The documentation applies to the operating systems Windows and Mac OS.

There are several ways of accessing the help system. The documentation is available online and most of it can be downloaded in PDF format from steinberg.help.

In our documentation, we use typographical and markup elements to structure information.

Many of the default key commands, also known as keyboard shortcuts, use modifier keys, some of which are different depending on the operating system.

On the Help menu in WaveLab Yellowtec Edition, you find items linking to additional information.

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.

When you activate playback or recording in WaveLab Yellowtec Edition, other applications cannot access the audio card. Likewise, if another application uses the audio card, WaveLab Yellowtec Edition is unable to play back. The Windows MME driver is an exception from this.

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 Yellowtec Edition.

To be able to play back and record audio in WaveLab Yellowtec Edition, you must specify how the internal input and output channels in WaveLab Yellowtec Edition are connected to your sound card and which device you intend to use for audio playback and recording.

The common editing operations apply to any Steinberg product.

In WaveLab Yellowtec Edition, you can control many functions via shortcuts to speed up your workflow.

WaveLab Yellowtec Edition follows the basic guidelines for the Windows/Mac OS interface, which means that Windows/Mac OS standard procedures apply.

Almost all types of editing and processing that you perform in WaveLab Yellowtec Edition operate on the audio selection. There are numerous ways to make an audio selection.

At various places in WaveLab Yellowtec Edition, slider controls are available to change parameters. There are a number of ways to change the value of a slider.

The File Browser window allows you to browse files from within WaveLab Yellowtec Edition. The Auto Play Mode is useful for speeding up the process of auditioning sound files.

A peak file (extension .gpk) is automatically created by WaveLab Yellowtec Edition each time an audio file is modified or opened in WaveLab Yellowtec Edition for the first time. The peak file contains information about the waveform and determines how it is drawn in the wave window or the montage window.

The Audio Editor provides tools and functions for sample-accurate audio editing.

In the Audio Montage, you assemble audio clips into a montage. You can arrange, edit, and play back clips on both stereo or mono tracks.

The File tab is the control center of WaveLab Yellowtec Edition. Here, you can save, open, render, import, and export files. It also gives you detailed information about your files and allows you to set up the WaveLab Yellowtec Edition preferences.

The Info tab provides information about the active file and allows you to edit the audio properties of audio files and audio montages.

Throughout WaveLab Yellowtec Edition there are various tool windows available that allow you to view, analyze, and edit the active file.

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.

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.

Tool windows and meter windows can be used as docked windows, as floating windows, or as a slide-out window. You can freely drag around the windows and dock them at various locations.

The command bar of file windows allows you to create, open, and save files, and undo/redo changes. You can also use the text field to quickly find and access open files, and to trigger keywords.

The status bar at the bottom of the screen of the Audio Editor and the Audio Montage window shows information about the active window using the units specified in the rulers.

Throughout WaveLab Yellowtec Edition, various context menus are available. These menus group the commands and/or options that are specific to the active window.

In the Audio Editor, you can display a time and a level ruler in the wave window. In the Audio Montage window, you can display a time ruler in the montage window.

At various places in the program, numerical values can be edited by using a combination of text fields and knobs.

WaveLab Yellowtec Edition makes much use of drag-and-drop techniques to perform various operations, some of which can only be performed this way. These are referred to as drag operations in this documentation.

You can undo and redo as many steps as you like. The only limitation is the available hard disk space.

You can create presets to save commonly used settings. WaveLab Yellowtec Edition provides a selection of factory presets that can be used by most dialogs.

All files that you have recently used in WaveLab Yellowtec Edition are saved in a list. This helps you to gain fast access to recent projects. You can open recently used files via the File menu.

You can add files that you are using regularly to the favorite files list.

You can rename a file and update all references automatically. For example, if you rename an audio file named India to Sitar, all open files that reference the file India are updated to reference the file as Sitar.

You can delete the active file from within WaveLab Yellowtec Edition.

You can copy information about the name and location of the selected audio file, including any selection information and cursor position. This information can be pasted into an external text application.

If you are editing inside a floating window or a tool window and you want to switch the focus back to a wave/montage window, you can use the Set Focus on Current File option.

With this command bar you can control playback of an audio file or audio montage, navigate between various positions in an audio file or audio montage, and open the Recording dialog.

You can use the ruler to jump to a position and start playback from there.

This tool allows you to play back from any position on one or both stereo channels.

Playback scrubbing helps you find a specific position in an audio file, by restarting playback repeatedly when you click and drag on the time ruler during playback or when using the Play tool.

Playback in the Audio Montage window works the same way as in the Audio Editor. However, there are some things to note.

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.

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.

In this dialog, you can change the peak level of an audio file.

You can use the Loudness Normalizer to achieve a specific loudness.

