Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual
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WAVELAB
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Selecting objects
Click an object with the Selection tool to select it.
• Selected objects are indicated by a dotted outline, and square “handles”, which
can be used to scale the size of the object.
• To select several objects, hold down [Shift] or [Ctrl] and click. Selected objects
can be de-selected by [Shift]-clicking.
•
When several objects are selected, one of the objects will always have “focus”. The
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WAVELAB
24 – 608 Creating labels
Selecting objects
Click an object with the Selection tool to select it.
• Selected objects are indicated by a dotted outline, and square “handles”, which
can be used to scale the size of the object.
• To select several objects, hold down [Shift] or [Ctrl] and click. Selected objects
can be de-selected by [Shift]-clicking.
•
When several objects are selected, one of the objects will always have “focus”. The
focus is indicated by red handles on this particular object....")
WAVELAB Creating labels 24 – 611 The Objects menu The Objects menu can be selected from the toolbar, or opened by right- clicking an object (speed menu). The items on the Objects menu are greyed out if no object is selected. If one object is selected, the following Object menu items are available: Item Description Edit properties… See “About the Edit Properties dialog” on page 610. Edit position and size… See “Positioning objects” on page 609. Edit display condition This allows you to decide whether an object will be displayed or not, depending on whether a given variable is empty or not. Bring to front This brings any object that is partially obscured by another over- lapping object to the front. Send to back This sends any object that partially or completely overlaps another object to the back. Center horizontally Centers a selected object horizontally in the layout. Center vertically Centers a selected object vertically in the layout. Lock movement This locks the position of the selected object. Select all Selects all objects. Select all with the same sizeSelects all objects with identical dimensions to the selected object.
WAVELAB 24 – 612 Creating labels If several objects are selected when opening the Objects menu, the fol- lowing additional items are available: About label sets You can save as many label sets as you like for a project. However, when- ever you open the Label Editor by selecting the “Create Label” menu item, a new label set opens which is untitled and only contains the auto-gener- ated data. Whenever you have edited layouts in the Label Editor, you will be asked to save it as a label set if you close the Label Editor or exit the program without first having saved your changes. If you don’t save, any changes are lost. • It is important to note that any work performed in the Label Editor is not saved with the project – it has to be saved separately as a label set. Item Description Apply same properties as focused objectThis item allows you to apply properties from the focused object to all of the selected objects of the same type. Space evenly horizontally This distributes the selected objects horizontally, using the top center handle as a guide. This means that the top center han- dles in each selected object will be exactly the same distance from each other horizontally. Space evenly vertically This distributes the selected objects vertically, using the side center handle as a guide. This means that the side center han- dles in each selected object will be exactly the same distance from each other vertically. Place under each other This will place all selected objects directly under each other. Align with focused object (several items)These menu items will align selected objects to the position of the focused object. You can select to align to any side (left/ right/top/bottom), or to the horizontal or vertical center of the object with the focus. Resize as focused object (several items)These menu items will resize all selected objects to either the same size as the focused object or to the same width or height as the focused object. Group/Ungroup This will group all selected objects so that they will act as one object when selected or moved (keeping the relative positions to each other). Ungroup deselects the grouping.
WAVELAB Creating labels 24 – 613 • Saved label sets (with the extension *.lab) contain all the layout work per- formed in the Label Editor. It is, however, not dynamic. This means that if you have added to or changed the CD Project, Audio Montage, etc. in any way after saving a label set, these changes will not be reflected in the saved label set, unless you save it as a user template (see below). Saving a label set To save a label set, select “Save” or “Save As…” from the File menu with the Label Editor open and as the active window (on top). Opening a label set To open a saved label set, select “Open” from the File menu and “Label Set…” from the submenu that appears. Saving a label set as a user template If you have saved a label set, you can make this appear on the list of avail- able templates in the “Select a Label Template” dialog. Label templates are label sets that reside in designated subfolders inside the WaveLab program folder. The path to the Label template folders (starting from the main WaveLab program folder) is “Presets \Label\Templates\”. Here you will find four folders: “Audio/ AudioData/Data/Images”. Place (or save di- rectly) a label set in the appropriate folder. It will now appear as a new template next time you open the “Select a Label Template” dialog.
WAVELAB 24 – 614 Creating labels Defining user variables If you have reached this section via a cross-reference from the CD report section in the Audio Montage chapter, please note that the information ap- plies equally to CD reports, although the text is written specifically for labels. Apart from the auto-generated data such as media information, date and time, etc., you can define a number of user editable variables that are local to the project you are working on. Once you have defined a set of user variables, this is automatically saved with the current project. To define user variables, proceed as follows: 1.Open the project you wish to set user variables for. This can be a CD Project, an Audio Montage, an Import Audio CD Tracks session or a Backup Plan. 2.Select the “Edit text variables…” menu item. Where this menu item is located depends on the type of project; for Audio Montages and Backup Plans it is on the Functions menu and for Data CD/DVD Projects it is on the CD menu. Selecting this item opens a dialog containing a list of folders similar to the structure in the Windows Explorer. •Only the variables in open folders (and “Editable” written in the Type col- umn) can be edited. The editable variables vary according to the type of project.
