WaveLab offers you a wide range of options for playback and transport.
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.
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.
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.
Audio file editing encompasses opening, modifying, and saving audio files.
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.
