Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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The Objects menu
The Objects menu can be selected from the toolbar, or opened by right-
clicking an object (speed menu). The items on the Objects menu are 
greyed out if no object is selected. 
If one object is selected, the following Object menu items are available:
Item Description
Edit properties… See “About the Edit Properties dialog” on page 610.
Edit position and size… See “Positioning objects” on page 609.
Edit display condition This allows you to decide whether an...

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If several objects are selected when opening the Objects menu, the fol-
lowing additional items are available:
About label sets
You can save as many label sets as you like for a project. However, when-
ever you open the Label Editor by selecting the “Create Label” menu item, 
a new label set opens which is untitled and only contains the auto-gener-
ated data.
Whenever you have edited layouts in the Label Editor, you will be asked 
to save it as a label set if you close...

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• Saved label sets (with the extension *.lab) contain all the layout work per-
formed in the Label Editor.
It is, however, not dynamic. This means that if you have added to or changed the CD 
Project, Audio Montage, etc. in any way after saving a label set, these changes will not be 
reflected in the saved label set, unless you save it as a user template (see below).
Saving a label set
To save a label set, select “Save” or “Save As…” from the File menu with 
the Label...

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Defining user variables
If you have reached this section via a cross-reference from the CD report 
section in the Audio Montage chapter, please note that the information ap-
plies equally to CD reports, although the text is written specifically for labels.
Apart from the auto-generated data such as media information, date and 
time, etc., you can define a number of user editable variables that are local 
to the project you are working on. Once you have defined a set of...

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3.To define a value for a default variable, for example copyright or personal 
information, double-click in the Current Value column for the relevant de-
scription.
A text box opens where you can type in the relevant information.
4.Click OK when done.
Creating new variables
You can create new variables and define values for them. The new vari-
able will automatically be put in the currently selected folder (or in the 
folder with a currently selected variable). Proceed as...

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Exporting text variables in ASCII
This option opens the current text variables as an ASCII text document in 
a tabulated format, suitable for editing in a spreadsheet application such 
as Excel.
Where this menu item is located depends on the type of project; for Au-
dio Montages and Backup Plans it is on the Functions menu, and for CD 
Projects it is on the CD menu.
Printing labels
You print your labels directly from the Label Editor, either on standard pa-
per or on...

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Printing
Printing is done independently for the three label types. However, there 
are two settings that are global for all three label types:
1.Pull down the Options pop-up menu and select “Preferences”.
The “Label editor preferences” dialog appears.
2.Use the “Printing” checkboxes to determine whether the frames around 
the labels should be printed, and whether cut markers should be printed 
(making it easier to cut out the labels from the printed paper).
Now, you are...

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Analysis 

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Global analysis
Introduction
What does the “Global analysis” dialog do?
This dialog allows you to perform advanced analysis on your audio to find 
certain areas with specified properties. It can be used to find problem 
areas (glitches, distortion), etc., or to check general information such as 
the pitch of a sound.
How does it work?
When you analyse a section of an audio file, the program scans it and 
extracts overall information which it displays in the dialog.
However,...