Steinberg WaveLab Essential 6 Operation Manual

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About the Edit Properties dialog
The Edit Properties dialog can be opened in three ways:
 By selecting an object and selecting “Edit Properties” from 
the Objects menu
 By right-clicking an object and selecting the same item from 
the speed menu 
 By double-clicking an object 
The contents of the dialog varies depending on the object 
type.
The Objects menu
The Objects menu can be selected from the toolbar, or 
opened by right-clicking an object (speed menu). The 
items on the Objects...

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ÖSaved label sets (with the extension *.lab) contain all 
the layout work performed in the Label Editor.
It is, however, not dynamic. This means that if you have added to or 
changed the Data CD/DVD Project, Audio CD Montage, etc. in any way 
after saving a label set, these changes will not be reflected in the saved 
label set, unless you save it as a user template (see below).
Saving a label set
To save a label set, select “Save” or “Save As…” from the 
File menu with the Label...

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3.Double-click in the Description column beside the 
new variable to open a text box where an appropriate de-
scription can be typed in.
For example “Producer”.
4.Double-click in the Current Value column to enter the 
relevant information for the new variable, i.e. the name of 
the producer.
5.To create a code that can be used to refer to the vari-
able in the Label Editor, type in an appropriate name be-
ginning and ending with “%” in the Code column.
To use the earlier example, this...

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Printing
Printing is done independently for the three label types. 
However, there are two settings that are global for all 
three label types:
1.Pull down the Options pop-up menu and select “Pref-
erences”.
The “Label editor preferences” dialog appears.
2.Use the “Printing” checkboxes to determine whether 
the frames around the labels should be printed, and 
whether cut markers should be printed (making it easier to 
cut out the labels from the printed paper).
Now, you are ready to...

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Global analysis
Introduction
What does the “Global analysis” dialog do?
This dialog allows you to perform advanced analysis on 
your audio to find certain areas with specified properties. 
It can be used to find problem areas (glitches, distortion), 
etc., or to check general information such as the pitch of a 
sound.
How does it work?
When you analyse a section of an audio file, the program 
scans it and extracts overall information which it displays 
in the dialog.
However, during...

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Setting parameters and performing the analysis
1.Set up the parameters.
On most of the tabs, you will find settings determining ex-
actly how the analysis should be performed. For example, 
on the Peaks tab there are two parameters:
 “Maximum number…” allows you to set an upper limit for the 
number of peaks reported. For example, if you set this to “10”, 
the program will only report the ten highest peaks in the file.
 “Minimum time…” allows you to specify the minimum interval 
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The markers are named using the following principle: “Hot 
point number” (“Channel”). For example, a marker at the 
third “hot point” in the left channel would be labelled “3 
(L)”.
Focusing
You can also focus the display on a certain “hot point”:
1.Use the “Number of hot points” scroll bar to move the 
position indicator to the position you are interested in.
2.Click the Focus button.
Now two things happen:
The wave display zooms in on the selected point.
The “Global analysis” dialog is...

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 “Maximum number…” and “Minimum time…” are the same as 
on the Peaks tab, see above.
Result
The Result fields show you the following values:
The Pitch tab
The Pitch tab shows the values from WaveLab Essential’s 
extremely accurate pitch detection algorithm. This can be 
used for pitch shifting, for example, to get one sound in 
tune with another.
There are no parameters to set. The display shows the 
pitch for each channel, both in Hertz (Hz) and as semi-
tones and cents (hundredths of a...

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The Errors tab
This tab actually reports two totally separate things:
Glitches
These are disruptions in the audio. Glitches may occur after problematic 
digital transfers, after careless editing, etc. They manifest themselves as 
“clicks” or “pops” in the audio.
Clipping
A digital system has a finite number of levels that it can represent prop-
erly. When a sound has been recorded at too high a level or when digital 
processing has raised the level past what the system can handle, hard...