Steinberg WaveLab Essential 6 Operation Manual

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Waveform elements
To change the waveform elements, right-click on a wave-
form (in the overview or in the main display), select Ele-
ments and then select the desired item from the submenu 
that appears.
Colors
To set the color of a certain element in the display, right-
click in the Wave window, select Colors and then select 
an element from the submenu that appears. In the stan-
dard Windows color dialog that appears, select or define 
a color and click OK.
ÖFor the display background...

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Defining custom colors
You can redefine all colors on the Color pop-up menus, as 
well as the colors for various other elements in the Audio 
CD Montage. This is done in the Audio CD Montage Col-
ors dialog, using the following procedure:
1.Pull down the View menu and select “Audio CD Mon-
tage colors…”.
The Audio CD Montage Colors dialog appears. For the menu item to 
be available, the 
active window must be a Montage window.
2.In the Items list, select the element for which you want 
to...

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The color elements
Clip colors
Under the heading Clip Colors you can select colors for 
various elements in the following clip types:
For each item, you can select colors for a number of differ-
ent clip elements. You can make separate adjustments for 
the left and right sides of a stereo clip, though by default, 
editing a color for the left side will automatically change 
the same setting for the right side and vice versa (see 
“Defining custom colors” on page 182). For mono clips, 
the...

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To modify an existing window layout, set up the display 
as you want it, select the window layout in the dialog and 
click the Update button.
To load an existing window layout, select it in the dialog 
and click Load.
Using key sequences
You can use key sequences for recalling window layouts, 
just as with many other items (see “Customizable key 
commands” on page 184). This can be used for quick and 
easy window control. For example, open a single docu-
ment window, maximize it, save a...

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About the list of operations
The main part of this dialog is occupied by the list of avail-
able operations that can be called up via key sequences. 
You can choose to view this list in one of two ways, with 
the “Sort” buttons in the upper right corner of the dialog:
 “Sort by Command” organizes the operations in folders, in 
groupings that relate to various sections in the program.
 “Sort by Key” lists all commands in a “flat” fashion (no folders), 
and sorts the list alphabetically via...

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“Exclude windows” allows you to prevent this situation:
1.Click the “Exclude windows” button.
2.Type in the name of the window in the Window exclu-
sion list.
You can include DOS “wildcard” characters. For example to exclude all 
products from the manufacturer Waves, you can type “Waves*”.
3.Close the window.
Using key sequences
To use a key sequence, press the keys/buttons specified 
in the dialog, and the corresponding operation is per-
formed.
About some special key commands
There are...

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Groups
In the Master Section folder in the list, you will find sub-
folders, representing groups of plug-ins.
By organizing your plug-ins into folders, you arrange the 
way they ap
pear on menus in the program. How you orga-
nize your effects is of course up to you, but initially, they 
are categorized according to their technical “type”, regular 
WaveLab Essential plug-ins in one folder, VST plug-ins in 
another, DirectX plug-ins in yet another, etc. (see “The Ef-
fects pane” on page 85...

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If you want to restore everything to the default “factory 
settings”, click “Set default”.
Handling VST plug-ins
If you have VST plug-ins installed on your computer that 
you don’t need in WaveLab Essential, you can tell the pro-
gram to ignore these on launch. This is done in the Prefer-
ences–VST dialog. It is possible to exclude single VST 
plug-ins, entire folders and subfolders containing VST 
plug-ins, and the “Shared VST Plug-ins” folder (if present 
on your system). The methods...

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Quit WaveLab Essential and then launch the program 
again.
If you check the effect menus, you will find that the plug-ins in the speci-
fied folders are removed.
If you change your mind and want to use the ignored 
plug-ins again, repeat the steps above but remove the 
folder names from the text field.
Excluding all plug-ins
If you wish, you can temporarily exclude all plug-ins so that 
none will be available in WaveLab Essential:
Press and hold [Ctrl]+[Shift] when launching WaveLab...

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Plug-in processor reference