The audio montage is a multichannel and multitrack non-destructive editing environment that allows you to arrange, edit, play back, and record audio clips.
You assemble your audio montage by adding tracks, clips, and lanes.
The following list informs you about the most important improvements in WaveLab Pro and provides links to the corresponding descriptions.
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Before you start working, you need to make some settings.
This chapter describes general concepts that you will use when working with WaveLab Pro. 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 Pro, you can handle files in various ways. For example, save file settings that you regularly use as templates, rename files using naming schemes, or create a favorite files lists.
This chapter describes the methods for controlling playback and transport functions.
Audio file editing refers to opening, editing, and saving audio files.
WaveLab Pro provides you with a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing your audio and for detecting any errors.
You can search for unwanted clicks and digital artifacts in an audio file. The detection and correction methods allow you to detect, mark and name, jump to, play back, and remove individual audio 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 the envelope curves and fades in clips, make zoom settings, analyze the audio, and render the audio montage.
The audio signal passes through the various sections of WaveLab Pro 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 channel configuration (mono, stereo, surround, Ambisonics, multi mono, DVD-Audio), the audio channel layout, and the sample rate of the audio montage.
You can import different files into your audio montage, for example, audio files, audio montages, video files, and DDP images.
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 Pro detects broken references and allows you to specify new file locations or replace the missing audio file with another audio file.
Tracks form the structure that is used to organize clips. You can add mono tracks, stereo tracks, a reference track, a video track, and a picture track.
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, volume and pan curves, 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.
When inserting audio files with a different sample rate than the sample rates of the audio montage, WaveLab Pro can create and use resampled versions of the files.
You can open multichannel audio files in audio montages. Each track of the multichannel audio file is organized in channel clusters. A channel cluster is a logical group of channels. It is always one channel or a channel pair.
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 insert external audio montages in an audio montage or gather several clips of an audio montage to an internal sub-montage. This makes it easy to build large audio montages while hiding edit complexities inside other audio montages.
The Files window helps you to manage files that are used in the current audio montage.
For clips in the audio montage, you can create envelopes for volume and fades, for panning, and for effects that are routed to a clip.
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.
You can adjust the length of a clip by using time stretching.
You can adjust the pitch of a clip by using pitch shifting.
You can add VST effect plug-ins to individual clips, tracks, track groups, or the output of an audio montage. Clip effects affect individual clips only, track effects affect all clips on a track, track group effects affect all tracks of the track group, and the montage output affects the whole audio montage.
The reference track allows you to compare your mix to a reference audio file or input signal without latency.
A track in the audio montage is defined by CD track start and end markers or CD track splice markers.
In this window, you can create an audio CD or DVD-Audio.
The Render function allows you to mix down the whole audio montage or sections of it to a single audio file or to several files in case of a multichannel audio montage. It also allows you to render to an audio CD, to a CD image and cue sheet, or to a new audio montage.
You can save a number of snapshots of your audio montage, to capture the current scroll position, zoom factor, cursor position, audio selection, and clip selection status.
This tool is a key mastering component to ensure that all songs get the same loudness and to prevent clipping. It allows you to adjust the loudness of each clip in the audio montage so that they all have the same loudness. It is also possible to adjust the loudness of the audio montage mixdown as well as the loudness at the Master Section output.
This window displays an overview of the entire active audio montage and allows you to quickly navigate in it.
This window allows you to enter notes about the current audio montage session.
The audio montage backup mechanism allows you to maintain previous versions of saved audio montages and to automatically save audio montages.
You can import audio CD files. The imported audio CD opens as an audio montage.
You can export and import audio montages as XML.
The AES-31 standard is an open file interchange format for overcoming format incompatibility issues between different audio hardware and software. It can be used for transferring projects from one workstation to another, retaining time positions of events, fades, etc.
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, add effects, resample, and apply dithering.
Markers allow you to save and name specific positions in a file. Markers are useful for editing and playback.
WaveLab Pro 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.
In WaveLab Pro, you can author a DVD-Audio from a collection of audio montages and write it to DVD-Audio.
To start the CD/DVD writing process, you must have completed all CD/DVD writing preparations. Refer to the description about DVD-Audio, and CD window for a description of the preparations before following the instructions here.
Spectral editing allows you to edit and process individual frequency ranges instead of the full frequency spectrum.
The auto split function allows you to automatically split audio files in the Audio Editor or clips in the Audio Montage window according to specific rules.
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.
In WaveLab Pro, you can generate synthesized sounds and DTMF or MF tones.
You can read audio tracks from regular CDs and save them as a digital copy in any audio format on your hard disk.
WaveLab Pro allows you to add video files to your audio montage. You can play back video files in various formats from within WaveLab Pro, extract the audio from a video file, and edit your audio alongside the video.
You can use WaveLab Pro as an external editor for Cubase Pro, Cubase Artist, and Nuendo, and vice versa.
Batch processing in WaveLab Pro allows you to process any number of audio files or audio montage files with Master Section plug-ins and presets, offline effects, and other plug-ins that are unique to batch processing.
You can convert multiple audio files simultaneously to another format. If no processing is needed, this can be done using the Batch Conversion dialog.
With the batch renaming functions, you can batch rename multiple files, markers, and clips. You can convert, remove, format, import, and insert text. This allows you to batch rename file names according to user specified rules.
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 Pro 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 Pro according to your needs.
