Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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The Audio Montage 

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Introduction
The Audio Montage is a multichannel and multi-track non-destructive 
editing environment, which allows you to arrange, edit, play back and 
record audio clips on multiple tracks and channels. Features include both 
track- and clip-based effects, volume and pan automation, wide-ranging 
fade and crossfade functions and synchronization to MIDI Time Code. 
Multichannel support makes it possible to create surround mixes that can 
be burned to DVD-Audio...

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The Audio Montage window
About the two panes and the views
The Audio Montage window is divided into two “panes”. The lower pane 
always shows the tracks and the clips, while the upper pane shows one of 
12 views, as listed below.
•You can resize the upper and lower panes by dragging the divider between 
the panes up or down.
•You can choose to view the upper pane or the Track View only, by selecting 
“Show tabs only” or “Show Tracks only” from the main View menu.
To...

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The following views are available:
View Key Description
Edit E This is where you configure how many audio channels you wish to use in 
the Montage (see “Multichannel operation in the Montage” on page 
506), and where you select one of two basic operational modes; CD or 
DVD-A (from the Mode menu). This is also where you find various op-
tions for zooming, editing, fading, selecting, etc.
Zoom Z Displays a very detailed view of the focused clip’s fade-in area, for fine...

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•If the Montage window is too narrow to show all tabs, two arrow buttons 
are displayed in the upper right corner of the window.
Use these to “move” the row of tabs so that you can see and click the one you want.
About naming
Most of the views contain one or several menus. To make it clear which 
menu is meant in each case, we use the following syntax:
•X view : Y menu
For example, “Edit view : Options menu” means the Options menu in the 
Edit view.
The info line
The...

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Info line symbols
The following symbols are used in the info line (the symbols for [Shift], [Ctrl] 
and [Alt] may differ depending on the language selected for WaveLab):
In this example, the info line indicates that you can open the envelope speed menu by 
right-clicking, you can click and drag up or down to change the envelope level or double 
click to add a point. Holding down [Alt], [Ctrl] or [Shift], will enable additional functions. Symbol Description
Indicates...

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The ruler
At the top of the Track View in the Audio Montage window, there is a ruler, 
similar to that in the Wave window. To change the ruler format, right-click in 
the ruler and make a selection from the pop-up menu that appears.
Selecting Meter format on the ruler pop-up menu
• Depending on the selected format, you can make detailed display settings by se-
lecting “Time format…” from this pop-up menu.
• It is also possible to offset the ruler, so that “zero” is...

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Assembling the Montage
Creating a new Montage
1.Pull down the File menu and open the New submenu.
2.Select the “Audio Montage…” item.
The Sample rate dialog appears.
3.Specify the preferred sample rate.
The audio files that you want to use in the Montage must have this sample rate. 
If you plan to burn a CD from the Audio Montage, you have to select the 
44.1 kHz sample rate.
4.Click OK.
A new Audio Montage window appears, containing one stereo track.
If you have saved...

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• You can create a Montage from a Wave file with the Auto Split function.
See “The Auto Split dialog” on page 342.
• By opening a Wave file and selecting “Create Audio Montage from Wave” on the 
Edit menu.
This option is also available in the Open – Wave dialog (File menu).
• By importing an AES-31 project file.
You can for example export a complete Nuendo project as an AES-31 file, and import this 
into WaveLab, where a Montage containing all the tracks and files of...

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Handling tracks
Creating and managing tracks is done in the area to the left of the tracks 
in the Track View (from now on called the Track Control area). In the mid-
dle of this area is a button with the number of the track. Clicking this but-
ton brings up the track pop-up menu, which contains most of the track 
functions.
Adding tracks
There are four different track types available in the Montage: audio, video 
(see “Using video tracks” on page 504), DVD-A picture...