Steinberg WaveLab 3 Operation Manual
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Rename
If you want to rename the file, proceed as follows.
1.Right-click on the file and select “Rename…” from the pop-up menu.
If the file is not on any of the disks currently “in the computer”, you will be prompted for the
required disk.
2.Type in the new name and press [Return]. Do not specify an extension,
only the actual file name.
If you need to modify the extension, use the Properties dialog, see “Setting properties” on
page 695.
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Rename
If you want to rename the file, proceed as follows.
1.Right-click on the file and select “Rename…” from the pop-up menu.
If the file is not on any of the disks currently “in the computer”, you will be prompted for the
required disk.
2.Type in the new name and press [Return]. Do not specify an extension,
only the actual file name.
If you need to modify the extension, use the Properties dialog, see “Setting properties” on
page 695.
This operation permanently...")
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Checking to which category a file belongs
If you want to find out to which category a certain file belongs, right-click
it in the list and select “Show folders” from the menu that appears (or
press [Alt] and click on the file name or wave icon in the list). Either way,
the category is highlighted in the Category pane (if no category folder is
highlighted, the file doesn’t belong to any category).
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Checking to which category a file belongs
If you want to find out to which category a certain file belongs, right-click
it in the list and select “Show folders” from the menu that appears (or
press [Alt] and click on the file name or wave icon in the list). Either way,
the category is highlighted in the Category pane (if no category folder is
highlighted, the file doesn’t belong to any category).
• This operation also tells you in which folder the file is (check the...")
WAVELAB Audio Databases 29 – 701 Checking to which category a file belongs If you want to find out to which category a certain file belongs, right-click it in the list and select “Show folders” from the menu that appears (or press [Alt] and click on the file name or wave icon in the list). Either way, the category is highlighted in the Category pane (if no category folder is highlighted, the file doesn’t belong to any category). • This operation also tells you in which folder the file is (check the Location pane). Creating, renaming and removing categories • To create a new category, select the folder in which you want this new cate- gory to be. Then press the right mouse button and select “New category…”. Type in the name and click OK. • To rename a category, select “Rename…” from the menu described above. Type in the new name and click OK. • To delete a category folder, select it and select Remove from the same menu as above. This deletes the selected category and all its subcategories. The files that belonged to these categories are not deleted. Rather they be- come “unregistered items”, see “Displaying all files that belong to a certain category” on page 700. The default categories As described in the section “Changing the default categories and key- words” on page 705 you can modify the default list of categories that ap- pears in new Audio Databases. The selected file belongs to this category.
WAVELAB 29 – 702 Audio Databases Location operations The folders in the Location Pane mirror the way the files are organized on your disk(s). However, what you see is not really the folders on your disks. For one thing, only the folders that actually contain files that are in this Au- dio Database are displayed. Furthermore you can rename the folders in this list without actually renaming the folders on your disk(s). Displaying all files in a certain folder To display all the files that reside in a certain folder (regardless of their categories), click on the folder. Renaming You can rename a folder in the Database (not the real folder on disk) by right-clicking it and selecting “Rename…” from the pop-up menu. This opens the folder name for editing – change the name and press [Return]. Note that if the folder names in the Audio Database and on the disk do not match, you cannot open the files in that folder from the Database. Removing To remove a folder and all the files in it from the Audio Database, right- click the folder and select “Remove…” from the pop-up menu. This does not delete the actual files from disk. It only removes them from the Audio Database. …and the files in it are displayed in the list. Click on a folder…
WAVELAB Audio Databases 29 – 703 Syncing to folder The Sync to folder feature lets you make sure that the content of a volume folder in the Audio Database matches the corresponding hard disk volume. The operation affects the specified volume folder and all its subfolders. 1.In the folder list, right-click the volume folder you want to update, and se- lect “Sync to folder…” from the pop-up menu. The Find dialog appears, see “Using Scan folder” on page 687. 2.Fill out the dialog or select a preset to narrow the operation to files that only meet certain criteria. If you want to affect all files in the folder(s) select the “All audio files” preset. 3.Click the Scan button. The following operations are performed: • Files that are not yet in the Audio Database are added. • Files that don’t exist any longer are removed from the Audio Database. • The attributes (size, etc.) of all files in the Audio Database are updated. Filtering the list The filter function allows you to specify which files should be visible in the Audio Database, by setting up certain criteria. You might for example want the list to only display stereo files, files of a certain date, etc. The filtering is common to all open Audio Databases. To set up a filter, proceed as follows: 1.Select “Global Filter…” from the Audio Database menu. The dialog that appears is identical to the one used for Scan folder. 2.Fill out the dialog or select a preset, as described in the section “Using Scan folder” on page 687. 3.Click OK. Now when you click on folders or categories, only files that meet the specified criteria will be displayed. When a filter is active, “Global Filter” is shown on the status bar.
