Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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This tab allows you to specify two things:
• Whether the “Modified” date of the file should be included in the search criteria. 
• Whether the size of the file should be included in the search criteria .
Using presets
You can create presets for this dialog, just as with processing. See “Pre-
sets” on page 65.
Adding more files
You can keep on using the Add and Scan folder options as many times as 
you wish. The new files will be added to the existing ones in the list, and...

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Limitations
• Windows puts a limitation on how many files can actually be shown in the File List 
at one time (roughly 1500).
• Normally you don’t want too many files in the list anyway, since it only makes it 
harder to organize them and some Audio Database operations will take longer to 
finish. Use the “Maximum size of result list” setting in the Preferences–Audio Da-
tabase tab to set a limit on how many files will be added in one go.
• If you have specified a limit,...

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Displaying all the files in the Audio Database
Later you will learn more about how to decide which files get displayed in 
the File List, but for now if you just want to display all files in the Audio Da-
tabase, proceed as follows:
1.Select Global Find from the Audio Database menu, and click the Preset 
tab.
2.Select the “All audio files” preset and click Load.
3.Click Search.
Customizing the File List
As with other similar lists in the program, you can customize the...

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Finding out where files are located
If you want to find out in which folder a certain file is located, right-click it 
in the list and select “Show folders” from the menu that appears (or press 
[Alt] and click on the file name or wave icon in the list). Either way, the 
folder is highlighted in the Location pane (as is the file’s category – see 
“Checking to which category a file belongs” on page 701).
Opening a file for editing
To open one or more files in a wave...

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Other file operations
Setting properties
To set the properties of one or more files, select the file(s), right-click any-
where in the list except on a file name, and select “Properties…” from the 
menu that appears.
The Properties dialog
• Please note that you can assign the same keyword(s) and comments to 
several files in one go, by selecting them and then selecting Properties.
Name
This is the file’s regular name including the file type extension. Changing 
this is...

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Keywords
This allows you to specify characteristics for the file that you can use later 
in a search operation. This feature works in addition to the category fea-
ture. It can be thought of as a more advanced extension to the category 
function. If you find that using categories serves all your 
needs for classi-
fication of the files, you do not need to use this feature.
To add keywords to the file(s), type in each keyword, separated by semi-
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Rename
If you want to rename the file, proceed as follows.
1.Right-click on the file and select “Rename…” from the pop-up menu.
If the file is not on any of the disks currently “in the computer”, you will be prompted for the 
required disk.
2.Type in the new name and press [Return]. Do not specify an extension, 
only the actual file name.
If you need to modify the extension, use the Properties dialog, see “Setting properties” on 
page 695.
This operation permanently...

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Import file attributes
This function, available on the Database main menu, allows you to import 
keywords and comments from a text file. 
Let’s say you have a CD full of audio files and a text file describing these 
files. You would first scan the CD to reference all the audio files. You can 
then use this function to import the related attributes. This function can 
also be used if you need to migrate a database with a different format to 
WaveLab.
When you first select...

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Working with categories
Categories allow you to organize your files according to type or context 
rather than names or location on the hard disk.
For example, this allows you to display all bass drums on all your hard 
disks, removables and CD-ROMs with one simple click!
About the category folder list
The Category pane contains a number of folder symbols. These all repre-
sent categories and subcategories. For example, there is an “Instrument” 
category, which contains a...

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Displaying all files that belong to a certain category
To display the files that belong to a certain category, click on the category 
name (note that you should click on the folder name, not on the folder 
symbol).
• To display all files not in any category, right-click in the Category pane and 
select “Find unregistered items” from the pop-up menu.
Displaying files regardless of category
If you want to display all files in the Audio Database, regardless of their...