Audio file editing encompasses opening, modifying, and saving audio files.
The following list informs you about the most important improvements in WaveLab Elements and provides links to the corresponding descriptions.
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 Elements, 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.
WaveLab Elements offers you many options to handle your files. For example, you can rename files from within WaveLab Elements or save files in various ways.
WaveLab offers you a wide range of options for playback and transport.
The Audio Editor window displays audio files graphically. It allows you to view, play back, and edit individual audio files.
You can overlay the Waveform or the Rainbow view of the Audio Editor with an RMS Loudness view and adjust the transparency of the overlay.
The channel control area to the left of the waveform in the Audio Editor allows you to select channels, and to mute and solo single channels of multichannel audio files.
Some positions, such as markers or selection edges, can be defined as magnetic. Dragged elements can snap to these positions. This makes it easier to position items accurately.
A zero crossing is a point where the waveform crosses the zero level axis. To perform editing operations such as cutting, pasting, or dragging, we recommend inserting the audio material at a zero crossing.
The tabs in the Audio Editor give you access to the tools and options you need to edit audio files.
Before you start editing files in the Audio Editor, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with some basic file handling procedures, as editing in the Audio Editor is not non-destructive, unlike editing clips in the Audio Montage window, which leaves the source files untouched.
You can render regions of an audio files or whole audio files to a single audio file.
You can change the sample rate and the bit depth of audio files.
Metadata consists of attributes that describe the audio contents; for example, the titles of an album, the author, or the recording date of a title. The availability of the data varies, depending on the file format of the selected audio file.
The Silence Generator dialog allows you to add silence to an audio file.
You can replace a part of an audio file with a beep sound, to cover up a swear word, for example.
The Pen tool allows you to redraw the waveform in the Waveform view, which enables you to quickly repair waveform errors.
WaveLab Elements includes a comprehensive set of tools for analyzing your audio and for detecting errors.
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 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 Elements 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.
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.
You can read titles from regular CDs and save them as a digital copy in any audio format on your hard disk.
WaveLab Elements allows you to add video files to your audio montage. You can play back video files in various formats from within WaveLab Elements, extract the audio from a video file, and edit your audio alongside the video.
There are several ways of combining WaveLab Elements with external applications, such as DAWs.
You can use WaveLab Elements 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.
You can convert multiple audio files simultaneously to another format. If no processing is needed, this can be done using the Batch Conversion dialog.
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 Elements 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 Elements behaves and looks the way that you want it to.
You can configure WaveLab Elements according to your needs.
