Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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Checking to which category a file belongs
If you want to find out to which category a certain file belongs, 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 category is highlighted in the Category pane (if no category folder is 
highlighted, the file doesn’t belong to any category).
• This operation also tells you in which folder the file is (check the...

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Location operations
The folders in the Location Pane mirror the way the files are organized on 
your disk(s). However, what you see is not really the folders on your disks. 
For one thing, only the folders that actually contain files that are in this Au-
dio Database are displayed. Furthermore you can rename the folders in 
this list without actually renaming the folders on your disk(s).
Displaying all files in a certain folder
To display all the files that reside in a...

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Syncing to folder
The Sync to folder feature lets you make sure that the content of a volume 
folder in the Audio Database matches the corresponding hard disk volume.
The operation affects the specified volume folder and all its subfolders.
1.In the folder list, right-click the volume folder you want to update, and se-
lect “Sync to folder…” from the pop-up menu.
The Find dialog appears, see “Using Scan folder” on page 687.
2.Fill out the dialog or select a preset to...

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• To completely turn off the filtering, open the Global Filter dialog, click the 
Reset button and click OK.
Finding files
WaveLab’s Find feature allows you to find all files in the Audio Database 
that match certain criteria.
Please note that the Find function only searches among files already added to 
the Database (which is different from how Scan folder works, see “Using 
Scan folder” on page 687).
There are four ways to invoke the Find function:
• If you want to...

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Changing the default categories and keywords
To change the category hierarchy and keyword lists that appear in new 
Audio Databases, proceed as follows:
1.Make copies of the files “categ.txt” and “keywords.txt”.
These are located in the WaveLab program folder, in the Presets–Misc subfolder. You 
might for example name the copies “categ.bak” and “keywords.bak”.
2.Launch a regular text editor.
One of those included with Windows will work fine.
3.To Edit the categories, open...

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Workspaces 

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What are Workspaces?
Workspaces allow you to collect files that somehow belong together, for 
example all files used in a song, all files used for one commercial, etc.
Furthermore, Workspaces allow you to organize those files into “folders” 
(here called groups) in any structure you like. For example you might put 
all narration files in one group regardless of whether the files are in differ-
ent folders on your hard disk, or even if they are on totally different drives!
The...

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Creating and opening Workspaces
When you open a Workspace or create a new one, all open files are closed.
Creating an empty Workspace
There are two ways to create a new empty Workspace:
•Pull down the File menu, select New, and from the menu that appears, se-
lect Workspace, or…
•Click on the New icon on the control bar, and select Workspace from the 
menu that appears.
Either way a file dialog opens, where you can select a location for naming and saving the 
new Workspace....

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Creating, renaming and deleting groups
Creating
You can create new groups as you see fit: Right-click on the group in 
which you want to create a new group, and select “New group” from the 
pop-up menu that appears. Enter a name for the group and click OK.
Renaming
To rename an existing group, right-click it and select Rename from the 
pop-up menu.
Removing
To delete a group and remove all files within it from the Workspace, right-
click it and select Remove, and click OK in...