Wavelab Demo

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I'm using the Wavelab 4.0 Demo. I've used Wavelab at a buddies house and liked it, so I got the demo to give it a whirl. I like the ease of use, except for the Audio Montage. I guess I don't fully understand what this is for or how to use it. Buddy has never used that part so he can't help me. He's one of those "too much money to know what to do with" types with a gear list to make you drool and zero talent or ability.
Due to the fact that it's a demo version, I cant save or burn CD's, but in evaluating this I'd like to get an idea of all the capabilities. Steinberg's explanation of the Montage is somewhat lacking for my idiot mind. Does anyone know of any articles or tutorials that could help me figure this thing out?
Thanks.
 
You may wan't to page the almighty dachay2tnr in Cakewalk forum :) I gotta feeling his explanation on Wavelab will do better than Steinberg's customer service... :)
 
I use the Audio Montage for burning CD's. Since you can't do that with the demo, you won't get much use from it. But you can still take it for a test drive.

What the Montage allows you to do is to lay out your finished wave files back-to-back just as if they were on a CD. Then you can edit them, so they will playback on a CD exactly like you want them to. For example, you can:

- set different pause times between each track
- do a cross fade from one track to the next (if you want one to have one track blend directly into the next).
- Create tracks without pauses between them, but still allow each track to be accessed as a track number by a CD player
- compare the volumes from one track to the next by playing just the first few seconds of each track
- create CD text (if your CD burner supports this)

You probably want to start on the Files Tab and "import" each of your wave files. Initially they will be contiguous to each other without any pause between tracks.

Once the files are all loaded, go to the CD Tab and click on the CD wizard. This will create track markers for each track and insert a default pause (2 seconds) between each track.

If that's all you want to do, you can burn the CD at this point (in the full version) by clicking on Burn CD icon. However, this is where you also might want to start investigating all the other tools available (changing pause times, metanormalizing, etc.).

After you've gotten a little bit of a feel for it, c'mon back and ask any specific questions you might have.
 
Ahhhhh. Thanks for the quick response. Here's another one for ya. I was planning on using Wavelab to "master" my stuff. By that I mean get all the songs to sound like they belong together. I like being able to have each wave opened up at the same time, but how can I work on them individually and quickly jump from one to another to compare if effects are stored in the same Master Section? Am I missing something?
 
mbuster said:
Ahhhhh. Thanks for the quick response. Here's another one for ya. I was planning on using Wavelab to "master" my stuff. By that I mean get all the songs to sound like they belong together. I like being able to have each wave opened up at the same time, but how can I work on them individually and quickly jump from one to another to compare if effects are stored in the same Master Section? Am I missing something?
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Generally you are going to have to work on the wave files one at a time, and then "render" the effects and resave the file.

You can then A/B all of them quite easily using the Audio Montage. But I don't know of any way that you can be working on multiple files simultaneously using a different pallette of effects for each one (if that is what you are asking).

However, you do know you can "bypass" the Master Section. So, for example, if you have a finished wave file that you want to reference while working on a second wave file, you can listen to the first using the "bypass" feature, while working on the second with bypass turned off.
 
That makes good sense, thanks for the help. I'll have a much better sense of direction when trying this out tonight. I'm starting to get that "about to spend money" feeling again. Oh well.
Thanks again, I'll let you get back to your dachaying or whatever now.;)
 
mbuster said:
I'm starting to get that "about to spend money" feeling again.
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Good luck. Wavelab is one of my favorite programs. I use Sonar for mult-tracking, and Wavelab for all my wave editing, mastering, and CD burning. Good complimentary package - although a tad expensive. :D
 
adding another ? to a thread: max. tracks in montage

i have 36 tracks that i want to put in a wavelab montage. 30 is the max. that the montage allows. its a very simple ?, but i haven't found the answer anywhere. how can i put more than 30 tracks on a montage?
 
capps said:
i have 36 tracks that i want to put in a wavelab montage. 30 is the max. that the montage allows. its a very simple ?, but i haven't found the answer anywhere. how can i put more than 30 tracks on a montage?
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I've never even gotten close to 30 tracks, so I won't be of much help on this one.

Wavelab has their own forum. You will probably have better luck on this question over there.

Here's the link, although it doesn't appear to be working at the moment. http://forum.cubase.net/cgi-bin/cubase.net/Ultimate.cgi
 
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