Steinberg WaveLab Essential 6 Operation Manual

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Master Section
This function is useful if you are working on several 
projects, since it makes for a convenient way to keep spe-
cific Master Section presets for specific projects well or-
ganized and easily accessible.
Rendering
While the Master Section can perform all processing in 
real time during playback, it’s also possible to save the au-
dio output to a file on disk. This is done with the Render 
function.
There are several uses for Rendering:
Mix down a complete Audio CD Montage to an audio...

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Master Section
Create named file
If this is activated, the resulting new file will be saved (not 
temporary). The field below the checkbox allows you to 
specify a name and location for the file, and you can click 
the audio properties button to set the desired audio for-
mat. Clicking the “Rename as source” button will set the 
file name to the same as the file being processed (but re-
taining any path you have specified above).
ÖIf you click the audio properties button at the bottom 
of the dialog,...

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Master Section
The Monitor window
This window allows you to monitor the ongoing processes 
and check how hard your computer’s CPU is working with 
various tasks.
To open this window, select “Monitor” from the Special-
ized Windows submenu on the View menu or press [Ctrl]-
[F10].
The window has two displays, selected by clicking the 
corresponding tab at the bottom of the window.
The Progress display
The Progress display shows a list with the following col-
umns:
Process menu
Even while a wave is being...

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Master Section
 The yellow lines refer to the power used for providing input to 
the Master Section, i.e. reading waves from disk. Please note 
that the values are an approximation.
 The purple lines indicate the processing power that is re-
quired for all processors currently running in the Master Sec-
tion. The shorter the line, the less the load on the CPU. This is 
a very precise measurement.
 The blue lines reflect the processing power required by the 
output device.
 There is also a number...

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Batch file encoding 

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Batch file encoding
Basic procedure
WaveLab Essential can open and play both uncom-
pressed and compressed files in a number of different for-
mats, including WAV, AIFF, MP3, WMA (Windows Media 
Audio) and OSQ (Original Sound Quality), which is 
WaveLab Essential’s proprietary lossless audio format.
It’s also possible to convert WAV or AIFF files to another 
format. While this can be done by opening a file and se-
lecting “Save As” or “Save Special/Encode” on the File 
menu, you can also convert...

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Markers 

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Markers
Introduction
What are markers for?
Markers allow you to save and name certain positions in a 
file. You can use these positions later on in various ways:
 Set the wave cursor to a marker.
 Select all audio between two markers.
 Loop the section between two markers, etc.
There is no limit to the amount of markers you can have in 
a file.
The various marker types
The following marker types are available:
About marker pairs
Two of the marker types come in pairs: Loop and Region.
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Markers
The Marker toolbar
This is a special control bar for markers. It can be brought 
up from the Control Bars submenu on the View menu.
Creating markers
Dropping markers on the fly
To add a marker on the fly, proceed as follows:
1.Play back the file.
2.When the cursor reaches the position where you want 
a marker, do one of the following:
Press [Insert].
Click the Drop marker button on the Marker toolbar.
Select Drop Marker from the time ruler speed menu.
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Opening the list
To open the marker list, either select “Specialized Win-
dows”/”Wave Marker List” from the View menu, or click 
the corresponding button on the Marker toolbar.
The marker list
To sort the list alphabetically, click on the “Name” head-
ing.
To sort the list according to position, click the “Position” 
heading.
This is the default when you first open the window.
Marker appearance and visibility
Hiding marker heads
To hide/display the marker triangles from the ruler, click 
with...