Steinberg WaveLab 7 Operation Manual

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12.33 UV22HR Dithering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369
12.34 Steinberg Vintage Compressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
12.35 Steinberg VST Dynamics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
12.36 Crystal Resampler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
12.37 Leveler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
12.38...

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15.20 Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
15.21 Cross fade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
15.22 DAW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
15.23 DC Offset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
15.24 DDP files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

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15.74 UPC/EAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
15.75 WAV files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
15.76 WAV64 files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
15.77 Waveform . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
15.78 Wet/Dry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413...

Chapter 1
WaveLab 7 Help
Welcome to the WaveLab Help browser. You can expand the tree structure in the panel on
the left (under the Contents tab) to find individual Help topics. You can also use the Index
and Bookmarks tabs, in addition to a powerful Search feature (under the Search tab).
Please see
Getting Help for more ways of using the Help browser and other help features
available throughout WaveLab.
For a quick overview of the features provided in WaveLab see
Features Overview .
Top-level topics...

2 WaveLab 7 Help
WaveLab 7 

Chapter 2
Getting Help
WaveLab's detailed help system makes it easy to look up interface features and get informa-
tion from within the program. There are three main types of help available:
What is this?
Access this by clicking on the
icon, or the question mark icon in a dialog window titlebar,
or by holding down [Shift]+[F1]. Once activated, the cursor changes to a question mark.
Click on an interface feature for information on what it does and details of any settings/-
values/functions involved....

4 Getting Help
Related topics
Help menu
Command bars
2.1 Help menu
The Help menu gives you a convenient point of access to WaveLab's Help system.
ˆ Help about the active window...
Select this (or press [F1]/[Command]+[?]) to give help on the active window. If a dialog
box is open, the dialog is described.
ˆ Contents...
This lists the Help contents as a "tree structure" in the Contents window. Like many
WaveLab windows, you can make this a floating window, if you want to park it in a
convenient...

Chapter 3
Using the interface
This section gives information on interface features that may not be obvious and which may
help to speed up your workflow, especially as your experience with WaveLab increases.
WaveLab is incredibly flexible in the ways that you can set up your working environment.
Interface elements can be arranged to suit your workflow, the type of project you are creating
and the size and number of your displays.
You can move, reorder and detach windows and tabs from frames and tear off...

6 Using the interface
Switcher window
Tab Groups
Transport controls
Value editing
Workspaces
Zooming and scrolling
3.1 About Tool Windows
Throughout WaveLab there are various tool windows available that enable you to view, an-
alyze and edit the current active document. Generally the content of a tool window is syn-
chronized with the active document, with the exception of the audio meters which can display
information related to other documents.
There are two types of Tool windows:
ˆ Specific tool...