User Manual

Chapter 6
Audio Montages
The WaveLab Audio Montage Workspace is a non-destructive editing environment that al-
lows you to arrange, edit, play back audio Clips. Features include both track and Clip-based
effects, volume and pan automation, and wide-ranging fade and cross fade functions. The
Audio Montage is a great tool for creating music CDs, mastering, multimedia work, radio spot
production, etc. You can create intricate multi-track compositions and author professional
audio CDs. Support for Multichannel and DVD-Audio disks allows you to create surround
sound mixes too.
Basic terminology
The Audio Montage window is where you assemble audio "Clips" into a montage. Once
imported, you can arrange, edit and play back Clips on an unlimited number of both stereo
or mono tracks. These provide a way for the user to structure the work graphically, but they
should not be viewed as "virtual tape tracks".
On an audio track, you can place any number of Clips. These are "containers" for the audio,
and include a number of settings and functions such as volume and pan curves, fades, etc.
A Clip contains a reference to a source Audio File on your hard disk, as well as start and end
positions in the file (allowing Clips to play back smaller sections of their source Audio Files).
Any number of Clips can reference the same source file.
Creating a Montage
To create a blank new montage file choose File > New... to open the Audio Montage
properties dialog. From this dialog you can define the mode, number of channels and sample
rate to use for your new montage. The default setup is a stereo 44.1kHz montage. If you
wish to change the number of channels at a later stage you can by opening this dialog again
via Edit > Audio Montage properties.... See "Multi-channel surround setup" below for
more information on setting up for multiple channels.
There are also ways to generate a new montage automatically. If you are working in the Audio
File Workspace you can choose Edit > Create Montage from Audio File... to create a
new Audio Montage with a selection or an entire Audio File. You can also create a montage
by importing different file formats directly into the Audio Montage Workspace. Several of
these are found in the File > Import > menu. You can create a montage file:
by importing an audio DDP file as an Audio Montage.