Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual
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Operation Manual by Anders Nordmark Quality Control: Cristina Bachmann, Heiko Bischoff, Sabine Pfeifer, Claudia Schomburg The information in this document is subject to change without notice and does not represent a commitment on the part of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. The software described by this document is subject to a License Agreement and may not be copied to other media except as specifically allowed in the License Agreement. No part of this publication may be copied, reproduced or otherwise transmitted or recorded, for any purpose, without prior written permission by Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH. All product and company names are ™ or ® trademarks of their respective owners. Windows XP is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. © Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH, 2005. All rights reserved.
WAVELAB 4 Table of Contents 11Introduction 12Welcome! 12What’s new in WaveLab 6.0? 14How you can reach us 15Requirements 16This is what you need… 16Computer requirements 18Sampler requirements 18About audio cards 19About the System Information feature 21Installing and setting up 22Setting up the computer 23Installation procedure 24Register your software! 25Launching WaveLab 25Program settings 30Installing a CD/DVD recorder 31Installing samplers 33Installation done! Where do I go next? 33About the Tracer application 35Overview 36Get to know WaveLab 36The windows and what you can do with them 43Find your way around in WaveLab 45Basic methods 46Why you should read this chapter 46Getting help 47Undo and Redo 49Working with windows 56Dockable control bars 59The status bar 60Speed menus61Units of time and level 62Setting values 65Presets 67About non-modal dialogs 68Using the computer keyboard 69Editing in the Wave window 70About this chapter 70Creating new empty documents 71Opening Waves 76Window overview and adjustments 80Setting the zoom factor 86Navigating through the file 87Snapshots 88Setting the ruler start position 89Working with a meter based display 89Setting the wave cursor position 91Selecting 99Basic editing commands 113File handling in Wave windows 127Editing attributes and getting information 129About the Loudness enve- lope display mode 133Playback and recording 134Playing back 146Recording 155Metering 156Introduction 156Selecting what to monitor 158Multi-channel metering 159The meters
WAVELAB Table of Contents 5 175Off-line processing 176Introduction 176Applying processing 178Level Normalizer 178Gain Change 180Loudness Normalizer 183Pan Normalizer 184Dynamics 189Level envelope 191Fade-in and fade-out 192Crossfade 195Invert Phase 195Reverse 195Eliminate DC Offset 196Waveform Restorer 196Time Stretch 201Pitch Correction 204Pitch Quantize 205Pitch Bend 207Harmonization 208Hi-fi Chorus 209EQ 210Convert sample rate 211Effect Morphing 215Support for reNOVAtor™ 217Master Section 218Introduction 219The Master Section window 221About the signal path 222The Master level pane 225The Effects pane 231The Dithering pane 236Master Section presets 239Rendering 244Smart bypass 247The Monitor window 251Audio Input 252Using External effects 255Spectrum Editor 256Introduction 256Basics 260Defining a region 262Surgical processing 269Master Section processing 273Batch processing 274Introduction 276Opening the Batch Processor 277Overview of the Window 278The Input tab – Assembling a list of files 285Setting up the processing tasks to be performed 292The Output tab – Settings for created files 299Scheduling 301Running and stopping the batch(es) 301Using presets for batch processing 303Batch file encoding 304Basic procedure 307Batch renaming 308Introduction 308Setting up which files/clips/ markers to rename 312Renaming operations 321About regular expressions 327Markers 328Introduction 331Creating markers 332About the marker list 333Marker appearance and visi- bility
WAVELAB 6 Table of Contents 334Editing, converting and naming markers 336Moving and duplicating markers 337Deleting markers 338Operations involving markers 341Using Auto Split 342Introduction 342The Auto Split dialog 347Preparing a Basic Audio CD 348Creating, opening and saving Basic Audio CDs 349About the Basic Audio CD window 350Adding files to a Basic Audio CD 353Setting the order of the tracks on the CD 353Deleting files from Basic Audio CDs 354Managing list columns 355“Unfolding” a track 356Opening CD tracks for wave editing 357About the relation between the track list and CD markers 358Working with CD markers 360Adjusting pauses 360Naming tracks 360Other settings 361Checking the total length of the CD 361Playing files in the track list 362Creating a disc image 363Exporting audio files from a track list 364Preparations