Copying Audio Ranges to Other Audio Applications

WaveLab offers a special copy-and-paste feature that allows you to transfer your audio material to other applications and to continue working on it without interrupting your workflow.

Procedure

Select an audio range in the Audio Editor or in the Audio Montage window.

In addition to a time range, the audio range can cover multiple channels or tracks/lanes.
Do one of the following to access the special copy function:
- Select the Edit tab. Right-click the Copy button, or click the down arrow to its right to access the menu.
  
  Note
  In the Audio Editor, you can find the Copy button in the Cut Copy Paste section. In the Audio Montage window, the Copy button is available in the Clipboard section
- Right-click in the selected audio range to open the context menu.

Do one of the following:

To generate a rendered copy of the selected audio range with all effects applied, choose Copy to System Clipboard (With Effects).
To generate a copy of the selected audio range without applying any effects, choose Copy to System Clipboard (No Effect).

The selected audio range is highlighted by an animated dashed rectangular outline (1).

With the Edit tab selected, a green icon (2) indicates that an audio range is available for cross-application transfer on the clipboard.

Note

In the Audio Editor, you can find the icon on the left side of the Cut Copy Paste caption bar. In the Audio Montage window, the icon appears on the Clipboard caption bar.


Figure 1. Highlighted Audio Range	Figure 2. Icon in the Audio Montage Window

Note

As soon as you perform further editing operations on the selected audio range, the outline is not visible any more. However, pasting it to another application, as described in the next step, is still possible, as long as the data is still available on the clipboard.

To make the selected audio range immediately available to you for further editing in the target application, simply drag the audio range itself or the green icon (2) to the desired location in the target application, or use Ctrl/Cmd-V to paste it there.

Note
The Ctrl/Cmd-V key command may not work for all audio applications, but it is available for Cubase, Nuendo, and for the File Explorer/macOS Finder, for example.