Steinberg Wavelab Le 8 Manual

Program Overview
Presets
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Deleting a Preset
PROCEDURE
1.Open the dialog that you want to use and select the preset that you 
want to delete.
2. Click the Presets menu, and select Organize presets.
3. In the Explorer window, select the preset file that you want to 
delete, and press [Delete].
Storing and Restoring Temporary Presets
Some dialogs allow you to save and load up to 5 temporary presets. This 
is useful if you want to quickly test and compare different settings.
Storing Presets
PROCEDURE...

Program Overview
Saving a Picture of the Active Window
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Saving a Picture of the Active Window
You can save a picture of the active window in the BMP, JPG/JPEG, or 
PNG file format, or copy it to the clipboard.
NOTE
Plug-in windows are not included in the picture.
PROCEDURE
1. Click in the window for which you want to save a picture.
For example, click in the wave window or the montage window.
2. In the Audio Files workspace or the Audio Montage workspace, 
select View > Save picture of active window....

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File Operations
Recently Used Files
All files that you have recently used in WaveLab LE are saved in a list. 
This helps you to gain fast access to recent projects. You can open 
recently used files via the File menu.
Setting the Number of Recently Used Files
PROCEDURE
1.In any workspace, select Options (WaveLab menu on Mac) > 
Global preferences > Display.
2. In the Miscellaneous options section, set the maximum number 
of items that you want to list in the following areas:
• Recent file menus
3....

File Operations
Save and Save As
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• In the Audio Files workspace, all save operations except Save 
Copy clear the undo history, which means that after saving you 
cannot undo or redo.
About Tab Colors
Tab colors give information on whether a file is saved or not.
The following colors can be shown:
Orange
The file is saved.
Green (Audio Files workspace only)
The file uses a decoded file format and is saved.
Purple
A new file that is not empty but has not been saved yet. For 
example, when creating a new...

File Operations
Save and Save As
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Save Multiple Files at Once
You can save some or all open files at once.
PROCEDURE
1.In any workspace, except the Control Window, select File > Save 
all.
2. Select the files that you want to save.
3. Click Save.
Reverting to Saved File
You can revert the file you are working on back to its last saved state. 
This undoes all the changes made to the file since it was last saved.
PROCEDURE
1.In any workspace, except the Control Window, select File > 
Revert to saved.
2....

File Operations
File Renaming
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About Saving Audio Montages
The saving operations for audio montages are the same as for audio 
files. However, there are things to note when saving audio montages.
•Audio montage files only contain references to audio files. If you 
want to rename audio files referenced by audio montages, use the 
Rename dialog. All clip references are updated automatically.
• If the audio montage contains clips that refer to untitled audio files, 
save these audio files before saving...

File Operations
File Renaming
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Rename File Dialog
In this dialog, you can choose a new file name, file extension, and folder 
location for the active file.
In any workspace, except the Control Window, select File > Rename.
Name
Type in the new name.
File extension drop-down list
Select a case for the file extension.
Change folder
If this option is activated, you can change the folder location of the 
file.
NOTE
This is only possible within the same drive partition.
Keep as default
If this option is...

File Operations
Deleting Files
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Deleting Files
You can delete the currently active file from within WaveLab LE.
PREREQUISITE 
The file that you want to delete is not copied to the clipboard, is not 
pasted into another file that is open, and is not open in another 
application.
PROCEDURE
1. Select the file that you want to delete.
2. In any workspace, except the Control Window, select File > 
Delete.
3. Click OK.
RESULT 
The file, including it’s peak and marker files, is deleted.
Special Menu
From this...

File Operations
Temporary Files
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Create a file link on the desktop (Windows only)
Creates a file link on the desktop. The link opens the file with the 
default application associated with the file type.
Temporary Files
Temporary files are used for certain operations, such as the undo/redo 
functions. You can specify where WaveLab LE saves its temporary files.
For example, if your source files are located on the C: drive, you could 
specify D:	emp and E:	emp as temporary folders. This improves the...

File Operations
Work Folders vs. Document Folders
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5. Optional: Depending on the selected type of folder, you can make 
additional settings.
6. Click OK.
Folders Dialog
In this dialog, you can specify default document folders and work folders 
for each workspace.
In any workspace, select Options > Folders.
In the list to the left, you specify the folder type that you want to make 
settings for. The following options are available:
Folder for temporary files
Specify a folder for storing temporary...