Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual
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WAVELAB
Preparing a Basic Audio CD 17 – 355
“Unfolding” a track
Just as in the Explorer and other Windows programs, you can unfold a
track, to reveal additional settings. This can be done either by clicking the
“+” and “-” symbols or by selecting the track and using the [+] and [-]
keys on the numeric key pad.
An “unfolded” track
What information is available about a track?
The track length value is calculated from
the position of the track end marker. This is the pause that
will precede the track....](http://img.usermanuals.tech/thumb/86/103727/w64_WaveLab_d-354.png "Page 355
WAVELAB
Preparing a Basic Audio CD 17 – 355
“Unfolding” a track
Just as in the Explorer and other Windows programs, you can unfold a
track, to reveal additional settings. This can be done either by clicking the
“+” and “-” symbols or by selecting the track and using the [+] and [-]
keys on the numeric key pad.
An “unfolded” track
What information is available about a track?
The track length value is calculated from
the position of the track end marker. This is the pause that
will precede the track....")
WAVELAB Preparing a Basic Audio CD 17 – 351 By dragging a waveform selection If you already have a Wave window open, you can drag and drop selec- tions from it to the track list. 1.Make a selection. There are numerous ways of making selections. Let us just mention here the possibility to double click between two markers to select all audio between them. 2.Position the mouse pointer over the waveform, inside the selection area, and drag and drop in the track List. The selection appears as a track. If there are sub-index markers inside the selection, they will be part of the track. Dragging a waveform selection into the Basic Audio CD to add it as a track.
WAVELAB 17 – 352 Preparing a Basic Audio CD By dragging or copying and pasting between Basic Audio CDs If you have several Basic Audio CDs open, you can drag and drop between them. 1.Point at a track item in a list. 2.Press the mouse button and drag and drop the track item into another list. You can also use Cut, Copy and Paste to achieve the same thing: 1.Select an item in one track list. 2.Select Cut or Copy from the Edit menu. 3.Select another Basic Audio CD. 4.Select Paste from the Edit menu. By dragging from a Database You can drag files from the Database File List onto the Basic Audio CD window. 1.Point at a file in a Database. 2.Press the mouse button and drag and drop the track item into a CD track list.
WAVELAB Preparing a Basic Audio CD 17 – 353 Setting the order of the tracks on the CD Once you have all the files you need in the Basic Audio CD you might want to set the order in which they will appear on the CD. Determining the current order 1.Pull down the CD menu and select “Sort by Track Order”. 2.Check the numbering on the side of the list, it is now consecutive and the list reflects the order of the tracks on the CD. Changing the order using drag and drop 1.Position the mouse pointer over the name of the track you want to move to another position. 2.Drag and drop it somewhere else in the list. The items get resorted to reflect the new order. Changing the order using the keyboard 1.Select the track you want to move up/down. 2.Hold down [Ctrl] and press the up/down cursor keys. The file is moved up/down, accordingly. Deleting files from Basic Audio CDs To remove a file from the track list, select it and select Delete from the Edit menu or press [Backspace]. The file disappears from the list, but is of course not deleted from the hard disk. The track order
WAVELAB 17 – 354 Preparing a Basic Audio CD Managing list columns There are a couple of changes you can make to your track columns: • You can change the width of each column, by dragging the dividing lines between the headings left/right. • You can hide/show each column by clicking with the right mouse button on a heading, and selecting from the menu that appears. • You can click on the Title header to switch between three modes that show vari- ous amounts of details about the files to which the tracks belong. This also switches the sort modes between “Sort by Track Order” and “Sort by audio file”. The three levels of file detail You can also use the CD menu (that only appears when the Basic Audio CD is the active window), to switch between “Sort by Track Order” and “Sort by audio file”.
WAVELAB Preparing a Basic Audio CD 17 – 355 “Unfolding” a track Just as in the Explorer and other Windows programs, you can unfold a track, to reveal additional settings. This can be done either by clicking the “+” and “-” symbols or by selecting the track and using the [+] and [-] keys on the numeric key pad. An “unfolded” track What information is available about a track? The track length value is calculated from the position of the track end marker. This is the pause that will precede the track. This is a representation of the marker that indicates the start of the track. The columns show the start (always 00:00:00) and Length (calculated from the position of the previous track end marker). These indicate any track sub-index markers that have been de- fined for the track. The columns show the start (the position of the marker) and length (the time from this marker to the next sub- index marker or the end of the track, whichever occurs first). These columns are described in the section “Other settings” on page 360. This is a representation of the marker that indicates the end of the track. The columns only show the start (the position of the marker). The track start value shows you how far in on the CD this track will start (in minutes:sec- onds:frames). The start time is calculated from the length of the preceding tracks.
WAVELAB 17 – 356 Preparing a Basic Audio CD Opening CD tracks for wave editing There are several ways to open a Basic Audio CD item for editing in a Wave window: •Double click on the Start time field. This opens the Wave window and selects the entire track. If you double clicked on a sub-in- dex marker or on a track end marker, the Wave cursor is moved there. Otherwise the cursor is moved to the track start marker. •Drag and drop a track item, a track start marker or a Pause item onto the WaveLab background (outside all document windows). This opens the corresponding Wave window and selects the area inside the track bound- aries. •Drag and drop a sub-index or track end marker onto the WaveLab back- ground (outside all document windows). This opens the Wave window and moves the Wave cursor to the corresponding position. •Drag and drop a CD track onto an already open audio file window. This inserts the track into the file, as when you drag and drop between Wave windows. Please note that this must of course be a window for another file.
