Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Creating markers
Dropping markers on the fly
To add a marker on the fly, proceed as follows:
1.Play back the file.
2.When the cursor reaches the position where you want a marker, do one 
of the following:
•Press [Insert].
•Click the Drop marker button on the Marker toolbar.
•Select Drop Marker from the time ruler speed menu.
You can give the marker a proper name later.
• The markers dropped this way are generic.
Creating a marker from “stop mode”
1.Set the wave cursor to where...

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Dropping markers while recording
You can drop markers during a recording. For example, if you are audition-
ing some material while transferring it from DAT tape to WaveLab, you can 
add markers at important positions, as they are coming up. The marker 
types you can add are: Generic, Region start and Region end. See “About 
dropping markers during recording” on page 153.
Creating marker pairs from the Marker toolbar
To create a loop, a mute region or a region (see later in this...

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Marker appearance and visibility
Hiding marker heads
To hide/display the marker triangles from the ruler, click with the right 
mouse button in the ruler and select Hide/Show Marker Heads.
Changing the appearance of marker lines
To hide the marker lines in the waveform, click with the right mouse button 
in the waveform and select Elements. From the menu that appears, set 
things up so that neither Solid markers, nor Dotted markers are activated.
Hiding all markers of a certain...

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Editing, converting and naming markers
The New Marker window can also be used to change existing marker’s 
properties. There are several ways to open this window with settings for a 
certain marker:
• Right click on the marker in the time ruler and choose “Edit Marker” from the menu 
that appears. 
• Hold down [Alt] and double click on the marker.
• Open the marker list, select a marker and click with the right mouse button on a 
marker and select Edit or press [Return].
To...

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•To lock the position of a marker so that it can’t be moved, activate the 
Lock Position option.
•If the marker is a loop end marker you can change the number of loop rep-
etitions by unchecking Infinite and specifying your own number of loops.
• You can also use the Batch Renaming function to rename markers – see 
“Batch renaming” on page 307.
There are also two ways to convert several markers to another type in one 
go:
• By using the “Convert marker type” dialog – see below.
•...

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•For wave files, the dialog is opened by right-clicking the time ruler and se-
lecting “Convert marker type…” from the menu.
•For Montages, the dialog is opened from the Marker tab : Functions menu.
The dialog contains the following items:
Moving and duplicating markers
To move a marker, press the mouse button over the triangle “Head” and 
drag to the new position.
• If “Magnetize bounds” is activated (see “Dropping on markers (Magnetize 
bounds)” on page 339) the marker “snaps”...

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Deleting markers
When you delete one marker in a marker pair, the other marker will also be 
deleted.
Deleting one marker from the Wave window
1.To delete a marker in the Wave window, click with the right mouse button 
on the head of marker you want to delete/rename.
2.Select Delete.
Alternatively you can drag the marker out of the window.
Deleting in the marker list
1.Hold down [Ctrl] and double click in the ruler.
The wave markers window appears.
2.Click with the right mouse...

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Operations involving markers
Setting the wave cursor to a marker position
To move the wave cursor to a certain marker, do one of the following:
•Double click on the marker triangle.
This is probably the most convenient option if the marker is currently visible in the window. 
This even works during playback!
•Open the marker list and select one of the markers on it.
This is probably the most convenient option if the marker is outside the current view.
•Activate “Magnetize bounds”...

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You can extend the selection to consecutive markers, by continuing to 
drag to the left/right.
To select all audio between any two markers, double click just to the right 
of the leftmost one, hold down [Shift] and double click just to the left of 
the rightmost one. 
Dropping on markers (Magnetize bounds)
For any operation involving drag and drop of audio material you can use a 
marker position as start point for the section you drop. This is useful when 
it is very important...

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3.Make sure the marker line and the drag line appear on top of each other, 
then release the mouse button.
Creating CD tracks
All operations related to CD markers are described in the section “Pre-
paring a Basic Audio CD” on page 347.
Looping
Loop markers are primarily intended for transfer to samplers as described 
in the section “Using samplers and creating loops” on page 657, but you 
can use loop markers in various additional ways:
•Set up a loop and repeat it indefinitely...