Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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•File header: Genre –If the audio file is associated with Genre information 
(meta-data, such as ID3), it is inserted. 
You can also insert a prefix and suffix.
•Time line position (for clips and markers only) – This allows you to insert 
the time line position. The time format is the same as the one defined for 
the time ruler of the window where the clips/markers are located. 
You can also insert a prefix and suffix.
•Line X from text file – You can specify a text file...

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Common expressions
A regular expression is a formula composed of characters that have spe-
cial meanings (called “operators”). Other characters are just plain letters 
and numbers that are searched for. The search engine browses the target 
text one character at a time and stops as soon as it finds a sequence of 
characters that matches the regular expression. Searches are not case-
sensitive.
Note that there are various versions of regular expressions. WaveLab 
uses a...

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Character not in range [^] A circumflex located at the first position in a bracket is a 
complement operator. In other words, all characters 
match but those included in the bracket. Example: [^E] 
means any character but E.
/ A slash before a character means that this character is 
treated literally, not as an operator anymore.
0 or 1 match 
(1 if possible)? Matches 0 or 1 time the preceding expression. 1 repeat 
if possible is grabbed, then the rest of the regular ex-...

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The Shortcuts submenu on the Regular Expression pop-up menu con-
tains the following options:
All special characters used for regular expressions are available from the 
“Special characters” submenu. 
There is also a Presets sub-menu with pre-defined operations. The items 
on this sub-menu are as follows:
End of text $ Put this sign to specify that the sought-after text MUST 
be located at the end of the text. Any match not located 
at the end of the text is ignored.
Menu...

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Last expression
in parenthesesThis searches for the last string enclosed in parentheses.
1st/2nd/3rd expression
in brackets.This searches for the first, second or third string enclosed in 
brackets, respectively.
Last expression in brackets This searches for the last string enclosed in brackets. Menu item  Description 

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Markers 

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Introduction
What are markers for?
Markers allow you to save and name certain positions in a file. You can 
use these positions later on in various ways:
• Set the wave cursor to a marker.
• Select all audio between two markers.
• Define CD tracks according to markers.
• Loop the section between two markers, etc.
There is no limit to the amount of markers you can have in a file.
This chapter describes how to use markers in Wave windows. 
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The various marker types
The following marker types are available:
About marker pairs
Four of the marker types come in pairs: CD, Loop, Mute and Region.
Since you can’t have a CD track that starts but never ends, a loop end 
point without a start, etc., special rules exist for creating, deleting and 
moving these types of markers.
• CD track markers must always be “balanced”.
For example, if you delete a track start, the corresponding end marker will also be deleted, 
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About importing and saving loop markers
There are a few points to be aware of when importing files with loops into 
WaveLab. This is because the loops can be defined in two places: Wave 
and AIFF file formats have the ability to contain loop points, and WaveLab 
stores loop points as markers separately for each file, in “.MRK” files. So, 
there’s a potential risk for conflict:
• When you import a file that has never been used in  WaveLab before, and which 
contains loops, the...