Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Do not move the loop points after performing the processing! The wave-
form has been processed specifically for the current loop settings!
About the end of the loop – Post-crossfading
After using the Loop Tone Equalizer, the transition from the end of the 
loop to the end of the file in many cases won’t be very natural. This can be 
fixed as follows:
1.Close the Loop Tone Equalizer and open the Crossfade Looper.
2.Click on the Crossfade tab and...

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Audio Databases 

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What is an Audio Database and why do I need it?
Audio Databases are collections of audio files. However, an Audio 
Database doesn’t really contain the actual files, rather it contains instruc-
tions on where the files are, what they are called, etc.
The files in an Audio Database can be located on any of the media con-
nected to your computer, e.g. hard disks, removable disks, CD-ROM disks 
and even floppies. For example, if you use an Audio Database to call up a 
wave...

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Creating and opening Audio Databases
Creating an empty Audio Database
There are two ways to create a new empty Audio Database:
• Pull down the File menu, select New, and from the menu that appears, se-
lect Audio Database, or…
• Click on the New icon on the control bar, and select Audio Database from 
the menu that appears.
Either way, a dialog appears, allowing you to specify a name and location for the new Audio 
Database.
Opening an existing Audio Database
Audio...

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Window overview and adjustments
About the panes
The Audio Database window is divided into the Location Pane, the Cate-
gory Pane and the File List. Their sizes can be adjusted, see “Panes” on 
page 51.
• The Location pane shows volumes, folders and subfolders as on your hard disks. 
To be precise, it shows all folders containing files that are in the Audio Database.
• The Category pane lists all the categories which are used to “classify” and orga-
nize the sounds in the...

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Adding files to the Audio Database
There are several ways to add files to a Database:
Using Add
1.Select Add from the Audio Database menu.
You can also press the right mouse button in the Location pane and select Add from the 
menu that appears.
2.Select all files you want to open (for example using [Shift] and [Ctrl]) and 
click Open.
The files appear in the List. Also, folders are added to the Location pane. These correspond 
to the real folders that the files are in,...

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For example it might have to…
• have a name containing the text “piano”
• be in stereo
• be smaller than one megabyte.
You can of course set up any of the tabs so that all files meet the criteria 
in this particular tab. For example you can add files based only on their 
naming or only on their format.
4.If at some point you need to reset the settings in all three tabs to default 
values, click Reset.
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• To search for multiple text strings, separate words with spaces on the 
Query line.
The result depends on the “Search mode” options:
For example, if you type “piano grand” and specify an “OR” search in file 
names, the following files will be “found”:
• piano
• PIANO
• pianola
• The best piano you have ever heard
• grand funk
• grand piano
• GRANDMA
But you will not “find” the files:
• pianissimo
• pia no way!
If instead you performed an AND search with the same words...

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The Format tab
This allows you to add files based on the file format. You may activate 
multiple options in each section in order to add files of different catego-
ries (e.g. both mono and stereo files). Background information on the dif-
ferent attributes in this dialog can be found in the section “Editing 
attributes and getting information” on page 127.
The Date & Size tab