Steinberg WaveLab 7 Operation Manual

15.14 CD Frame 397
The name "Blu-ray" derives from the 405 nanometer blue-violet laser used to read the disk
(standard DVDs use a 650nm red laser, CDs use 780nm). The shorter wavelength allows for
five or 10 times more data storage than a DVD although a recent development has pushed
the storage capacity to 500GB on a single disc by using 20 layers. In addition to optical
improvements, Blu-ray Disks feature improvements in data encoding that further increase
their capacity.
Data CD/DVD
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15.17 Chorus
Chorus is an time-based effect produced by combining the original signal with a number of
moving delays and pitch shifted copies, often panned across a stereo field.
Steinberg Chorus
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15.18 Clip
Clip A Clip contains a reference to a source Audio File on your hard disk, as well as start and
end positions in the file (allowing Clips to play back smaller sections of their source Audio
Files). Any number of Clips can reference the same source file.
Note that a Clip is...

15.21 Cross fade 399
Steinberg Compressor
Steinberg Multiband Compressor
Steinberg Vintage Compressor
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15.21 Cross fade
Cross fade is mixing two audio signals by fading one out at the same time as fading the
other in.
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15.22 DAW
DAW A Digital Audio Workstation is a software and hardware system dedicated to recording,
editing and playing back digital audio tracks on hard disk.
Because of the computational demands of audio editing and mastering, DAWs are often
based on...

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and so protects both the audio data and its associated metadata.
The DDP image is a data file, and when burned to optical media, is a data disc. As such,
it has the full measure of CIRC error-correction to allow error-free copying of files on your
computer and across networks (including the internet). It’s also why you often need a DVD-R
to contain a DDP image of a CD, because the data redundancy is more robust in data form
than in streaming audio form.
Sending DDP files is "best...

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rate and channel combinations can be used on a single disk.
DVD-Audio
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15.28 ECMAScript
WaveLab's scripting language is based on the ECMAScriptscripting language, as defined
in "Standard ECMA-262 - ECMAScript Language Specification".
Microsoft's JScript, Netscape's JavaScript and Adobe's Actionscript are also based on the
freely-available ECMAScript standard.
ECMAScript Reference
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15.29 Ensoniq Paris files
Ensoniq Paris is an...

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15.33 Formant
Formants are the distinguishing frequency components of a sound.
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15.34 FTP Site
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a network protocol used to copy a file from one host to another
over a TCP/IP-based network such as the Internet. An FTP sitemay require user-based
password authentication or it may allow anonymous user access. Podcasts are published to
FTP sites.
Publish menu
FTP site
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15.35 Headroom
Headroom is the amount by which...

15.38 Loops 403
ˆ Country Code (2 ASCII characters)
ˆ Registrant Code (typically, a record label - 3 ASCII characters or digits)
ˆ Recording Year (2 digits or ASCII characters)
ˆ Serial Number (unique number identifying the recording - 5 digits or ASCII characters).
The groups of characters are often presented with hyphens to make them easier to read, but
hyphens are not part of the code.
Authoring CDs and DVDs
Burn Audio CD from DDP Image
UPC/EAN
Import Audio CD
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15.38 Loops
Loops are...

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15.41 Media Catalog Number
The MCN (Media Catalog Number) is a 13-digit code for an optical disk intended for
commercial distribution - there is one such code per disk. See
UPC/EAN .
You can read the Media Catalog Number (EAN) from a CD by choosing Utilities>Import
Audio CD tracks... >Functions >CD Info... .
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15.42 MIDI
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) is an industry standard that allows devices
such as synthesizers and computers...

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15.46 MP2 files
MP2 (MPEG-1, audio layer 2) is an audio encoding format defined by ISO/IEC 11172-3,
alongside MPEG-1 and MPEG-3, using lossy audio compression. The three audio "layers"
(MP1, MP2 and MP3) are different perceptual encoding techniques.
MP2 remains an important format for broadcast audio and is part of DAB digital radio and
DVB digital television standards. It is also the audio format used in HDV camcorders. MP2
files are sometimes referred to "Musicam files"....

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Steinberg Limiter
Steinberg Maximizer
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15.50 NTSC
NTSC (from the US "National Television System Committee") is the analog television system
used in North America, parts of South America, Japan and some Pacific territories.
NTSC has 29.97 interlaced frames of video per second - a field refresh frequency of 59.94Hz
(actually 60Hz/1.001). Each frame consists of a total of 525 scanlines, 486 of which are
visible.
The digital terrestrial television (DTT) replacement for...