Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Markers
You can rename markers of any type both for audio files and for Montages.
•For Montages, select “Batch marker renaming” from the Marker tab – 
Functions menu. 
•For audio files, “Batch marker renaming” is available from the Marker 
speed menu (right-click the time ruler).
The options are the same in both cases:
Option Description
All Markers This will apply the renaming to all markers in the Montage.
All Markers in se-
lected audio rangeThis will apply the renaming...

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Renaming operations
Basics
When you have set up what files/clips/markers to rename, click “Next” in 
the Rename dialog to open the second page. Here you can define an un-
limited number of operations to perform on a name. This allows you to 
transform an existing name or create a new one from scratch. 
In the “Operations” section of the dialog, you set up and add operations 
to perform. 
1.To add a new operation, click the “+” button. 
This creates a “Insert nothing”...

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Each operation is associated with specific parameters. When you select 
a new operation of a certain category, the available options on the Type 
pop-up change. Depending on the selected operation new parameters 
may appear below the pop-ups. Each operation is explained later in this 
chapter.
3.You can continue to add as many operations as you like which will be 
added to the list in the top right corner of the dialog.
•Operations are executed in the order they appear in...

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Range parameters
A common concept to all the operations, is “where in the name” the oper-
ation is executed. The range relates to the name that will be processed by 
the current operation. If the first operation adds a counter, the range of 
the second operation (if any), can be different.
For example, if you want to remove certain characters, you have to define 
“where” in the name this should take place. This is set using the “Range” 
parameters. There are 2 types of...

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Range: From/To
When “Other” is selected, the parameters in the From/To sections be-
come available. 
The following parameters are available in the “From” section:
•Start – The start of the text.
•Character position – This allows you to set a number starting from 0 and 
upwards to perform an operation on a fixed position in the text.
•Start of regular expression – You define a regular expression in the text 
field below, and the range will start at the beginning of the...

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Operations
The following operations are available from the two pop-ups in the Oper-
ations section of the dialog. The upper pop-up selects the category, the 
lower the type. Below, all the operation types available for each category 
are listed.
Remove category
•All – This operation removes all characters in the selected range. 
This can be useful as a start operation if you want to create a new name from scratch.
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•Specific character to text – The selected range is searched for a given 
character, and all occurrences of this character are replaced by a speci-
fied text.
Specify the character to replace in the left text field. In the “Replacement” text field you 
specify what the removed character will be replaced with; this can be a single character or 
a text string.
•Normalize number with zeros – The selected range has to contain a num-
ber. This number is then padded with zeros...

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•Pair of characters around text – The selected range will be preceded by a 
specific character, and followed by another character. 
Useful e.g. to put parentheses around a part.
•Space around text – Inserts a space character before and after the se-
lected range.
•Space after specific characters – You specify a list of characters, then 
WaveLab will search for these characters in the selected range and insert 
a space after each one it finds. 
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•Find exact text – Replacing only happens if the selected range exactly 
matches a word in the table.
As an example, let’s say you have a series of drum samples where the 
term “Darksnare” is the common part of the name, and you would like to 
change all these to “Ambientsnare”.
If you have specified “Dark” as a match and “Ambient” as the replace-
ment, it would work fine if “Find anywhere in text” was selected, but not if 
“Find exact text” was specified.
Lastly, two...

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•Bit rate – This will insert the bit rate in the name(s) according to the se-
lected Range.
You can select various ways to express the current bit rate from the Format pop-up. You 
can also insert a prefix and suffix in the corresponding fields.
•VBR – If the audio file is compressed using a variable bit rate method the 
text “VBR” is inserted in the name.
You can also insert a prefix and suffix in the corresponding fields.
•File length – A time value is inserted in case...