Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual
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WAVELAB Installing and setting up 3 – 31 Installing samplers Installing MIDI and SCSI interfaces If your sampler communicates with WaveLab via MIDI, you need to install a MIDI interface. If it communicates via SCSI you need a SCSI card. For some samplers you will need both. For all general instructions on installing MIDI interfaces and SCSI cards, please refer to the instructions that came with the units. Do not connect anything to the SCSI card until you have finished installation of the card and its drivers and have read the instructions below! Connecting the sampler MIDI connections 1.Connect a MIDI cable from the MIDI Out on the sampler to a MIDI In on your computer. 2.Connect a MIDI cable from a MIDI Out on your computer to the MIDI In on the sampler. SCSI connections Before you connect your sampler via SCSI, read the following! SCSI is a high speed electrical interface, primarily designed to connect hard disks and other peripherals to personal computers. SCSI is not a regular computer network so there are severe restrictions on how many devices you can have connected, cable lengths, etc. Improper SCSI handling may cause permanent damage to your equip- ment. Please, always follow the few but important golden rules of SCSI to insure yourself against damaged equipment: • Always make all connections with all units turned off! • Set all devices to different IDs before connecting and turning on power! PC SCSI cards normally occupy the SCSI ID 7. • The ID of your sampler can normally be changed from its front panel. • Use high quality SCSI cables! The shorter they are, the better. • The total length of all SCSI cables should never exceed 6 meters (20 feet). • The devices at the ends of your SCSI chain must be terminated! • Follow the recommendations in your sampler manual about how to terminate your devices.
WAVELAB 3 – 32 Installing and setting up • If you set up with too many terminators, or a terminator missing, data transmission most probably won’t work properly. In the worst case, one of your SCSI devices may be physically damaged. • The computer should always be at one end of the SCSI chain of devices. • Always turn on the computer last, after all other devices have been started up. • Always switch on all devices. If some device is not turned on, you may lose data. Booting up 1.Make sure you have the latest operating system for your sampler. Wave- Lab may not be able to communicate with the sampler if you don’t have a current version. If in doubt, contact your dealer. 2.Turn on the sampler and any connected external SCSI devices. Let the sampler finish booting. 3.Turn on your computer. 4.If the computer refuses to boot (the computer “hangs” during startup) there’s something wrong with the termination, cables or SCSI IDs. Go back and check everything again. Try with less equipment connected (but don’t forget – always terminate both ends of the SCSI chain!). Verifying SCSI communication with the sampler To make sure your sampler has really been installed properly on the SCSI bus, proceed as follows: 1.Launch WaveLab. 2.Select “Sampler configurations…” from the Sampling menu. 3.Click on the Settings tab. 4.Pull down the Unit pop-up in the SCSI section. The sampler should be listed here. If it isn’t, there’s either something wrong with your instal- lation, or the sampler model cannot communicate via SCSI from a Windows computer. Verifying MIDI communication with the sampler This is done when you start using it for audio transfers, and involves a number of steps (creating presets, making SysEx ID settings, etc.). See “Using samplers and creating loops” on page 657 for details.
WAVELAB Installing and setting up 3 – 33 Installation done! Where do I go next? There are three things we suggest you do: •Read through the rest of this book and try out the different possibilities as you go along. •Examine your WaveLab directory and other disks included in this package for files that might be useful to you. •If you run into problems, check the Troubleshooting chapter in the online documentation. About the Tracer application In the WaveLab directory created on your hard disk during installation, you will find a folder called “Tools”. Among other things, this folder con- tains a small application called Tracer. This is a diagnostic tool that tracks and logs various procedures that WaveLab executes when it is launched, e.g. the loading of plug-ins. Should you run into problems with WaveLab and need to contact techni- cal support, you can use the Tracer application and pass on the informa- tion it displays to the technical support staff. This could be of great assistance since it might be possible to see exactly which operation caused a problem. •To use the Tracer, locate the file Tracer.exe in the Windows Explorer and double click on it – or use the Run command on the Start menu to browse for the file. • After you have activated the Tracer application, launch WaveLab. • All loading procedures are displayed as plain text, and you can copy this informa- tion and then paste it into, for example, an e-mail.