WAVELAB 29 – 704 Audio Databases • To completely turn off the filtering, open the Global Filter dialog, click the Reset button and click OK. Finding files WaveLab’s Find feature allows you to find all files in the Audio Database that match certain criteria. Please note that the Find function only searches among files already added to the Database (which is different from how Scan folder works, see “Using Scan folder” on page 687). There are four ways to invoke the Find function: • If you want to search among all files in the Audio Database, select “Global Find…” from the Audio Database menu. • If you want to search in a folder and its subfolders, right-click on that folder and select “Find…”. • If you want to search among files in one category and its subcategories, right- click on that category and select “Find…”. • If you only want to search among the files currently in the list, click on the right mouse button in the list and select “Find…”. Regardless of which method you use, a Search dialog will appear. This is similar to the one used for filtering and for Scan folder (see “Using Scan folder” on page 687). Use the tabs to specify different types of criteria for the search (or select a preset) and click Search. The files found appear in the Audio Database. •If you have selected Global Find, you can activate “Keep open”. This al- lows you to redo the search without closing the dialog. • Note that the filter setting applies. For example, you might have set up a filter which ensures that only stereo files are shown in the list. When you perform a Find operation, you will still only get stereo files in the list. Please note that this might result in no files at all being shown. An example of this would be that you try to find only mono files and have a filter that only displays stereo files.
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Changing the default categories and keywords
To change the category hierarchy and keyword lists that appear in new
Audio Databases, proceed as follows:
1.Make copies of the files “categ.txt” and “keywords.txt”.
These are located in the WaveLab program folder, in the Presets–Misc subfolder. You
might for example name the copies “categ.bak” and “keywords.bak”.
2.Launch a regular text editor.
One of those included with Windows will work fine.
3.To Edit the categories, open the file “categ.txt”. To edit the keywords,
open “keywords.txt”.
Note how the files are structured:
• Each level in the hierarchy begins with the name. After this, the sub items within
this level are listed inside curly brackets (“{” and “}”). For example, in the “categ”
file you will note a section that begins with the word “Keyboards” followed by a
left bracket on the next line. This category (“Keyboards”) does not end until after
the word “Harpsichord”, since on the line below that, a corresponding right
bracket appears.
• Within each level you will in many cases find sublevels, also enclosed in curly brack-
ets. (In programmer speak, this is referred to as nested structure). In the “Keyboard”
example, the sublevels are “Organ”, “Piano”, “Synth”, “Celesta”, “Clavinet” and
“Harpsichord”. The first three of these contain their own subcategories.
4.Change the structure, rename, add and remove items as desired.
Make sure that each left bracket is “balanced” by a right bracket ending the
“level”!
5.Save the file under the same name in the same location.
If something goes wrong, delete the files you have created and rename
the backup files to the original names. This will give you back the initial
settings.
WAVELAB 30 – 708 Workspaces What are Workspaces? Workspaces allow you to collect files that somehow belong together, for example all files used in a song, all files used for one commercial, etc. Furthermore, Workspaces allow you to organize those files into “folders” (here called groups) in any structure you like. For example you might put all narration files in one group regardless of whether the files are in differ- ent folders on your hard disk, or even if they are on totally different drives! The group handling in this window is very similar to the folder handling in the Windows Explorer. Workspaces remember window settings! When you open a Workspace, all its files are restored to the state they were in when you closed the Workspace. This means that all Wave files are opened with their windows sized, zoomed and styled as they were when you last worked on the Workspace (to open a Workspace with a standard layout instead, hold down [Ctrl] when opening). Workspace files have the extension “.prj”.
WAVELAB Workspaces 30 – 709 Creating and opening Workspaces When you open a Workspace or create a new one, all open files are closed. Creating an empty Workspace There are two ways to create a new empty Workspace: •Pull down the File menu, select New, and from the menu that appears, se- lect Workspace, or… •Click on the New icon on the control bar, and select Workspace from the menu that appears. Either way a file dialog opens, where you can select a location for naming and saving the new Workspace. Opening an existing Workspace Workspace files are opened like any other file under Windows. However, there is one shortcut: •Click on the Open icon on the control bar. Select Workspace from the menu that appears. You can only have one Workspace open at a time. How Workspaces are saved There is no special save command for Workspaces. Instead, any changes you make are automatically saved to disk as you go along. If you close a Workspace and then open it you will find it exactly as you left it.
WAVELAB 30 – 710 Workspaces Creating, renaming and deleting groups Creating You can create new groups as you see fit: Right-click on the group in which you want to create a new group, and select “New group” from the pop-up menu that appears. Enter a name for the group and click OK. Renaming To rename an existing group, right-click it and select Rename from the pop-up menu. Removing To delete a group and remove all files within it from the Workspace, right- click it and select Remove, and click OK in the dialog that appears. This only removes the items from the Workspace. It does not delete any- thing from your disks! File operations Adding files using a dialog To add one or more files to a group, proceed as follows: 1. Right-click on the group to which you want to add the file(s), and select Add from the pop-up menu that appears. 2.In the file dialog, select all the files you want to open. You can select as many files as you wish from the same folder, using [Ctrl] and [Shift]. 3.Click Open. A file can only be added to one group at a time. Adding files by dragging a document You can drag an entire Wave document into the Workspace, by using the drag icon on the title bar of the Wave window. Adding files from a Database You can drag and drop files from a Database to a Workspace, as de- scribed in the section “Drag & Drop between Audio Databases and Workspaces” on page 697.