The Workspace window provides a range of editing and playback environments whose functions are tailored to the specific purposes of particular file types.
In the Script Editor, you can write and execute scripts.
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 Audio Editor provides tools and functions for sample-accurate audio editing, high-quality analysis, and processing.
In the Audio Montage window, you can assemble audio clips to create a montage. You can arrange, edit, and play back clips on an unlimited number of stereo or mono tracks.
The Batch Processor allows you to batch process any number of audio files or audio montage files using the plug-ins and presets of the Master Section, offline effects, and other plug-ins that are unique to batch processing.
A Control Window allows you to assemble multiple tool windows and meter windows in one place, so that you can easily access them.
WaveLab Pro offers various tool windows that allow you to view, analyze, and edit your audio.
Tool windows and meter windows can be used as docked windows, as floating windows, or as slide-out windows. You can freely drag around the windows and dock them to various locations.
Slide-out windows are hidden in the frame of the Workspace window. When you hover the mouse pointer over the window name, the window slides out. It is hidden again when you click anywhere else.
The File tab is the control center of WaveLab Pro.
The Info dialog provides information about the active file and allows you to edit the audio properties of audio files and audio montages.
The command bar at the top of the editor windows allows you to create, open, and save files, and to undo/redo changes.
The status bar at the bottom of the Audio Editor and the Audio Montage window shows information about the active window using the units specified for the rulers.
WaveLab Pro offers various context menus, which contain commands and/or options pertaining to the active window.
When you perform actions with the mouse, in some contexts, the Context Options info bar displays key commands that are available to you at a particular stage in your workflow.
A tab that is situated in the Audio Editor or the Audio Montage window is a container for a file in WaveLab Pro. There are file group tabs and file tabs. You can open several tabs, but only one can be active at a time. The Tabs context menus of the file group tabs and file tabs offer tab-related options.
You can use WaveLab Pro in full screen mode.
This window allows you to view log messages that have been issued by WaveLab Pro.
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.
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.
