An audio montage is a multitrack non-destructive editing environment.
You assemble your audio montage by adding tracks and clips.
The following list informs you about the most important improvements in WaveLab Cast and provides links to the corresponding descriptions.
Welcome to WaveLab Cast! Whether your goal is to record, edit, and publish podcasts, to create video content for social media like Facebook, or to record interviews of small groups of people – WaveLab Cast is always the perfect choice for creating perfect audio!
Once you have set up your system, the Startup Assistant provides easy access to common workflows and the related information, so that you can instantly start working in WaveLab.
Before you can start working, you need to set up your system.
We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the general concepts of WaveLab Cast, to ensure the highest possible efficiency when using the application.
The Workspace window provides a range of editing and playback environments whose functions are tailored to the specific purposes of particular file types.
WaveLab Cast offers you many options to handle your files. For example, you can rename files from within WaveLab Cast or save files in various ways.
WaveLab offers you a wide range of options for playback and transport.
Audio file editing encompasses opening, modifying, and saving audio files.
WaveLab Cast includes a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing your audio and for detecting 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.
WaveLab generates a designated folder for each audio montage that you create. The essential file of an audio montage, the one with the .mon extension, is automatically saved in this folder, which can contain further files or sub-folders related to the audio montage.
The Audio Montage window is where you assemble, 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, adjust the settings for zooming, and render the audio montage.
The audio signal follows a specific path when passing through the various areas of WaveLab Cast.
To create an audio montage, you can either take a top-down approach and start with the general setup or a bottom-up approach; that is, use individual files as the basis.
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 for 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.
Tracks provide the structure for organizing clips. You can add mono tracks, stereo tracks, and video tracks.
The audio files that you insert to audio montages are represented as clips. A clip contains a reference to a source audio file on your hard disk, as well as start and end positions in the file, fades, etc. This allows clips to play back smaller sections of their source audio files.
When you insert audio files into audio montages, the audio files are represented as clips. There are several ways to insert audio files into audio montages.
If the sample rate of your audio montage differs from the sample rates of the audio files that you want to insert into it, WaveLab Cast allows you to adjust either the sample rate of the audio montage itself or the sample rates of copies of the audio files, so that they match.
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 active 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 attenuate the level of an audio track so that the audio on another track is more prominent when both tracks are played back simultaneously.
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.
You can add VST effect plug-ins to tracks of an audio montage. Track effects affect all clips on a track.
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 titles 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.
To optimize cross-application workflows, you can easily insert any audio range from WaveLab into any other audio application by performing simple copy & paste and drag & drop operations.
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.
Customizing means making adjustments to ensure that WaveLab Cast behaves and looks the way that you want it to.
You can configure WaveLab Cast according to your needs.
