Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual

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•If you are editing a clip color element, you can make separate color set-
tings for the left and right sides of stereo clips.
If you want the same color for the left and right sides, you must make sure that the checkbox 
Edit Left/Right is activated (it is by default).
When this is activated, settings for the left side of a clip are automatically “mirrored” on 
the right side, and vice versa.
•If you activate the Link sliders checkbox, you can adjust all three sliders at...

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Automatic coloring – Setting up  conditions 
When you have defined a custom color scheme, you have the option of 
automatically applying this to any files you add to the Montage that match 
certain conditions.
Select a custom color scheme in the Audio Montage Colors dialog and 
click the Conditions button to bring up the “Style condition” dialog. Here 
you can set up which conditions must be matched for a clip to automatically 
get the selected custom color scheme. The...

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The following color elements are available:
For the Crossfade Region item, you can only select colors for “Background” 
and “Background (sel. range)”.
Option Description
Background top/bot-
tom (normal/selected/
selected range)The background colors of the clip (unselected, selected and selec-
tion range, respectively). The resulting display backgrounds will be 
gradient “fades” from the top colors to the bottom colors (this can be 
turned off in the Preferences–Environment...

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Miscellaneous colors
This section of the Items list in the dialog contains color settings for other 
elements in the Track View:
Working with window layouts
Window layouts are used for creating various “work displays” for differ-
ent situations. The following items are stored in window layouts:
• The size, position and minimize/maximize properties of document windows. This 
does not include the contents of the window, just the properties of the window 
“frame” itself. For...

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Window layouts are managed in the Window Layouts dialog on the View 
menu. The procedures are the same as when handling regular presets (for 
detailed descriptions, see “Presets” on page 65):
•To create a new window layout, set up the display as you want it (see the 
list above) and use the Window Layout dialog to name and add the new 
layout.
•To modify an existing window layout, set up the display as you want it, se-
lect the window layout in the dialog and click the Update...

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Creating a Favorites menu
The Favorites item on the File menu allows you to assemble a list of files 
that you want to be able to open quickly – a library if you will.
• To add a file to the list, make sure its window is active and select “Add current 
document” from the Favorites-Functions submenu.
• To open a file from the list, select it.
• To clear the whole list, select Clear List from the Favorites–Functions submenu.
• To update the list so that it only lists files that...

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Key sequences and MIDI commands are listed and managed in the “Key-
board/MIDI Commands” dialog, opened from the Options menu.  

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About the list of operations
The main part of this dialog is occupied by the list of available operations 
that can be called up via key sequences and/or MIDI commands. You can 
choose to view this list in one of two ways, with the “Sort” buttons in the 
upper right corner of the dialog:
• “Sort by Command” organizes the operations in folders, in groupings that relate 
to various sections in the program.
• “Sort by Key” lists all commands in a “flat” fashion (no folders), and...

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Defining key sequences
1.Select the operation for which you want to create a key sequence.
2.Click the “Key Sequence…” button.
3.If you want to clear the current key sequence, click Clear.
4.Make sure “Catch mode” is active.
5.Press the first combination of keys that you want to use.
You can include modifiers ([Shift], [Ctrl], [Alt], etc.) if you like. There is also a setting that 
makes the program distinguish between two modifiers with the same label, on each side of 
the...

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Defining MIDI Commands
Before you can use MIDI commands you have to select the MIDI interface 
for incoming messages from the “Input for MIDI commands” pop-up.
1.Select the operation for which you want to define a MIDI command.
2.Click the “MIDI Event…” button.
3.If you want to clear the current MIDI command, click Clear.
4.Send the MIDI event from your controller.
Press the key or button you wish to use on your MIDI controller and the MIDI command will 
be set for the...