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WaveLab LE 11.2.0

Operation Manual

Table of Contents
Setting Up Your System
Before you start working, you need to make some settings.

WaveLab LE Introduction
Setting Up Your System
Before you start working, you need to make some settings.
- Connecting the Equipment
  Your system setup depends on many different factors, for example, the kind of project that you want to create, the external equipment that you want to use, or the computer hardware available to you.
- Audio Cards and Background Playback
  When you activate playback or recording in WaveLab LE, other applications cannot access the audio card. Likewise, if another application uses the audio card, WaveLab LE is unable to play back.
- Latency
  Latency is the delay between when audio is sent from the program and when you actually hear it. While a very low latency can be crucial in a real-time DAW application such as Steinberg Nuendo or Cubase, this is not strictly the case with WaveLab LE.
- ASIO-Guard
  The ASIO-Guard allows you to pre-process all channels as well as VST plug-ins. This causes fewer dropouts and allows you to process more tracks or plug-ins.
- Defining Audio Connections
  To be able to play back and record audio in WaveLab LE, you must specify how the internal input and output channels in WaveLab LE are connected to your sound card and which device you intend to use for audio playback and recording.
- Remote Devices
  You can use Steinberg remote devices to remote-control WaveLab LE.
WaveLab LE Concepts
This chapter describes general concepts that you will use when working with WaveLab LE. Getting accustomed with these procedures allows you to work more effectively with the program.
Workspace Window
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.
File Handling
In WaveLab LE, you can handle files in various ways. For example, rename files from within WaveLab LE or save files in various ways.
Playback
This chapter describes the methods for controlling playback and transport functions.
Audio File Editing
Audio file editing refers to opening, editing, and saving audio files.
Audio Analysis
WaveLab LE provides you with a 3D Frequency Analysis for analyzing your audio.
Offline Processing
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.
Audio Montage
The audio montage is a multitrack non-destructive editing environment that allows you to arrange, edit, play back, and record audio clips.
Recording
You can record audio in the Audio Editor and in the Audio Montage window.
Master Section
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 and add effects.
Markers
Markers allow you to save and name specific positions in a file. Markers are useful for editing and playback.
Loops
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.
Audio CD Import
You can read audio tracks from regular CDs and save them as a digital copy in any audio format on your hard disk.
RSS Feed
Podcasting is a method of distributing multimedia files over the Internet, for example, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. Podcasts are distributed via the RSS standard (Rich Site Summary).
Customizing
Customizing means making settings so that the program behaves and looks the way that you want it to.
Configuring WaveLab LE
You can configure WaveLab LE according to your needs.

Setting Up Your System

Before you start working, you need to make some settings.

Important

Make sure that all equipment is turned off before making any connections.

Related Links

Connecting the Equipment
Defining Audio Connections

Key Commands Connecting the Equipment

WaveLab LE 11.2.0

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