Audio file editing encompasses opening, modifying, and saving audio files.
The following list informs you about the most important improvements in WaveLab Pro and provides links to the corresponding descriptions.
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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 Pro, 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.
In WaveLab Pro, you can handle files in various ways. For example, you can save file settings that you regularly use as templates, rename files using naming schemes, or create a list of favorite files.
In WaveLab Pro, projects serve as containers for references to all files that are associated with a particular WaveLab Pro session, allowing you to manage and recall entire sessions.
WaveLab offers you a wide range of options for playback and transport.
The Audio Editor window displays audio files graphically. It allows you to view, play back, and edit individual audio files.
You can overlay the Waveform or the Rainbow view of the Audio Editor with an RMS Loudness view and adjust the transparency of the overlay.
You can overlay the Spectrogram or the Wavelet view of the Audio Editor with the Waveform view and adjust the transparency of the Waveform overlay.
The channel control area to the left of the waveform in the Audio Editor allows you to select channels, and to mute and solo single channels of multichannel audio files.
Some positions, such as markers or selection edges, can be defined as magnetic. Dragged elements can snap to these positions. This makes it easier to position items accurately.
A zero crossing is a point where the waveform crosses the zero level axis. To perform editing operations such as cutting, pasting, or dragging, we recommend inserting the audio material at a zero crossing.
Both in the Audio Editor and in the Audio Montage window, when you select audio by dragging, WaveLab Pro assists you by automatically identifying suitable start and end points for audio segments, which are referred to as Audio Cue Points.
The tabs in the Audio Editor give you access to the tools and options you need to edit audio files.
Before you start editing files in the Audio Editor, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with some basic file handling procedures, as editing in the Audio Editor is not non-destructive, unlike editing clips in the Audio Montage window, which leaves the source files untouched.
You can render regions of audio files or whole audio files to a single audio file format or to multiple audio file formats at the same time.
You can change the sample rate and the bit depth of audio files.
Metadata consists of attributes that describe the audio contents; for example, the titles of an album, the author, or the recording date of a title. The availability of the data varies, depending on the file format of the selected audio file.
You can save snapshots of your audio files, to capture the current view settings.
The Silence Generator dialog allows you to add silence or ambience sounds to an audio file.
You can replace a part of an audio file with a beep sound, to cover up a swear word, for example.
The Pen tool allows you to redraw the waveform in the Waveform view, which enables you to quickly repair waveform errors.
WaveLab Pro includes a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing your audio and for detecting 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. The Correction tab in the Audio Editor gives you access to the error detection and correction tools.
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.
An audio montage is a multichannel and multitrack non-destructive editing environment.
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.
To start the CD writing process, you must have completed all CD writing preparations. Refer to the section about the Album 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 titles 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.
There are several ways of combining WaveLab Pro with external applications, such as DAWs.
You can use WaveLab Pro as an external editor for Cubase Pro, Cubase Artist, and Nuendo, and vice versa.
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.
WaveLab Pro can be integrated into various external audio applications that support the ARA interface and VST 3.
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.
Customizing means making adjustments to ensure that WaveLab Pro behaves and looks the way that you want it to.
You can configure WaveLab Pro according to your needs.
