User Manual

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The Audio Montage
Using the Select menu
The Edit view : Select menu holds several items for select-
ing clips:
About selected and focused clips
The program makes a distinction between selected and
focused clips:
• A selected clip is a clip you have selected using the any
of the procedures described above.
Several clips can be selected at the same time.
• The focused clip is the clip you selected (or clicked, or
edited) last.
Only one clip can be focused at a time. By default, the focused clip is
distinguished by a highlighted name label:
Clicking on the selected clip to the right makes it the focused clip.
Selection ranges
A selection range is a selected area on a track. The selec-
tion range may be entirely or partially within a clip, or in an
empty section of the track. There are several uses for se-
lection ranges:
• You can edit clips using selection ranges. This involves cutting
or erasing the selection, or trimming the clip to contain only
the selection (see “Resizing by trimming” on page 157).
• You can create a new clip by dragging the selection range to
another track.
• You can open a Wave window with the range selected in the
source audio file, by dragging the selection range to the
WaveLab Studio desktop.
• You can play back the selection range only, either the whole
Montage or just the clip with the selection range (see “Playing
back individual clips and selections” on page 148).
• You can have the playback loop within the selection, by acti-
vating the loop and selecting the “Loop Selection” mode on
the Transport bar.
Option Description
Select all clips Selects all clips in the Montage.
Select clips of
selected track
Selects all clips on the selected track (the
track with the highlighted Track Control
area).
Select all clips included in the
selection (on all tracks)
Selects all clips fully encompassed by a
selection range, on all tracks.
Select all clips at left of cursor
(selected track)
Selects all clips with the endpoint to the
left of the Montage cursor, on the selected
track.
Select all clips at left of cursor
(all tracks)
Selects all clips with the endpoint to the
left of the Montage cursor, on all tracks.
Select all clips at right of
cursor (selected track)
Selects all clips that start to the right of the
Montage cursor, on the selected track.
Select all clips at right of
cursor (all tracks)
Selects all clips that start to the right of the
Montage cursor, on all tracks.
Inverse Selection Deselects all currently selected clips and
selects all other clips in the Montage.
Deselect clips Deselects the currently selected clips.
Lock/Unlock all selected clips Locks all selected clips (or unlocks them, if
they are locked). See “Unlocking a locked
clip” on page 159.
Mute/Unmute all selected clips Mutes all selected clips (or unmutes them,
if they are muted). See “Muting individual
clips” on page 147.
Option Description