Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Rearranging the order of the effect slots
The Function menu items “Move up” and “Move down” allow you to rear-
range the order of the effect slots. The effect order in a chain determines 
to a certain degree how the effects will affect each other. If you have se-
lected to use compression and reverb for example, the order decides 
whether compression affects the clip signal only (compressor used as Ef-
fect 1), or both the clip signal and the reverb signal (compressor...

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About the “Upper Track” output option
On the track pop-up menu you will find two items: “Route to Master Sec-
tion and upper track” and “Route to upper track only”. These items are re-
lated to the fact that WaveLab can host plug-ins that modulate audio with 
other audio (clip effects only). As an example of this, a plug-in called 
“Ducker” is included with the program. This is used for lowering the vol-
ume of one signal, whenever another signal is present. A typical...

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Managing effects in the Plug-ins view
The Plug-ins view allows you to overview and manage plug-in effects 
used in a Montage. The view is divided into two panes:
Right pane
•The right pane shows all plug-in slots currently used for either the focused 
track or the focused clip.
Which is shown is selected by clicking the “C” button (focused clip) or the “T” button 
(focused track) or by selecting the respective item on the Options menu.
•There are two columns; Plug-in...

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If you right-click on an effect in the Plug-in chain column, a pop-up opens 
with the following options:
Left pane
•The left pane shows all the available plug-ins in a tree list. 
Used plug-ins have a plus sign beside the name. Clicking the plus sign allows you to see 
exactly which clips or tracks are currently using the corresponding effect, and which slot 
each effect uses. For clip effects you can also see the clip start time in brackets.
Option Description
Find in...

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If you right-click on the plugin name, a pop-up opens with the following 
options:
If you right-click on the the clip or track name in the tree, a pop-up opens 
with the following options:
•You can also drag and drop plug-ins from the left pane to a slot in the 
right pane.
You can either drag a plug-in, or a clip or track plug-in instance, i.e. the plug-in and its cur-
rent preset. You can replace a slot, or insert into an empty slot this way. To insert it in be-
tween...

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To load a saved plug-in chain, proceed as follows:
1.Select the track or clip you wish to apply it to.
Plug-in chains can only be applied to the clip with selection focus (red name label).
2.If you wish to apply the chain to the focused clip, select “Show plugins of 
focused clip” (on the Options menu or click the “C” button). If you wish to 
apply the chain to the selected track, click the “Show plugins of focused 
track” (“T” button).
E.g. if a track is selected and a...

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The Meta Normalizer dialog
The Meta Normalizer settings dialog
Selecting the Meta Normalizer from the Edit view : Special menu opens a 
dialog where you can set up various options before applying the process-
ing. The dialog is divided into two pages; “Settings” and “Schedule”, which 
you can switch between by clicking on the appropriate tab at the top of the 
dialog. In the Settings dialog you specify how the clips will be processed, 
and in the Schedule dialog you set...

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The following options are available in the Meta Normalizer dialog:
Option Description
Equalize Clip Volume Selecting this will process all clips in the Montage according to 
the highest possible level or loudness found amongst the clips, so 
that they will all play back at equal levels.
Equalize peak level Select this option if you want to use peak levels as a basis for de-
termining what is considered “equal level” when executing Equal-
ize Clip Volume.
Equalize...

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Groups
In many situations, it is useful to work with several clips as one entity. This 
is easily done by grouping them in the Groups view.
Grouping clips
1.Select the clips you want to group.
2.Click the Groups tab to select the Groups view.
3.Select “Group selected Clips…” from the Groups view : Grouping menu, 
or click the Group icon.
4.Enter a name for the group in the dialog that appears and click OK.
The new group appears in the group list. All clips included in...

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Adding clips to an existing group 
If you already have a group, and want to add one or several clips to that 
group, this is done in the following way:
1.Select the clips you want to add.
2.In the Groups view, select “Group selected Clips” from the Grouping 
menu, or click the corresponding icon.
3.In the dialog that appears, select the group to which you want to add the 
clips.
4.Click OK. 
The clips are added to the group.
• If you want to create a new empty group, to...