This dialog allows you to ensure that both channels of a stereo file have the same level or loudness, and helps you to get the best possible stereo balance.

A fade in is a gradual increase in level and a fade out is a gradual decrease in level.

A crossfade is a gradual fade between two sounds, where one is faded in and the other faded out. You can automatically create a crossfade when pasting an audio section into another.

The montage window is where you assemble your audio montage. This is where you view, play back, and edit audio montages.

The tabs in the Audio Montage window give you access to the tools and options you need for editing audio montages. For example, you can edit the envelope curves and fades in clips, make zoom settings, analyze the audio, and render the audio montage.

The audio signal passes through the various sections of WaveLab Yellowtec Edition in a certain way.

You can create duplicates of audio montages.

You can export audio files to an audio montage, including all markers that you have set in the audio file.

This dialog opens when you open an audio montage, and some audio files that the audio montage refers to cannot be found. You can then search for the files or select a replacement.

You assemble your audio montage by adding tracks and clips.

You can freely arrange clips in the montage window.

All clips are displayed in the Clips window. In this window, you can edit and rearrange clips and drag them into the audio montage.

The track activity indicator shows the volume level for audio tracks. It is located on the right side of the track control area in the Audio Montage window.

For clips in the audio montage, you can create envelopes for volume and fades.

A fade in is a gradual increase in level and a fade out is a gradual decrease in level. A crossfade is a gradual fade between two sounds, where one is faded in and the other faded out.

The Render function allows you to mix down the whole audio montage to a single audio file.

Before you start recording, set up the Recording dialog.

When you are recording, you can click the marker buttons to add markers to the recorded file.

In this dialog, you can make recording settings and start recording an audio file.

In this window, you can apply effect plug-ins, adjust the master level, and render the audio file or audio montage.

By rendering the effects using the Render function in the Master Section, they become a permanent part of a file. So instead of performing all processing in real-time during playback, you can save the audio output to a file on disk.

When rendering, you can monitor the process, and pause or cancel tasks.

A dropout most likely occurs when your computer does not have the processing power to handle all used effect processors.

In this window, you can create, edit, and use markers while working on an audio file or audio montage.

Markers can be created during playback or in stop mode.

Markers can be deleted in the wave window or the montage window, and in the Markers window.

You can adjust marker positions in the wave window and the montage window.

You can change the names of markers.

There are several ways to select markers.

You can select the audio between two adjacent markers or between any two markers. This allows you to select a section that has been marked.

In the Audio Montage window, you can bind markers to clips. By doing this, the marker remains in the same position relative to the clip start/end, even if the clip is moved or resized in the audio montage.

You can set up most meters in the corresponding settings dialogs. For example, you can adjust the behavior, scale, and color of the meters.

You can reset the display of some meters, for example, the Level Meter.

The Level Meter displays the peak and average loudness/decibel levels of your audio file, and the balance between the left and right channels in a stereo file.

The Loudness Meter is an audio meter for monitoring loudness, according to the EBU R-128 standard.

The Phasescope indicates the phase and amplitude relationship between two stereo channels.

Global preferences are preferences that apply throughout WaveLab Yellowtec Edition. Before you start working with WaveLab Yellowtec Edition, it is recommended to edit these preferences according to your needs.

This dialog allows you to define settings for editing in the Audio Editor. However, these settings also effect other parts of WaveLab Yellowtec Edition. You can choose defaults for editing and playback, adjust the visual appearance of the waveform displays, and determine how WaveLab Yellowtec Edition works with audio and peak files.

This plug-in reduces the dynamic range of the audio, making softer sounds louder or louder sounds softer, or both.

This effect reduces excessive sibilance, primarily for vocal recordings. It is a special type of compressor that is tuned to be sensitive to the frequencies produced by the s-sound.

Expander reduces the output level in relation to the input level for signals below the set threshold. This is useful if you want to enhance the dynamic range or reduce the noise in quiet passages.

Gating, or noise gating, silences audio signals below a set threshold. As soon as the signal level exceeds the threshold, the gate opens to let the signal through.

This plug-in is designed to ensure that the output level never exceeds a set output level, to avoid clipping in following devices.

Brickwall Limiter ensures that the output level never exceeds a set limit.

These graphic equalizers are identical, except for the number of available frequency bands (10 and 30).

Studio EQ is a high-quality 4-band parametric stereo equalizer with two fully parametric mid-range bands. The low and high bands can act as either shelving filters (three types), or as peak filter (band-pass), or as cut filter (low-pass/high-pass).

This effect allows quick and easy filtering of unwanted frequencies, creating room for the important sounds in your mix.

RoomWorks is a highly adjustable reverb plug-in for creating realistic room ambience and reverb effects in stereo and surround formats. The CPU usage is adjustable to fit the needs of any system. From short room reflections to cavern-sized reverb, this plug-in delivers high quality reverberation.