Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Rendering the Master Section processing
The selected region’s time range determines the range that will be ren-
dered. 
If you wish to apply the filtering to the whole file, you should use the “Se-
lect whole file length” option from the speed menu.
•If you click Render in the Master Section with the Spectrum selection tool 
selected, the rendering will take place without the Rendering preferences 
dialog opening.
It will “process in place” the selection according to the...

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Move region
upwardsMoves the selection up to start after its current end on the frequency 
axis.
Move region 
downwardsMoves the selection down to end before its current start on the fre-
quency axis.
Move region 
upwards 1 octaveMoves the selection up by 1 octave on the frequency axis.
Move region down-
wards 1 octaveMoves the selection down by 1 octave on the frequency axis.
Select until start of file Extends the region selection to the start of the file.
Select until...

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Batch processing 

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Introduction
Batch processing is an extension of the Master Section Render function 
(see “Rendering” on page 239). The big difference is that the Batch Pro-
cessor can work on any number of files, and process different files with 
different settings. However, it also allows you to do a few other things that 
are not available with the Render function:
• Have any number of processors applied.
• Use plug-ins not available in the Master Section, see “About the off-line...

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DC Remover –> Denoiser –> Normalizer (first instance) –> Compressor 
–> Normalizer (second instance) –> MPEG Compression
Of these effects, the DC Remover and the Normalizer(s) are Multi Pass 
effects. This means that the signal needs to pass each of these effects 
more than once – in this case twice, first for the effect to analyse the sig-
nal (gathering data for the processing) and then again for the actual pro-
cessing.
This is how WaveLab would handle the processing...

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During pass three, the signal is processed by the DC Remover, the first 
Normalizer, the Denoiser and Compressor and is analysed by the second 
Normalizer. Again, nothing is saved to disk, the only purpose of this pass 
is to gather information about how much normalization will be required.
Time for pass four. Now all information has been gathered so that all the 
real processing and disk writing can take place during one single pass.
Thanks to the unique WaveLab...

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Overview of the Window
The Batch Processor window
The window is divided into four tabs:
The Input tab
This is used to set up the files to process. Here you use various tools and 
functions to assemble lists of files and documents.
From the Input tab you can also open the process list, which allows you to 
specify exactly what type of processing should be performed on the files.
The Output tab
This is used to specify where the resulting files should be stored, how 
they...

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The Input tab – Assembling a list of files
The functions described in this section are also available on a speed menu 
(accessed by right-clicking in the file list).
Creating batches
You are not only able to process one batch of files, but many. Each batch 
contains a number of files, and all the files in a batch will be processed iden-
tically. However, each batch can use a totally different set of processors.
•To create a batch, click the button “Create batch folder”...

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Renaming and setting attributes for a batch
To rename a batch, proceed as follows:
1.Select the batch in the list and click on the name icon (the “A”).
Alternatively you can hold down [Alt] and double click directly on the batch.
2.Enter the desired name in the dialog.
Entering a number instead of a name has a special meaning. This will change the name of 
the batch to the default name “Batch X”, where X is the number you typed. All the other 
batches with default names...

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Note that this also works with documents in open Basic Audio CDs and Au-
dio Montages. This way you can add and batch process all files that “belong” 
to a Basic Audio CD or an Audio Montage.
Open documents are represented by blue and white miniature window 
icons.
You cannot process files that have never been saved (“Untitled” files). How-
ever, you can process files that have previously been saved, but are now 
open for editing.
Adding one or more files via a dialog...