User Manual

36 WaveLab Concepts

Using markers for editing and playback

Once you have deﬁned one or more markers in an audio montage or Audio File you can use

them to:

Control playback - you can access various commands to start at, stop at, loop be-

tween and skip markers during playback via the Transport menu. These can also be

accessed from the Transport toolbar.

Deﬁne a selection - you can use markers to help you make selections in a waveform.

These can be accessed by various selection commands in the Edit > Select menu.You

can also access it from the Audio Range dialog.

About importing and saving loop markers

There is an important point to consider when importing ﬁles with loops into WaveLab. Both

Wave and AIFF ﬁle formats can store limited information about markers (e.g. loop points)

in the Audio File, but WaveLab can store much more information (such as extended marker

types and comments) in external ".mrk" ﬁles that are independent of ﬁle formats. Because

loop markers may be stored in two ways, there is a potential risk for conﬂict:

When you import a ﬁle that has never been used in WaveLab before, and which contains

loops, the loops are "imported" and displayed as loop markers.

When you then save the ﬁle in AIFF or Wave format, the loop points are stored, both

as part of the actual ﬁle (so that other applications can read them) and in the ".mrk" ﬁle

(for WaveLab).

When you open a ﬁle that has been used in WaveLab before, loop tags that were orig-

inally in the ﬁle, (before you used it in WaveLab) are ignored. Only the loop information

in the ".mrk" ﬁle is used.

Using markers in the Audio Montage Workspace

There are some additional marker functions that are speciﬁc to the Audio Montage

Workspace which allow you to bind selected markers to individual Clips. These functions

are useful as they allow you to freely move Clips about and perform editing functions without

fear of loosing the exact position of a marker. These additional marker functions are located

in the Marker Window when editing in the Audio Montage Workspace:

Bind selected marker to start of focused clip

Bind selected marker to end of focused clip

Detach selected marker from its associated clip

Bind selected marker to audio samples of focused clip -