Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Setting up your sampler(s)
The following text assumes you have made all connections as described 
in the installation chapter. Proceed as follows:
Making the basic settings
1.Make sure the sampler is turned on.
If you use SCSI it must have been turned on when you booted the computer.
2.Select “Sampler configurations…” from the Sampling menu.
The “Sampler configurations” dialog
3.Click on the Settings tab.
4.Select the desired communications protocol from...

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5.If the sampler is connected via SCSI, pull down the SCSI Unit pop-up 
and select the instrument you want to communicate with.
If the instrument can’t be found on this menu, there is something wrong with your SCSI con-
nection. Go back and check the instructions in the section “SCSI connections” on page 31.
The SCSI Unit pop-up
If you ever change the SCSI ID for the sampler, you need to update the pre-
set. Otherwise, sampler communication won’t work....

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Transmitting samples
1.If needed, open the sample in a Wave window and trim it to the desired 
length.
Since samplers are RAM based, this may limit the amount of data you can transmit.
2.Add one or two loops as desired (see “Basic looping” on page 669).
3.Pull down the Sampling menu and select “Transmit…”.
4.Select the target sampler from the Target menu.
This menu lists all samplers for which you have created presets. The sampler will be on the 
list...

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Receiving samples
1.Pull down the Sampling menu and select “Receive…”.
2.Select the desired sampler from the Target menu.
As with Transmit, this menu lists the samplers for which you have created presets.
3.If the protocol used for this sampler identifies samples by number, use the 
“Sample number” setting to specify which sample to retrieve.
4.If the sampler uses names and/or banks, click the Refresh button to get a 
list of the current memory contents...

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The Transmit Back feature
A common working procedure would be to receive a sample from the 
sampler, process it in WaveLab and then transmit it back to the sampler. 
The “Transmit Back” feature facilitates this. It is a variation on the Transmit 
function. The difference is that it automatically sends the sample to the 
same memory location from which it originally came, without presenting 
any dialog.
Proceed as follows:
1.Receive a sample from the...

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Using WaveLab with Steinberg HALion
If you are the lucky owner of Steinberg’s HALion software sampler, you 
can use WaveLab as your sample editor. You can add samples by drag-
ging audio file selections from WaveLab onto the HALion Key Zone Editor 
or by using copy and paste. It is also possible to transfer multiple samples 
from WaveLab to HALion in one go, using the following procedure:
1.Open and set up the audio files in WaveLab.
You may for example...

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Editing sample attributes
The “Sample attributes” dialog.
This menu item on the Sampling menu allows you to make settings for a 
sample. They do not process the sample in any way, they just give it prop-
erties that the receiving sampler may or may not take advantage of. 
See “About the various communication methods” on page 658.
Setting Description
Name The name the sample will have in the sampler. If the sample is an already 
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Depending on your sampler and the protocol you use for communicating, 
the above features may or may not be supported. For example, SDS and 
SMDI do not support names. SMDI supports Key and Detune whereas 
SDS does not.
Detect from 
audio selectionIf you click this button, WaveLab will analyse the sample and determine 
its pitch and amount of detune. For this to work properly, the sample 
must be of such a nature that it is possible to clearly detect a...

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Basic looping
Instrumental sounds in samplers rely heavily on looping. Looping a sound 
allows you to repeat a section of the sample indefinitely, to 
create a sus-
tain of unlimited length. An example of this would be an organ sound. 
Without looping you will only be able to play notes as 
long as the original 
recording. With looping, notes can be of any length.
Finding a good loop point takes a bit of practice. Here is some advice:
• There are only...

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Here is a brief description on how to create a basic loop:
1.Make a selection that corresponds to the area you want looped.
If you like, you can play back with “Loop selection” activated on the Transport bar and ad-
just the selection during playback.
2.Bring up the Marker toolbar.
3.Click on the loop marker icons (the green ones).
The selection is now enclosed by loop markers.
4.Make sure that “Loop as marked” is activated on the Transport bar.
Click...