Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Audio Input
The Audio Input is a special Master Section plug-in that allows you to ren-
der a signal coming in to a sound card’s input(s) together with any Master 
Section effects. This signal can be anything your sound card accepts, for 
example a feed from a mixer, a tape recorder or a microphone. An ASIO 
driver is required to use Audio Input.
You set it up as follows:
The first step is to designate which ASIO inputs should be used. This is 
done in the...

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6.Click the Render button.
A dialog appears allowing you to select a name, an audio format and a location for the file to 
be rendered.
7.When you click OK, recording (or rendering) starts, recording the external 
input from the output of the Master Section, including all real-time pro-
cessing.
You can monitor the recording as it happens.
8.Click Stop on the transport to stop the recording/rendering.
Using External effects
The External Gear Master Section plug-in allows...

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To use the External gear plug-in, proceed as follows:
The first step is to designate which ASIO channels should be used. 
1.Open the Preferences–Audio device tab:
2.Click the “Connections…” button to open the ASIO Audio Connections 
dialog.
3.In the “External gear connections” section you can activate the output 
channels you wish to send to the external gear inputs in the “ASIO out-
puts (to gear)” section, and which input channels the effect processor 
outputs should be...

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11
Spectrum Editor 

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Introduction
The Spectrum editor is powerful audio restoration and processing tool 
set, using high quality linear-phase filters to process a spectrum selection 
both in the time and in the frequency domain.
There are two main operational modes:
•Surgical processing (offline processing).
This is intended for audio restoration purposes applied to short time ranges. See “Surgical 
processing” on page 262.
•Master Section processing.
This allows you to process a specific...

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There are two ways to select Spectrum display mode:
•By clicking the arrow button in the lower right corner of the main view, and 
selecting “Spectrum” from the pop-up menu that appears.
•By selecting the Spectrum selection tool in the Tools control bar.
This automatically switches the display mode to Spectrum in the main view and also opens 
the Spectrum editor dialog.    

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The Spectrum display is a “spectrogram”, where each vertical line repre-
sents the frequency spectrum at the corresponding time location. The 
bottom of the display corresponds to the lower frequencies while the up-
per part of the display represents the higher frequencies. 
The intensity or level of the frequencies are either represented as a color 
spectrum, from red (maximum intensity) to purple/black (minimum inten-
sity), or as a monochrome intensity (depending on...

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About the Spectrum options
The Spectrum options dialog allows you to define how the frequency 
spectrum should be displayed. 
•You open the dialog by clicking the arrow button in the lower right corner of 
the main view, and selecting “Spectrum options…” from the pop-up menu.
The dialog contains the following items:
Option Description
Style Use this to specify whether the Spectrum should be displayed in color or in 
one of two grayscale modes.
Logarithmic 
frequency...

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Defining a region
All Spectrum editing functions are applied to (or from, if Master Section 
processing is used) a selected region. A region set in the Spectrum editor 
contains a time range (horizontal axis) and a frequency range (vertical axis). 
Before you start, it is a good idea to decide where in the file’s time range 
you would like to apply Spectrum editing. Then set it up so that the view is 
zoomed in on this range, and maybe also define this range with markers....