Audio file editing refers to opening, editing, and saving audio files.
Before you start working, you need to make some settings.
This chapter describes general concepts that you will use when working with WaveLab Yellowtec Edition. Getting accustomed with these procedures allows you to work more effectively with the program.
The Workspace window provides an editing and playback environment for each particular file type. Each environment contains functions that are tailored to the specific purpose of each file type.
The wave window displays audio files graphically. Here, you view, play back, and edit individual audio files.
The tabs in the Audio Editor give you access to the tools and options you need to edit audio files.
WaveLab Yellowtec Edition is very flexible in its handling of stereo. All editing operations can be performed on either one channel or on both.
WaveLab Yellowtec Edition can open and save audio files in a number of file formats.
You can create an empty audio file, to assemble material from other audio files, for example.
You can change the file format, sampling frequency, bit resolution, and stereo/mono status when saving.
Audio can be saved in different formats. The process of converting audio to another format is called encoding. When saving audio files, you can specify various encoding options for some file formats.
You can export audio files to an audio montage, including all markers that you have set in the audio file.
You can turn selections into new files via drag and drop or by using the Render tab in the Audio Editor.
You can convert audio files from mono to stereo and from stereo to mono. Converting a mono file into a stereo file produces an audio file that contains the same material in both channels, for example for further processing into real stereo. Converting a stereo file into a mono file mixes the stereo channels to a mono channel.
You can swap the two channels in an audio file, that is, you can move the audio in the left channel to the right channel, and the audio in the right channel to the left channel.
On the Paste pop-up menu in the Audio Editor, you find additional paste options.
You can rearrange the order of the audio in a file by dragging, and cutting and pasting.
You can copy sections of audio within the same file or between audio files.
You can change the sample rate and bit resolution of audio files.
Meta-data consists of attributes that describe the audio contents, for example, the title of the track, the author, or the date the track was recorded. Depending on the file format of the selected audio file, this data varies.
This dialog allows you to insert silence or background noise in an audio file.
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.
The audio montage is a multitrack non-destructive editing environment that allows you to arrange, edit, play back, and record audio clips.
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.
Markers allow you to save and name specific positions in a file. Markers are useful for editing and playback.
WaveLab Yellowtec Edition 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.
Customizing means making settings so that the program behaves and looks the way that you want it to.
You can configure WaveLab Yellowtec Edition according to your needs.
