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WaveLab Pro 12.0.20

Operation Manual

Table of Contents
Configuring WaveLab Pro
You can configure WaveLab Pro according to your needs.

New Features
The following list informs you about the most important improvements in WaveLab Pro and provides links to the corresponding descriptions.
WaveLab Pro Introduction
Thank you for purchasing WaveLab Pro and embracing audio editing and the art of mastering. Welcome not only to the number one choice for mastering professionals, but also to a community of passionate users who are true masters of their craft.
Getting Started
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.
Setting Up Your System
Before you can start working, you need to set up your system.
WaveLab Pro Concepts
We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the general concepts of WaveLab Pro, to ensure the highest possible efficiency when using the application.
Workspace Window
The Workspace window provides a range of editing and playback environments whose functions are tailored to the specific purposes of particular file types.
File Handling
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.
Projects
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.
Playback and Transport
WaveLab offers you a wide range of options for playback and transport.
Audio File Editing
Audio file editing encompasses opening, modifying, and saving audio files.
Audio Analysis
WaveLab Pro includes a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing your audio and for detecting errors.
Error Correction
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 Processing
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.
Audio Montage
An audio montage is a multichannel and multitrack non-destructive editing environment.
Recording
You can record audio in the Audio Editor and in the Audio Montage window.
Master Section
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
Markers allow you to save and name specific positions in a file. Markers are useful for editing and playback.
Metering
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.
Writing Operations
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
Spectral editing allows you to edit and process individual frequency ranges instead of the full frequency spectrum.
Auto Split
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.
Loops
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.
Generating Signals
In WaveLab Pro, you can generate synthesized sounds and DTMF or MF tones.
Audio CD Import
You can read titles from regular CDs and save them as a digital copy in any audio format on your hard disk.
Video
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.
WaveLab and External Applications
There are several ways of combining WaveLab Pro with external applications, such as DAWs.
WaveLab Exchange
You can use WaveLab Pro as an external editor for Cubase Pro, Cubase Artist, and Nuendo, and vice versa.
Cross-Application Copying Operations
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 as an ARA Extension
WaveLab Pro can be integrated into various external audio applications that support the ARA interface and VST 3.
Batch Processing
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.
Batch Conversion
You can convert multiple audio files simultaneously to another format. If no processing is needed, this can be done using the Batch Conversion dialog.
Batch Renaming
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.
Podcast Creation
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
Customizing means making adjustments to ensure that WaveLab Pro behaves and looks the way that you want it to.
Configuring WaveLab Pro
You can configure WaveLab Pro according to your needs.
- Global Preferences
  Global Preferences are preferences that apply throughout WaveLab Pro. Before you start working with WaveLab Pro, it is recommended to edit these preferences according to your needs.
- Audio Files Preferences
  This dialog allows you to define settings for editing in the Audio Editor. However, these settings also affect other parts of WaveLab Pro. You can choose defaults for editing and playback, adjust the visual appearance of the waveform displays, and determine how WaveLab Pro works with audio and peak files.
- Audio Montages Preferences
  This dialog allows you to set up general parameters for all audio montages or for the active audio montage only.
- Synchronizing WaveLab Pro Settings on Several Computers
  You can make some reference settings available to other WaveLab Pro installations. These settings can then be used by other WaveLab Pro workstations to keep the settings synchronized on several computers.
- Multi-User Settings
  If you use multiple WaveLab Pro stations in your studio or in your school, for administration, etc., you can set up one WaveLab Pro station to be the master station. The shared preferences and presets of this station can then be used by other slave stations.
- External Editors
  You can integrate external editors, for example, SpectraLayers, Melodyne 4, or Izotope RX, into your WaveLab Pro workflow. This allows you to modify audio files and clips in one or more external editors directly from within your current WaveLab Pro session.
- Alternative External File Browser
  By default, WaveLab Pro uses the file browser of your operating system when you browse for audio files, for example. However, you can specify an alternative external file browser in the Preferences.
- External Tools
  You can configure external tools to work with WaveLab Pro. You can pass command line arguments on to the external tools so that they can process the current file/folder on which you are working, or the settings folder of WaveLab Pro.

Configuring WaveLab Pro

You can configure WaveLab Pro according to your needs.

Note

The parameters that you set in the preferences are applied when you switch to another WaveLab Pro window.

Customizing the Touch Bar (macOS only) Global Preferences

WaveLab Pro 12.0.20

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