WAVELAB Preparing a Basic Audio CD 17 – 357 About the relation between the track list and CD markers CD markers appear in the audio files. They define the start, end points and sub-index points for tracks in the track list. To learn about the various marker types, open the Edit marker dialog (se- lect “New Marker” from the time ruler menu) and click the question mark icon in the dialog for details. The following illustration shows which items correspond to which in the track List vs. the Wave window. Note the track splice marker that indicates the end of one track and the beginning of the next.
WAVELAB 17 – 358 Preparing a Basic Audio CD Working with CD markers You edit and add CD markers using any of the following methods: •By adjusting positions of existing CD markers. This is done by dragging, as with any marker. •By converting existing “Generic” or “Temporary” markers into CD type markers. This is done by right-clicking on a marker and selecting “Edit marker”. The “Edit Marker” dialog •By adding markers on the fly, and then converting them into CD markers. • You can also use the “Convert marker type” dialog to convert markers – see “The Convert marker type dialog” on page 335. •By adding markers using the New Marker function. For details on the two options above, see “Dropping markers on the fly” on page 331. •By dragging waveform selections into the Basic Audio CD. See “Adding files to a Basic Audio CD” on page 350. •By making a waveform selection and then selecting the speed menu op- tion “Create CD Track from Selection”. •By using Add Tracks on files that have not previously been marked for Ba- sic Audio CDs. Remember that if you make a mistake, you can always undo your actions.
WAVELAB Preparing a Basic Audio CD 17 – 359 About relations between markers in a file To understand how CD markers relate to the items in the Basic Audio CD, please read the following: • A track in the Basic Audio CD is defined by a track start or track splice marker in the actual audio file! Delete the track start/splice marker, and the track item van- ishes from the list! Also, edit the track start or end position, and the change is re- flected in all Basic Audio CDs that include this track. • Just because you create the markers for it, this does not mean the track will be added to a Basic Audio CD window. You have to do this “manually”, using drag and drop to the desired Basic Audio CD(s). As a matter of fact, you can have sev- eral tracks defined in a single audio file, but still decide to only use one or a few of them in a Basic Audio CD. • Whenever you create a track start marker, WaveLab will automatically create a track end marker at the start of the next track or at the end of the file, whichever occurs first. It’s then up to you to adjust the position of that end marker if you like. • WaveLab does not allow tracks that start but have no end. Neither will it allow overlapping or nested tracks (tracks inside tracks). If you try to move track mark- ers to invalid places (beyond the end of the file, to a position inside another track, etc.), WaveLab will automatically reorganize the markers to a valid configuration. • The track splice marker indicates the end of one track and the start of another. In other words, it's a combined start and end marker. If you drop a start marker after another start marker, it will automatically convert into a splice marker since you can't have two starts after each other without an end between them. • If you use one file in multiple Basic Audio CDs, beware that any changes you make to the audio file will be reflected in all Basic Audio CDs! • Sub-index markers can be added between starts and ends as required. The only limitation is that there can only be 98 sub-index markers per track. You can’t in- sert a sub-index outside a CD track. If you move a sub-index out of a CD track, it is deleted. • Whenever you insert a sub-index, its position is quantized to a CD frame (1/75th of a second, or 588 audio frames) relative to the track start. If you move the CD track start marker, all sub-index markers will need to be re-quantized. You will be warned about this via an alert box. This is usually not a problem, since you will nor- mally only start defining sub-indexes once your start and end points have been established.
WAVELAB 17 – 360 Preparing a Basic Audio CD Adjusting pauses Each track has a pause setting. This pause will be played before the be- ginning of the track. •To change the length of the pause, double click on the value (the dark red digits). As usual, you can right click on the numbers (after double clicking) to set the value using sliders. If you press [Ctrl] while setting the length of a pause, all tracks will get the same pause length. •Don’t confuse seconds with frames; 00:00.02 is 2 frames (almost noth- ing) while 00:02.00 is 2 seconds Naming tracks •If you hold down [Alt] and double click on a track name, you can edit it (to be precise, what you are editing is the name of the CD track markers in the audio file). Please note that this name is not stored on the CD (CD tracks don't have names). This naming is only for your convenience. Other settings • The ISRC field (see “ISRC codes” on page 579) can be edited by double clicking. • The comment field is also edited by double clicking. This text is not stored on the CD, it is only here for your convenience. • The key symbol indicates a track copy protection “flag” (on/off setting). Click here to activate/deactivate this flag. Please note that this setting is hardly ever used now- adays, and not all CD-R units can even handle it. Normally you will leave this off. • The little rainbow colored symbol indicates the Emphasis “flag”. This setting is used to indicate if the track was recorded with emphasis or not. Please note that this does not apply/remove emphasis from the audio, it is just an indicator for how the file was created. Normally you will leave this off. There is a shortcut for the last two settings: To invert the settings for all tracks, click on the column heading instead of the actual track item. Copy Protection Emphasis ISRCComment