WaveLab offers you a wide range of options for playback and transport.
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.
The Transport Bar allows you to control the playback of an audio file or an audio montage, to navigate to various positions in your audio, and to open the Recording dialog.
You can use the time ruler to jump to a position and start playback from there.
During playback, you can alternate between playing back the left/right, mid/side, channel clusters of multichannel audio files, or both audio channels.
You can play back multichannel files according to your audio device setup.
Playback scrubbing helps you to find a specific position in an audio file by restarting playback repeatedly while you click and drag on the time ruler during playback or using the Play tool.
The Timecode window can display the recorded time, the time offset in relation to various positions, and dynamic colors, based on the context.
The Jog and Shuttle functions allow you to play back audio forwards or backwards, at any speed, which can help you to find exact spots in the audio file and audio montage.
You can determine how to scroll the view in Play mode.
Controlling playback in the Audio Montage window basically works just like in the Audio Editor, aside from a few features that are exclusively available for audio montages.
You can configure up to eight speaker setups and switch between them without latency. In addition to this, you can link individual speaker configurations to specific playback plug-in chains.
Audio file editing encompasses opening, modifying, and saving audio files.
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.
