Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Selecting an output for an audio track
This relates to multichannel operation – see “Assigning tracks to output 
channels” on page 510.
Moving tracks
To move a track up or down in the Track View, proceed as follows:
1.Click on the track number button for the track that you want to move.
The track pop-up menu appears.
2.Select “Move track up” or “Move track down”.
Deleting tracks
To remove unwanted tracks, proceed as follows:
1.Click on the track number button for the...

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Folding tracks
To save screen space, you can fold tracks that you don’t need to have vis-
ible. This is done by clicking the arrow button at the top left corner of the 
Track Control area.
Click on the arrow…
…to fold the track.
To unfold a folded track, just click on the button again, or double click 
anywhere in the folded track.
Half height tracks
Another way to save screen space is to bring up the track pop-up menu 
for a track and selecting “Half height”. The...

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A clip is created, named after the original audio file. You can change the 
name of clips in the Audio Montage, as described in the section “The col-
umns” on page 439.
• This method can also be used for dragging selection ranges (see “Selection 
ranges” on page 413) from another (or the same) Montage.
The dragged range will become a separate clip.
• If you want to drag the whole audio file from the Wave window to the Audio Mon-
tage, you don’t need to make a selection...

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Once you have added the desired clips from an audio file, you don’t need to 
have the original Wave window open. Should you need to edit the original 
(source) audio file, you can access it from the clip speed menu, as described 
in the section “Editing source files” on page 442 (any editing done to the 
source audio file is immediately reflected in all clips referring to the file).
By dragging from the Files view
This way, you can add clips without having Wave windows...

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3.Select the audio file containing the regions in the middle pane.
Now any defined CD/DVD Track, Loop, Mute or Region Start/End markers in the audio file 
are shown in the right pane.
4.Now you can drag any region into the Montage.
When you drop the region, a pop-up menu appears, allowing you to select one of the Insert 
options – see “The Insert options” on page 388. You can only drag one region at a time us-
ing this method.
By importing files
1.In the Track View,...

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By copying clips from another Montage
If you have more than one Montage open, you can copy clips from one 
Montage to another. This can be done either by using drag and drop 
(from the clip list or the Track View) or by using Copy and Paste. You can 
also use this method to copy clips within the same Montage.
When dragging or selecting clips in the Track View, you need to click at the 
appropriate mouse zone, as explained in the section “About the mouse 
zones (audio...

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Loading saved clips
As usual, you need to select a stereo track for stereo clips and a mono 
track for mono clips.
1.In the Montage, place the cursor where you would like to insert the clip(s).
2.Right-click the target track and select “Insert clip file(s)…” from the clip 
speed menu.
You can also select this from the Clips view : File menu.
3.In the file dialog, locate and select the clip(s) you want to load.
4.Click Open.
The clip(s) are inserted on the selected...

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The Insert options
Single clip
When you add a single clip to the Montage (by pasting, importing from 
disk or using drag and drop), a pop-up menu appears. By selecting one of 
the menu items, you specify how the clip should be inserted, whether ex-
isting clips should be affected or not, etc.
Option Description
Add/Mix The clip is inserted without affecting any clips that already exist on 
the destination track. The exception is if an inserted audio clip par-
tially...

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Replace selected range Only available if there is a selection range on the destination track. 
The clip with the selection range will be split at the selection range 
edges, the inserted clip will replace the range and the section to the 
right of the range is moved to the left or right (depending on the 
length of the inserted clip vs. the length of the selection range), so 
that there is no gap after the inserted clip.
Replace selected range 
(trim source...

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Multiple clips
When you add several audio clips to the Montage (by importing from disk 
or using drag and drop), the Insert audio files dialog appears. 
In this dialog you can:
• Select files in the list by clicking on them.
• Change the order of the files by clicking the green arrow buttons or by using drag 
and drop in the list.
• Add files to the list by clicking the green plus sign.
• Remove files from the list by clicking the red cross sign.
• Specify how the clips...