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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 Leveler Multi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375
12.39 Peak Master . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
12.40 Silence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
12.41 Stereo Expander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
12.42 Internal Dithering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 378
13 Utilities 379
13.1 Import Audio CD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
13.2 Burn Audio CD from DDP Image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
13.3 Data CD/DVD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 380
13.4 Batch Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
13.5 Batch Renaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
13.6 Log window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383
13.7 Background task monitor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
13.8 Timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
14 How do I... 387
14.1 ... import songs from an audio CD into WaveLab? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
14.2 ... use VST Plug-ins? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
14.3 ... edit an existing Audio File? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
14.4 ... compile and edit several Audio Files on multiple tracks? . . . . . . . . . . . 388
14.5 ... apply processing to an Audio File? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
14.6 ... convert an Audio File into another audio format? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
14.7 ... play back with real-time effects? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
14.8 ... record new Audio File? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
14.9 ... convert the sample rate of an Audio File? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
14.10 ... create a Podcast? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390
14.11 ... open an aac, m4a or m4p Audio File from Apple iTunes? . . . . . . . . . . 390
15 Glossary 391
15.1 ADPCM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
15.2 AES31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
15.3 AIFF files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
15.4 Apple Lossless files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
15.5 ALAW files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
15.6 Aliasing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
15.7 Amplitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
15.8 ASIO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
15.9 Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
15.10 Audio montage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
15.11 Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
15.12 Bit depth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
15.13 Blu-ray Disk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 396
15.14 CD Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
15.15 CD Pre-emphasis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
15.16 CD Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
15.17 Chorus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
15.18 Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
15.19 Clipping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 398
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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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 399
15.25 Decibel (dB) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
15.26 Dithering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
15.27 DVD-A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 400
15.28 ECMAScript . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
15.29 Ensoniq Paris files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
15.30 Equalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
15.31 FFT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
15.32 Focused Clip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 401
15.33 Formant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
15.34 FTP Site . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
15.35 Headroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
15.36 ISO image . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
15.37 ISRC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 402
15.38 Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
15.39 Loudness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
15.40 Markers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 403
15.41 Media Catalog Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
15.42 MIDI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
15.43 MIDI Channels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
15.44 Mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
15.45 Mobile phone Audio Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
15.46 MP2 files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
15.47 MP3 files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
15.48 Non-destructive editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
15.49 Normalize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405
15.50 NTSC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
15.51 Ogg Vorbis files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
15.52 OSQ files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
15.53 PAL/SECAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 406
15.54 Pan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
15.55 Peak level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
15.56 Plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
15.57 Pre-roll and Post-roll . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
15.58 Preset system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
15.59 Processor cores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
15.60 Quantization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 408
15.61 Raw PCM files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
15.62 Red Book CD-DA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
15.63 Regular Expressions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 409
15.64 RF64 files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
15.65 RMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
15.66 Sample rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
15.67 SMPTE timecode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410
15.68 Sound Designer II files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
15.69 Spectrogram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
15.70 Sun/Java files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
15.71 Tempo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
15.72 Text/Excel files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
15.73 ULAW files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 412
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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
15.79 WMA files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
15.80 Zero crossing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 413
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							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
Getting Help
Using the interface
WaveLab Concepts
Audio File editing
Audio Montages
Batch Processing
Podcasts
Control Window
Master Section
Master Project
Interface Elements
Audio Plug-ins
Utilities
How do I...
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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. This is a quick way to learn about the more detailed features of
WaveLab.
When a Context menu is open, holding down [Shift]+[F1] allows the "What is This?" mode
to activate while the menu is open, and this is actually the only way to get help for Context
menu features.
It is worth noting too that "What is This?" help is sometimes available for sub-parts of controls,
such as List headers.
Tooltips
Hold your cursor over a button to show a brief description of its function wherever available.
Help window
This window provides you with detailed information on WaveLab's features and functionality.
You can access this help window in several ways:
ˆ via the Help menu. See Help menu .
ˆ from each dialog window provided with a Help button. This opens the Help window at
the relevant entry.
ˆ by pressing [F1]/[Command]+[?]. If a window is active, the Help window opens to the
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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 place on screen.
ˆ Index...
This accesses an Index to Help entries. Type in the "Look for:" box, or scroll down the
alphabetical list. If there is more than one entry for the Index item, you'll be given a
choice of entries to be displayed, in the "Choose Topic" box.
ˆ Search...
Type the name of the topic you wish to find in the "Search for:" box. If more than one
topic is found to match the search string, a list is displayed: click on the most likely
entry to display the topic. If there are too many entries, you can refine the search by
clicking on [+] "Advanced search".
ˆ Bookmarks...
Click the [+] Add button to add the displayed topic to the list of Bookmarked favorites.
Now you can return to the entry speedily.
ˆ What is this?
This gives a short "Tooltip" explanation by pointing and clicking on the interface feature
you need information on. This can also be used to get help on any menu item. Acti-
vate the question mark icon by selecting "What is this?" from the Help system; using
[Shift] +[F1]; or by selecting
from the command bar button.
ˆ Steinberg on the internet - This fly-out menu opens a window on your browser with
the appropriate URL to support, update, upgrade or register WaveLab. You can also
access the Steinberg Home Page.
Related topics
Getting Help
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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 groups of but-
tons in the Toolbar. You can slide and quickly partition different panes (areas) of the WaveLab
window.It's easy to set up different layouts for different projects and switch between them.
WaveLab has distinct Workspaces where you can work on a "session". Each Workspace
lets you collect a number of files that you want to keep together. This could be all of the
Audio Files used in a single song for instance, or all the Audio Files that go to make up a
Podcast episode.
Tip: If you're a user of Nuendo (a Steinberg product), don't forget that you can drag files
directly from within WaveLab.
Related topics
About Tool Windows
Adjusting Envelopes
Command bars
Context menus
Docking windows
Double clicking
Dragging operations
Playback shortcuts
Select-clicking
Shortcut system
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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 windows - these are dedicated to a given Workspace type. The File
Browser and Marker windows are examples of specific tool windows.
ˆ Shared tool windows - Only one instance of these windows can exist at any one
time in WaveLab, and it can be shared between Workspaces. The Master Section is
an example of a shared window and as such there is only ever one instance of it.
All tool windows can be accessed via the Workspace menu. See
Docking windows for
information on docking and undocking tool windows.
Specific Tool windows
Specific tool windows are specific to the current Workspace and are dedicated to that
Workspace type. They perform useful tasks in the active Workspace. The File Browser
and Marker windows are examples of specific tool windows.
Specific tool windows can be docked and un-docked anywhere within their Workspace,
and saved in your custom layouts. They can also float as standalone windows in a specific
Workspace.
Shared tool windows
Shared tool windows are shared between certain Workspaces and are independent of any
one Workspace. Like specific tool windows, they can be docked and un-docked, and saved
in your custom layouts. The Master Section is an example of a shared window.
The main difference with Specific tool windows is that only one instance of a Shared tool
window can exist at any one time in WaveLab. When you open a shared tool window that is
referenced in another Workspace it will "move" from the other Workspace to the active one.
A shared tool window can be moved and docked exactly like a specific tool window, how-
ever in addition Shared tool windows can "float as an independent window", that is, inde-
pendent of any Workspace. Each shared tool window has a menu entry to allow this floating
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