The audio montage is a multitrack non-destructive editing environment that allows you to arrange, edit, play back, and record audio clips.
You can add VST effect plug-ins to tracks of an audio montage. Track effects affect all clips on a track.
You can add effect plug-ins to every track of the audio montage.
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.
Audio file editing refers to opening, editing, and saving audio files.
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 montage window is where you assemble your audio montage. This is where you view, play back, and edit audio montages.
The tabs in the Audio Montage window give you access to the tools and options you need for editing audio montages. For example, you can edit fades in clips, make zoom settings, and render the audio montage.
The audio signal passes through the various sections of WaveLab Cast in a certain way.
You can create new, empty audio montages with custom audio montage properties.
You can duplicate audio montages in various ways. This allows you to quickly create new audio montages using the same properties and audio files as previously created audio montages.
In the Audio Montage Properties, you can define the sample rate of the audio montage.
An audio montage consists of references to one or multiple audio files. These references can be broken if you move audio files to another location on your hard disk, for example. WaveLab Cast detects broken references and allows you to specify new file locations or replace the missing audio file with another audio file.
You assemble your audio montage by adding tracks and clips.
All clips are displayed in the Clips window. In this window, you can edit and rearrange clips and drag them into the audio montage.
You can edit files that are used in the current audio montage in the Audio Editor.
For clips in the audio montage, you can create envelopes for volume and fades, and for panning.
Ducking allows you to control the level of an audio track with another audio track.
A fade in is a gradual increase in level and a fade out is a gradual decrease in level. A crossfade is a gradual fade between two sounds, where one is faded in and the other faded out.
This window allows you to clean up and enhance your audio, add effect plug-ins to tracks, and make gain and pan settings. You can use the DeEsser, DeNoiser, and DeHummer to clean your audio. The Voice Exciter, Reverb, EQ, and Maximizer allow you to enhance your audio.
The order of the effects in the list determines the processing order.
You can undo/redo changes to the effect settings. However, WaveLab Cast only registers the changes when you close the plug-in window or select another tab in the plug-in window.
You can set the Gain of the effects for each track individually.
The Render function allows you to mix down the whole audio montage or a region of it to a single audio file.
You can import audio CD files. The imported audio CD opens as an audio montage.
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.
