Envelopes for Clips in Wavelab Pro

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Envelopes for Clips in Wavelab Pro

Level envelopes

Selecting envelopes

Hiding envelope curves

Clip envelope editing

Adding envelope curve points

Editing envelope curves

Envelopes for Clips

For clips in the audio montage, you can create envelopes for volume and fades, for panning, and for effects that are routed to a clip.

You can create an independent level envelope curve to automate the level, to create fades and crossfades, and to mute clip sections.

You can also draw pan envelopes to automate pan settings for clips. For mono clips, pan governs the left/right position in the stereo field. For stereo clips, pan sets the left/right balance.

You can edit the envelope settings on the Envelope tab, or by right-clicking an envelope curve. The settings menu contains different options depending on whether you click the fade in part, the fade out part, or the sustain part.

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Level Envelopes

By default, all clips display a level envelope curve. The envelope consists of three parts: the fade in part, the sustain part, and the fade out part.

The points on the left and right side of the curve are the fade in and fade out junction points that separate the fade parts from the sustain part. The gray points at the start of a fade-in and at the end of a fade-out allow you to see small fades even when you have fully zoomed out.

The envelope curve indicates if points, fade ins, or fade outs have been defined. In addition to the curve, changes in the level envelope are also reflected in the waveform.

You can activate/deactivate the Map Waveform to Level option in the Peaks section of the View tab.

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Selecting Envelopes

You can select volume/fade envelopes and pan envelopes.

Procedure

1. In the montage window, select a clip.
2. Select the Envelope tab.
3. In the Selector section, open the Envelope Type pop-up menu, and select if you want to edit the Volume/Fades envelope or the Pan envelope.

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Hiding Envelope Curves

All clips display envelopes by default. You can hide these envelopes. However, hidden envelopes are still active.

Procedure

1. In the montage window, select a clip.
2. Select the Envelope tab.
3. In the Selector section, open the Envelope Type pop-up menu, and select Hide All.

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Clip Envelope Editing

Curve points allow you to create volume curves, pan curves, and fade curves for a clip. You can edit the envelope curve by adding and moving curve points.

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Adding Envelope Curve Points

You can add one or multiple envelope curve points.

Choices

• To add a curve point, double-click the envelope curve.
  If you keep the mouse button pressed after double-clicking the envelope curve, you can move the curve point to another position.
• To add multiple curve points within a selection range, do one of the following:
• To add three curve points, make a selection range, and double-click the envelope curve within the selection range.
  This creates a curve point at the start and the end of the selection, and a curve point at the position that you have clicked. If the selection range already contains a curve point and you double-click the envelope curve, two curve points are created.
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• To add four curve points with two curve points at the beginning of the selection and two curve points at the end of the selection, make a selection range, and click and drag the envelope curve up or down.
  This only works if the selection range does not contain any curve points. The distance between the first and the second, and between the third and the last curve point is determined by the Default Fade/Crossfade setting in the Audio tab of the Global Preferences.
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• To add four curve points that have an equal distance to each other, make a selection range, press Ctrl/Cmd, and click and drag the envelope curve up or down.
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• This only works if the selection range does not contain any curve points.
• To add four curve points where the two curve points in the middle have a greater distance to each other that to the first and last curve points, make a selection range, press Ctrl/Cmd-Alt, and click and drag the envelope curve up or down.
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• This only works if the selection range does not contain any curve points.

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Editing Envelope Curves

Many of the editing operations that are commonly used in the context of your computer operating system can be applied when editing envelope curves. On top of these, a number of specific procedures apply.

Choices

• To delete a curve point, double-click the curve point. The curve point between the sustain and fade parts of the envelope cannot be deleted.
• To select multiple curve points, hold down Ctrl/Cmd and click the curve points that you want to select.
• To select a range of points, Alt-click and drag to create a selection rectangle.
• To delete multiple curve points, select the curve points that you want to delete, right-click one of the points, and select Delete Selected Points.
• To move all selected points, click one of the selected points and drag.
• To raise or lower the value of two consecutive curve points, Ctrl/Cmd-click the segment between the points and drag up or down.
• To change the time position of two consecutive curve points, Shift-click the segment between the points and drag left or right.
• To raise or lower the entire envelope curve, make sure that no curve point is selected, click the envelope curve, and drag up or down. Do not drag a segment that is limited by selected points.
• To adjust the envelopes in all selected clips, hold down Alt, and drag any envelope curve up or down. This is a quick way to adjust the level or pan of multiple clips at the same time and also to adjust both sides of a stereo envelope simultaneously.
• To move a fade in/fade out point vertically, Ctrl/Cmd-click and drag the fade point.
• To change the level or the fade in/out time of multiple envelopes at the same time, select the clips that you want to edit, press Alt, and edit the envelope with the mouse.

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