Audio file editing refers to opening, editing, and saving audio files.
This section describes the principal editing operations within the Audio Editor.
You can copy sections of audio within the same file or between audio files.
The following list informs you about the most important improvements in WaveLab Cast and provides links to the corresponding descriptions.
Welcome to WaveLab Cast! If you record, edit and publish podcasts, if you create video content for the likes of Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo or other social media, or if you record interviews or small groups of people in areas such as worship – then WaveLab Cast is the perfect choice for creating perfect audio.
Before you start working, you need to make some settings.
This chapter describes general concepts that you will use when working with WaveLab Cast. Getting accustomed with these procedures allows you to work more effectively with the program.
The Workspace window provides an editing and playback environment for each particular file type. Each environment contains functions that are tailored to the specific purpose of each file type.
In WaveLab Cast, you can handle files in various ways. For example, rename files from within WaveLab Cast or save files in various ways.
This chapter describes the methods for controlling playback and transport functions.
The wave window in the Audio Editor displays audio files graphically. Here, you view, play back, and edit individual audio files.
The Edit tab provides you with tools for editing your audio files.
WaveLab Cast is very flexible in its handling of stereo. All editing operations can be performed on either one channel or on both.
WaveLab Cast can open and save audio files in a number of file formats.
You can create an empty audio file, to assemble material from other audio files, for example.
You can change the file format, sampling frequency, bit depth, and stereo/mono status when saving.
Audio can be saved in different formats. The process of converting audio to another format is called encoding. When saving audio files, you can specify various encoding options for some file formats.
You can turn selections into new files via drag and drop or via the context menu in the wave window.
You can convert audio files from mono to stereo and from stereo to mono. Converting a mono file into a stereo file produces an audio file that contains the same material in both channels, for example for further processing into real stereo. Converting a stereo file into a mono file mixes the stereo channels to a mono channel.
On the Paste pop-up menu in the Audio Editor, you find additional paste options.
You can rearrange the order of the audio in a file by dragging, and cutting and pasting.
When you drag or copy stereo or mono files to other locations, the target location determines how the files are inserted.
If you copy or move audio from one window to another, and the sample rates of the two files are not the same, the copied/moved sound plays back at the wrong pitch (speed). The program warns you if this is about to happen.
You can render regions of an audio files or whole audio files to a single audio file.
You can change the sample rate and bit depth of audio files.
Metadata consists of attributes that describe the audio contents, for example, the title of the track, the author, or the recording date of the track. Depending on the file format of the selected audio file, this data varies.
This dialog allows you to insert silence in an audio file.
You can replace a part in an audio file with tone to cover a swear word, for example.
The Pen tool allows you to redraw the waveform in the wave window. This can be used to quickly repair waveform errors. The Pen tool can be used if the zoom resolution is set to 1:8 (one pixel on the screen equals 8 samples) or higher.
WaveLab Cast provides you with a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing your audio and for detecting any errors.
Offline processes are useful for a variety of editing purposes and creative effects, for example, if the computer is too slow for real-time processing or if the editing requires more than one pass.
The audio montage is a multitrack non-destructive editing environment that allows you to arrange, edit, play back, and record audio clips.
You can record audio in the Audio Editor and in the Audio Montage window.
The Master Section is the final block in the signal path before the audio is sent to the audio hardware, to an audio file, or to the audio meters. This is where you adjust the master levels and add effects.
Markers allow you to save and name specific positions in a file. Markers are useful for editing and playback.
WaveLab Cast contains a variety of audio meters that you can use for monitoring and analyzing audio. Meters can be used to monitor audio during playback, rendering, and recording. Furthermore, you can use them to analyze audio sections when playback is stopped.
Looping a sound allows you to repeat a section of the sample indefinitely in order to create a sustain of unlimited length. Instrumental sounds in samplers rely on looping organ sounds, for example.
You can read audio tracks from regular CDs and save them as a digital copy in any audio format on your hard disk.
WaveLab Cast allows you to add video files to your audio montage. You can play back video files in various formats from within WaveLab Cast, extract the audio from a video file, and edit your audio alongside the video.
A Podcast is an episodic series that consists of audio files. Users can stream or download Podcasts to their device and listen to it. WaveLab Cast with its audio editing tools and effects allows you to create Podcast episodes and upload these episodes to various host services.
Podcasting is a method of distributing multimedia files over the Internet, for example, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Podcasts are distributed via the RSS standard (Rich Site Summary).
Customizing means making settings so that the program behaves and looks the way that you want it to.
You can configure WaveLab Cast according to your needs.