WAVELAB Creating labels 24 – 615 3.To define a value for a default variable, for example copyright or personal information, double-click in the Current Value column for the relevant de- scription. A text box opens where you can type in the relevant information. 4.Click OK when done. Creating new variables You can create new variables and define values for them. The new vari- able will automatically be put in the currently selected folder (or in the folder with a currently selected variable). Proceed as follows: 1.Either create a new folder by clicking the “New Folder” button, or select a folder that you want to add a new variable to. If you chose the former option, select the new folder. 2.Click the “New Variable” button. A new editable variable appears in the selected folder. 3.Double-click in the Description column beside the new variable to open a text box where an appropriate description can be typed in. For example “Producer”. 4.Double-click in the Current Value column to enter the relevant information for the new variable, i.e. the name of the producer. 5.To create a code that can be used to refer to the variable in the Label Ed- itor, type in an appropriate name beginning and ending with “%” in the Code column. To use the earlier example, this would be written “%Producer%”. 6.Click OK when done. Once you have entered your personal data you can save the text variables file as a preset, see below. On the Options menu there is a default set of text variables that is al- ways available. Use this as a clean slate for creating new variables. Saving variable sets as presets Clicking the name field pop-up at the bottom of the window opens a menu which allows you to save sets of variables as presets. After having saved one or more variable sets as presets, you can switch between dif- ferent presets of already “filled in” variables by selecting one from the name field pop-up. A preset could typically represent the information be- longing to a client you work with regularly, for example. Naturally, the auto- generated variables will still adapt to the current project as usual.
WAVELAB 24 – 616 Creating labels Exporting text variables in ASCII This option opens the current text variables as an ASCII text document in a tabulated format, suitable for editing in a spreadsheet application such as Excel. Where this menu item is located depends on the type of project; for Au- dio Montages and Backup Plans it is on the Functions menu, and for CD Projects it is on the CD menu. Printing labels You print your labels directly from the Label Editor, either on standard pa- per or on special media label paper (usually available in computer periph- eral stores, etc.). Calibrating the printer If you are printing on special label paper, it is very important that the printer is “calibrated”, that is, the measurements in the program (for margins, po- sitioning, etc.) must be exactly the same as the actual results you get when printing. This is not as important when you print on standard paper (since the printouts then don’t have to fit exactly in specific positions on paper). To calibrate the printer, select “Calibrate printer” from the Printing menu in the Label Editor and follow the steps in the dialog that appears. You only need to do this once (unless you switch to another printer). Setting up page layouts The Page Layout dialog contains various settings relating to how the page layout will be printed. It’s important to note that you make page layout set- tings individually for each one of the three label types (case front, case back and disc label). These are also printed individually. If you are using special label paper, these will typically come with a mea- surement sheet, showing the exact size and positioning of the labels. To set up the page layout, select the desired label type (by clicking the corresponding tab) and select “Page layout…” from the Printing menu in the Label Editor. For details about the settings, click the question mark icon in the dialog. Note that there are different settings for the three differ- ent label types.
WAVELAB Creating labels 24 – 617 Printing Printing is done independently for the three label types. However, there are two settings that are global for all three label types: 1.Pull down the Options pop-up menu and select “Preferences”. The “Label editor preferences” dialog appears. 2.Use the “Printing” checkboxes to determine whether the frames around the labels should be printed, and whether cut markers should be printed (making it easier to cut out the labels from the printed paper). Now, you are ready to print: 3.Select one of the label types by clicking its tab. 4.Select “Print” from the Printing menu in the Label Editor window. The “Print label” dialog appears, allowing you to make printer settings, preview the result and specify a number of copies. 5.Click Print. 6.Select the next label type by clicking on its tab, and proceed from step 3 above.
WAVELAB 25 – 620 Analysis Global analysis Introduction What does the “Global analysis” dialog do? This dialog allows you to perform advanced analysis on your audio to find certain areas with specified properties. It can be used to find problem areas (glitches, distortion), etc., or to check general information such as the pitch of a sound. How does it work? When you analyse a section of an audio file, the program scans it and extracts overall information which it displays in the dialog. However, during analysis, it also “pin-points” sections in the file that meet specific characteristics, for example, sections being very loud or very silent. You can then browse between these points, set markers at these places or zoom in on them. About the tabs • The Peaks tab is used for finding individual samples with very high values. • The Loudness tab is for finding sections with high amplitude. • The Pitch tab is for finding out the exact pitch of a sound or section. • The Extra tab tells you about DC offsets and the significant bit resolution. • The Errors tab helps you find glitches and sections where the audio has been clipped (recorded or processed at too high a level).