e.g. don’t need to see the Dithering settings. 
Note that the red indicator for the pane will still be visible when the pane is hidden, allowing 
you to see at a glance whether effects, master volume or dithering are used or...