done! 365About the DVD-Audio format 366Background information 371The Audio Montage 372Introduction 373The Audio Montage window 378Assembling the Montage 392Zooming and navigating 399Playing back 406Recording 408Rearranging clips 433The Zoom view 436Editing in the Clips view 441Managing clips and source files 445The volume envelope 457Using fades and crossfades in the Montage 469The pan envelope 470Transforming clips 474Adding effects to tracks and clips 483Managing effects in the Plug-ins view 486The Meta Normalizer 489Groups 492Using markers in the Montage 496Undo/Redo and History 498File handling in the Audio Montage 504Using video tracks 506Multichannel operation in the Montage 527Mixing down – The Render function 531Preparing the Audio Montage for CD/DVD-Audio burning 541Creating an Audio CD report
WAVELAB Table of Contents 7 546Using DVD-A picture and text tracks 547Exporting and importing AES-31 files 549XML Export/Import of Audio Montages 551DVD-Audio projects 552Creating and opening a DVD-Audio project 553Adding Montages to a DVD-Audio project 554The DVD-Audio project window 556The Main settings dialog 558Generating DVD menus 566DVD-Audio text 568Final preparations 571Burning an audio CD 572Introduction 572Selecting a CD-R unit 573Testing a basic audio CD before burning 574Writing a CD 576Validating an audio CD after burning 577The audio CD format – Background information 583Data CD/DVD Projects 584Introduction 585Creating a new Data CD/DVD Project 586Source window settings 587Destination window settings 590The Write dialog for the Data CD/DVD 593Importing audio CD/DVD tracks 594Importing audio CD tracks into WaveLab 599Importing DVD-Audio tracks into WaveLab 603Creating labels 604Introduction 606Using the Label Editor 614Defining user variables 616Printing labels 619Analysis 620Global analysis 631Audio error detection and correction 637Audio file comparer 6383D Frequency Analysis 641Loudness distribution tool 643Generating signals 644Audio Signal Generator 646DTMF Generator 649Synchronizing WaveLab to external devices 650Introduction 650MTC sync 656Sync to ASIO Positioning Protocol (APP) 657Using samplers and creating loops 658Introduction 658Background information 661Setting up your sampler(s) 663Transmitting samples
WAVELAB 8 Table of Contents 664Receiving samples 664Deleting and getting informa- tion about samples 665The Transmit Back feature 665In case of problems 666Using WaveLab with Steinberg HALion 667Editing sample attributes 669Basic looping 671Using the Crossfade Looper 679Using the Loop Tone Equalizer 683Audio Databases 684What is an Audio Database and why do I need it? 685Creating and opening Audio Databases 685How Audio Databases are saved 686Window overview and adjustments 687Adding files to the Audio Database 693Customizing the File List 693Selecting in the File List 694Finding out where files are located 694Opening a file for editing 694Playing a file 695Other file operations 699Working with categories 702Location operations 703Filtering the list 704Finding files 705Changing the default categories and keywords 707Workspaces 708What are Workspaces? 709Creating and opening Workspaces 709How Workspaces are saved 710Creating, renaming and deleting groups 710File operations 713Using WaveLab for backup 714Background 715Creating a Backup Plan 723Performing the backup 725Opening an archive 728Other functions 729Customizing 730What is customizing? 730Preferences 731Folder editing 733Saving the window layout 734Styling WaveLab – Wave windows 739Styling WaveLab – Audio Montage windows 744Working with window layouts 745Setting default size and posi- tion for windows 746Creating a Favorites menu 746Customizable key/MIDI commands 753Organizing plug-in processors 759Plug-in Processor Reference 760About WaveLab plug-ins 768VST Plug-ins
WAVELAB Table of Contents 9 791Sampler Details 792SDS - Generic Sample Dump Standard 792SMDI (Standard SCSI transfer) 793Akai S1000/1100 including PB models 793Akai S2000/S2800/S3000/ S3200, including all “i”, CD, and “XL” derivatives etc. 794Ensoniq, EPS, EPS16+, ASR-10, ASR-88 794E-mu Esi-32 795E-mu EIV, e64 and other samplers running the EOS operating system 795Kurzweil K2000 and K2500 796Roland S-760 797Troubleshooting 798General problems 799Problems with opening files 800Problems with saving files 800Recording problems 801Playback problems 802Editing problems 802Audio database and workspace problems 803Troubleshooting and precautions 803Sampler communication problems 804Problems and solutions 805Questions and Answers 806Day to day precautions for trouble free CD writing 807Hardware and setup issues 809Key commands 810File handling 810Wave display mode 811Zooming 811View 812Playback and cursor position 813Selecting 815Editing and Recording 817Processing 817Markers 818Database 818Miscellaneous 819Index