The audio montage is a multitrack non-destructive editing environment that allows you to arrange, edit, play back, and record audio clips.
You can freely arrange clips in the montage window.
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.
Audio file editing refers to opening, editing, and saving audio files.
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 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.
An active clip is the clip that you selected, clicked, or edited last. Only one clip can be active at a time. By default, the active clip is distinguished by a highlighted name label. Some functions can only be processed on a active clip. Right-clicking a clip opens the Active Clip menu.
The info line at the bottom of the Audio Montage window shows what happens when you click the mouse button with or without modifier keys, depending on the cursor position.
Some positions, such as markers or a clips start and end, are magnetic. Dragged elements can snap to these positions. This makes it easier to position items accurately.
You can edit multiple selected clips at once.
Many editing functions for clips can be accessed via the clip context menus. Depending on where you right-click the clip, different context menus are available.
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.
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.
