Steinberg WaveLab Elements 7 Operation Manual

Chapter 13
Glossary
A B C D E F G H I J
K L M N O P Q R S T
U V W X Y Z
A
ADPCM AES31 AIFF files Apple Lossless files ALAW files Aliasing Amplitude ASIO Attack
Audio montage
B
Bandwidth Bit depth Blu-ray Disk
C
CD Frame CD Pre-emphasis CD Text Chorus Clip Clipping Compression Cross fade
D
DAW DC Offset DDP files Decibel (dB) Dithering DVD-A
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FFT Focused Clip Formant FTP Site
G
No entries available.
H
Headroom
I
ISO image ISRC
J
No entries available.
K
No entries available.
L
Loops Loudness
M
Markers Media Catalog Number MIDI MIDI Channels Mixing Mobile phone Audio Files MP2
files
MP3 files
N
Non-destructive editing Normalize NTSC
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Ogg Vorbis files OSQ files
P
PAL/SECAM Pan Peak level Plug-ins Pre-roll and Post-roll Preset system Processor cores
Q
Quantization
R
Raw PCM files Red Book CD-DA Regular Expressions RF64 files RMS
S
Sample rate SMPTE timecode Sound Designer II files Spectrogram Sun/Java files
T
Tempo Text/Excel files
U
ULAW files UPC/EAN
V
No entries available.
W
WAV files WAV64 files Waveform Wet/Dry WMA files
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No entries available.
Y
No entries available.
Z
Zero crossing
13.1 ADPCM
ADPCM – Microsoft/Dialogic is an audio file format commonly used for games and tele-
phony applications that offers a lower bit rate than linear PCM and thus requires less storage
space/bandwidth.
The file extension is .vox or .adpcm
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13.2 AES31
The AES31 Standard is a non-proprietary audio file format developed by the Audio Engi-
neering Society Standards Committee (AESSC). Its aim is to allow a project...

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Typical filename extensions are .aiff, .aif, .aifc, .snd.
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13.4 Apple Lossless files
ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. for loss-
less data compression of digital audio. Also known as Apple Lossless and Apple Lossless
Encoder (ALE), ALAC audio data is stored within the MP4 container and uses the mathe-
matical technique of linear prediction to achieve a file size reduction between 60% to 40%,
depending on the audio...

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13.9 Attack
Attack is the initial part of the sound. An attack is said to be fast when the maximum am-
plitude is reached very quickly (with percussive sounds from drums, guitar or piano, for ex-
ample). Orchestral strings generally have slow attack, where the volume increases more
slowly.
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13.10 Audio montage
An Audio Montage is a compilation of audio Clips composited together. In WaveLab Ele-
ments the Audio Montage Workspace allows you to compile and...

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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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13.17 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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13.18 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...

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Steinberg Compressor
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13.21 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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13.22 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 very highly specified PC or Macintosh computers, equipped with...

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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 practice" for disk replicators, who will upload the image file to
their network and burn a glass master directly from the image using specialist hardware/soft-
ware. CIRC error-correction will assure that the data matches the original, or it will stop the
process.
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13.25 Decibel (dB)
Decibel (dB) is a logarithmic unit of...