WAVELAB 4 – 36 Overview Get to know WaveLab Welcome to WaveLab! This chapter is intended to get you acquainted with the program. We will here briefly describe its fundamental functions and main features, so as to point you in the right direction on your road to mastering all of the possi- bilities that WaveLab offers. The windows and what you can do with them Working with WaveLab, you will encounter a number of different windows that let you do different things. Editing audio files, compiling files for burn- ing CDs or DVDs, applying effects and much, much more. This is an over- view of the main windows in the program. The Wave window This is a Wave window, a graphical representation of an audio file. It con- sists of two parts – the lower is the Main view, and this is where you can perform various audio editing operations such as copying, cutting, pasting, moving, deleting, etc. The upper part is the Overview and serves to let you easily navigate through long files. You can read more about the Wave window and the operations you can perform in it in the chapter “Editing in the Wave window” on page 69.
WAVELAB Overview 4 – 37 The Audio Montage window This is an Audio Montage window. An Audio Montage lets you compile and edit multiple clips (references to audio files on disk) on one or several tracks. As you can see, the window consists of two panes. The lower one is called the Track View, and this is where you assemble the clips. The ap- pearance of the upper pane depends on which of the 12 tabs at the very top of the window is selected. These tabs give you access to various functions. After you have imported audio files as clips into an Audio Montage, you can arrange, edit and play back the clips. You can also apply effects, fades and crossfades, surround panning and much more, and last but not least, you can directly create CDs or DVD-As. All in all, the Audio Mon- tage is an excellent tool for advanced music CD or DVD-A creation. Read more about the Audio Montage and its features in the chapter “The Audio Montage” on page 371.
WAVELAB 4 – 38 Overview The Basic Audio CD window If you just want to create an audio CD, with each CD track corresponding to a single, whole audio file on disk, you may not need all the editing fea- tures in the Audio Montage. Instead, you can use the Basic Audio CD window. This is an environment that quickly and easily lets you compile audio files in a track list and burn them onto a music CD. You can freely change the order of the tracks, the length of the pauses between them and more. More on the Basic Audio CD window can be found in the chapter “Pre- paring a Basic Audio CD” on page 347. The DVD-Audio project window This is where you make various settings for a DVD-Audio project before rendering it and burning it onto a DVD. A DVD-Audio project can be based on one or more Audio Montages. Af- ter you have specified a Montage as basis for a DVD-Audio project, you can, among other things, create a visual menu for the DVD-A, add DVD text, create a bonus group and specify picture transition effects. See “DVD-Audio projects” on page 551. You then render the DVD-Audio project, after which the Data CD/DVD window automatically opens where you can optionally add data and other contents before burning the DVD (see below). For a general description of the DVD-Audio format, see “Background information” on page 366.
WAVELAB Overview 4 – 39 The Data CD/DVD Project window The Data CD/DVD window can be used for compiling and creating data CDs/DVDs (discs that exclusively contain computer data) and Mixed Mode CDs (discs that contain both data and audio), as well as DVD-Au- dio discs that contain audio, data and video. The window is divided into two panes; the upper is called the source win- dow, and the lower is the destination window. You drag files from the source window to the destination window, in which you can rename, re- move and move files before burning a CD or DVD. For a detailed description of the Data CD/DVD window and what you can do with it, see “Data CD/DVD Projects” on page 583.
WAVELAB 4 – 40 Overview The CD/DVD Label Editor This window is the Label Editor. Here you can design and print custom la- bels for the CDs or DVDs you create. You can create labels for both the front and back of a jewel case, as well as for the discs. Read more about this in the chapter “Creating labels” on page 603. The Backup Plan window WaveLab lets you back up all kinds of files and folders onto CD or stan- dard media. This window lets you decide which files and folders should be backed up, and also allows you to make various settings for the backup procedure. For a complete description of this window and how to perform backups, see the chapter “Using WaveLab for backup” on page 713.