Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual
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WAVELAB Using samplers and creating loops 28 – 681 Do not move the loop points after performing the processing! The wave- form has been processed specifically for the current loop settings! About the end of the loop – Post-crossfading After using the Loop Tone Equalizer, the transition from the end of the loop to the end of the file in many cases won’t be very natural. This can be fixed as follows: 1.Close the Loop Tone Equalizer and open the Crossfade Looper. 2.Click on the Crossfade tab and deactivate the Crossfade option (the check box). 3.Click on the Post-Crossfade tab and make sure Crossfade is activated. 4.Set up the post-crossfade parameters and click Apply. Working with presets As with the Crossfade Looper, you can create presets for settings in the dialog for quick recall. See “Presets” on page 65 for details.
WAVELAB 28 – 682 Using samplers and creating loops
WAVELAB 29 – 684 Audio Databases What is an Audio Database and why do I need it? Audio Databases are collections of audio files. However, an Audio Database doesn’t really contain the actual files, rather it contains instruc- tions on where the files are, what they are called, etc. The files in an Audio Database can be located on any of the media con- nected to your computer, e.g. hard disks, removable disks, CD-ROM disks and even floppies. For example, if you use an Audio Database to call up a wave file that is on a CD-ROM disk not currently in the CD-ROM drive, the program will inform you as to which CD-ROM you need to be able to load the wave. Furthermore, the Audio Database allows you to organize your audio file library into categories (sound fx, instrumental sounds, etc.) and you can specify categories yourself, if you like. This allows you for example to dis- play all your bass drums on all your disks and CD-ROMs with a single mouse click! Finally, an Audio Database can search your media for files, based on cer- tain criteria, for example allowing you to find all files with the word “train” as part of the name.
WAVELAB Audio Databases 29 – 685 Creating and opening Audio Databases Creating an empty Audio Database There are two ways to create a new empty Audio Database: • Pull down the File menu, select New, and from the menu that appears, se- lect Audio Database, or… • Click on the New icon on the control bar, and select Audio Database from the menu that appears. Either way, a dialog appears, allowing you to specify a name and location for the new Audio Database. Opening an existing Audio Database Audio Database files are opened like any other file in Windows (see “Opening Waves” on page 71 for information on opening Wave files. Many of the same methods apply). There is one shortcut, though: •Click on the Open icon on the control bar, and select Audio Database from the menu that appears. Audio Database files have the extension “dba”. You can have many Audio Databases open at the same time. This does not consume a lot of your system resources. How Audio Databases are saved There is no special save command for Audio Databases. Instead, any changes you make are automatically saved to disk as you go along. If you close an Audio Database and then open it you will find it exactly as you left it (to open an Audio Database with a standard layout instead, hold down [Ctrl] when opening). You might work a lot on your Audio Databases, organizing files into catego- ries, etc. Please back the Audio Database files up, in case you experience data loss. Audio Database files are small compared to audio files.
WAVELAB 29 – 686 Audio Databases Window overview and adjustments About the panes The Audio Database window is divided into the Location Pane, the Cate- gory Pane and the File List. Their sizes can be adjusted, see “Panes” on page 51. • The Location pane shows volumes, folders and subfolders as on your hard disks. To be precise, it shows all folders containing files that are in the Audio Database. • The Category pane lists all the categories which are used to “classify” and orga- nize the sounds in the Audio Database. There are categories and subcategories, displayed just like folders on a hard disk. For example, there is an “Instruments” category and this contains the categories “Keyboards”, “String” and “Wind”, which in turn contain other categories. • The File list shows a selection of all the files in the Audio Database. Various oper- ations allow you to display all files in a certain category, all files in a certain folder or a combination of both these criteria. You can also perform more advanced find operations to display only files that meet certain criteria. • From the File list you can play, open and perform other operations on files . Location Pane Folders that contain audio files Category PaneCategories File List File attribute columns Volumes (drives) that contain audio files
WAVELAB Audio Databases 29 – 687 Adding files to the Audio Database There are several ways to add files to a Database: Using Add 1.Select Add from the Audio Database menu. You can also press the right mouse button in the Location pane and select Add from the menu that appears. 2.Select all files you want to open (for example using [Shift] and [Ctrl]) and click Open. The files appear in the List. Also, folders are added to the Location pane. These correspond to the real folders that the files are in, on the disk. By dragging a document You can drag an entire Wave document into the Audio Database by using the drag icon on the title bar of the Wave window. Using Scan folder This feature allows you to automatically search for and add files matching certain criteria. 1.Select “Scan folder” from the Audio Database menu. You can also press the right mouse button in the Location pane and select “Scan folder” from the menu that appears. 2.Select a drive and a folder from which to start searching, and click OK. This folder and all its subfolders will be searched. 3.In the dialog that appears, set up the desired criteria (see the following pages for details). Note that the search criteria dialog has three tabs for deciding which files to add to the Audio Database – one for text criteria, one for file format criteria and one for date and size criteria. For a file to be added, it must fulfill the criteria set up in all three tabs. The drag icon
WAVELAB 29 – 688 Audio Databases For example it might have to… • have a name containing the text “piano” • be in stereo • be smaller than one megabyte. You can of course set up any of the tabs so that all files meet the criteria in this particular tab. For example you can add files based only on their naming or only on their format. 4.If at some point you need to reset the settings in all three tabs to default values, click Reset. 5.Once all the criteria are set up, click Scan to actually search the disk for files. The files that meet all the criteria appear in the list. Also, folders are added to the Loca- tion Pane as needed, corresponding to the files’ real folders on disk. The Text tab This is used to specify which files to add to the Audio Database, based on text criteria: • WaveLab will search in file names, keywords or comments (depending on the “Topic to Search” setting) for the text specified on the Query line. It doesn’t matter whether you use upper case or lower case letters. When searching among keywords, you can use the menu button to the right to automatically add keywords to the query text. Keywords and comments are described in the section “Keywords” on page 696.
WAVELAB Audio Databases 29 – 689 • To search for multiple text strings, separate words with spaces on the Query line. The result depends on the “Search mode” options: For example, if you type “piano grand” and specify an “OR” search in file names, the following files will be “found”: • piano • PIANO • pianola • The best piano you have ever heard • grand funk • grand piano • GRANDMA But you will not “find” the files: • pianissimo • pia no way! If instead you performed an AND search with the same words you would for example find: • Grand Piano • Piano Grandissimo but not: • Piano • Grand Option Description Normal The entire text on the line is used as one “string”. Files that contain this text will be “found”. AND If there are several words, separated by spaces, only files that contain all the words will be “found”. OR If there are several words separated by spaces, files that contain any of these words will be “found”.
WAVELAB 29 – 690 Audio Databases The Format tab This allows you to add files based on the file format. You may activate multiple options in each section in order to add files of different catego- ries (e.g. both mono and stereo files). Background information on the dif- ferent attributes in this dialog can be found in the section “Editing attributes and getting information” on page 127. The Date & Size tab