Steinberg WaveLab 7 Operation Manual

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5.5 Specific tool windows
Specific tool windows are windows that are specific to the current Workspace. They can
perform useful tasks in the active Workspace.
They can be docked and un-docked, and saved in your custom layouts.
Audio File Workspace specific tool windows
The following specific tool windows are available within the Audio File Workspace:
Basic Audio CD
Error detection and correction
File Browser
Marker...

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tab or document icon. This creates CD track markers at the file edges, quantized on
CD frame boundaries.
ˆ Drag an audio selection - dragging a selection (rather than a whole file) into the
basic audio CD creates a CD track with markers at the edges, but quantized on CD
frame boundaries, not necessarily exactly on the exact position of the selection edges.
ˆ Browse for Audio Files - selectFile>Add track(s)... from the Basic Audio CD
menu. You can then select Audio Files to insert in...

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pauses and silences in your CD. The Master Section is never used to process the signal to
burn, unlike in the montage. This is why playback through the Master Section is an option
that is off by default.
When you are happy with your CD layout or you wish to further refine it further you can:
ˆ Check CD conformity - before burning your CD you can first check its Red Book
conformity by choosing Edit>Check CD conformity .
ˆ Write audio CD - choose to burn the CD using the
Write...

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Strategies to detect and correct errors
There are several strategies that you can employ when detecting and correcting errors:
ˆ Define an audio selection where you have identified an error, then click "Correct", or
"Mark for subsequent correction".
ˆ Use the function "Detect next error" to let WaveLab automatically find the next error,
and then click "Correct", or "Mark for subsequent correction".
ˆ Use the function "Detect all errors"...

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Opening and inserting a file or region
Once you have chosen a file you wish to open, double-click it to open the file in the current
Workspace. You can also open it by dragging it onto an empty tabbed group, or onto the
tab bar of a tabbed group.
You can also drag the file over a wave view to insertit at a given point. When you drag a file
over a wave view, a beam is displayed so as to clearly display the insertion point.
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ˆ Change marker types - You can change a marker type by (left) clicking on its icon
and choosing another marker type from the pop-up list that appears.
ˆ Edit a marker's name/time/comments - double click in a cell to edit a value (to
align the marker to an exact time, for instance). You can edit the name of the marker,
its time position and any comments.
ˆ Lock a marker's position - select the checkbox to lock the marker. This prevents it
from being accidentally dragged to...

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5.5.6 Sample attributes
This dialog allows you to define settings for an audio sample before loading it into a hardware
or software sampler.
The settings do not process the sample in any way, they just give the file properties that the
receiving sampler can use. This includes information about the pitch of the sample (which
can be detected automatically by WaveLab), the key range that the sample should span, and
the velocity range to occupy. For WAV and AIFF files, this...

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5.5.8 Spectrum editor
This specific tool window allows you to select and perform operations on an Audio File via
its audio spectrum.
It uses high quality linear-phase filters to process a spectrum selection both in the time do-
main and in the frequency domain. This can be useful for advanced audio restoration tasks
like removing noise from a specific source in a recording, for example.
Making and editing selections
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ˆ Selection - use this part to refine and define your selection(s). You can expand se-
lections, shift selections around and define a source and target region for performing
copy operations.
ˆ Operations - use this part to perform copying, filtering and processing operations.
For copying operations, you require both a source and a target region to have been
defined using the Selection tab. You can choose which method to copy audio between
the Source and Target regions. You can...

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For an explanation of each parameter and interface feature, click on , or the 'What's this?'
question mark icon. For more information see
Getting Help
Related topics
The Spectrum display
Spectrum Processing Modes
Spectrogram options
Spectrometer
5.5.8.1 Spectrum Processing Modes
When applying processing to a spectrum region in the
Spectrum Editor you can use a variety
of different modes:
Damp
This is used to attenuate the level of a region. The Gain parameter specifies...