Query from an new/old user

ilpadrone · Member Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 434 Location: London, UK

Hi guys (and girls)

Have been using Cubase for many years and been a member here for 5 years... And this is my first post within the Wavelab section. This is due to me using Soundforge (please, stop the boos and hisses) for many years.

Having been informed by a colleague about the 'montage' feature in Wavelab, my interest finally got the better of me... Am running the Version 7 trial at the moment.

Now, am getting used to the way things work here in comparison, and I have to say there is much more on offer - am quite surprised.... However, something's been bugging me since installing yesterday. I cannot get the 'playback to seek cursor' option. In Soundforge, there's an option that the playback will automatically jump to the cursor in the main window page and play.... I can't seem to figure this out here on Wavelab. The only way to get it to playback from a new cursor position is to press stop first. When you resume playing it THEN plays back from the cursor....

Am I missing something that is obvious?

Thanks in advance for any help offered.
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PG · Moderator Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 3396

You just need to single click in the time ruler to jump to that point, without stopping playback.

Make sure to use the 7.01 demo.
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losan · New Member Joined: 08 Dec 2010 Posts: 12

Hello PG,

tried your hint, but it stops playback then I single click in the time ruler.
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PG · Moderator Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 3396

The ruler has a upper part and a lower part, you need clicking in the lower part. Actually double clicking allows to start playback from that point, and single clicking to jump to that point, whether in the same window or another.
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ilpadrone · Member Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 434 Location: London, UK

Thanks for the very quick reply PG, much appreciated. Works indeed - my fault for not thinking straight.

Re. the upper and lower part, I only need to click once to get it to play from that point, so am quite content. Wink

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losan · New Member Joined: 08 Dec 2010 Posts: 12

Now I'm confused...

I used the lower part, but I have to double click to play from that point,
so I don't understand why ilpadrone has only to click once ?

Or may it be different between WaveLab 7 and WaveLab 7 Elements ?
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ilpadrone · Member Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 434 Location: London, UK

losan · New Member Joined: 08 Dec 2010 Posts: 12

Hi ilpadrone,

yes, you're right.
I've had activated "Stop after playback-scrubbing" in the Options menu.
(Not sure what this setting is for)
Seems it also has an effect for the normal playback - should it have ?

Thanks for the hint !
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ilpadrone · Member Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 434 Location: London, UK

losan · New Member Joined: 08 Dec 2010 Posts: 12

Well, I meant if I activate this setting "Stop after playback-scrubing",
then clicking once in the time ruler will move the cursor to the new position and stop playback of a playing file.

If I deactive this setting, then clicking once in the time ruler will move the cursor
to this new position and the playback continous - just like you described.

In both cases I'm not using the scrubing function at all (btw - figured it out now how it works) -
just the normal playback.

I'm not sure, if this setting for the scrubing function should affect the mouse click action in the time ruler in normal playback mode.
That's something for PG to answer.
Not a biggie - I'll leave it deactivated for now.

Hope I could explain it more clearly this time
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markino · Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2010 9:55 pm Post subject:

Hello,

I think PG meant one click because the playback was already on!

In this case, just one click makes the file play from the point you chose.

My best
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John Reid · Posted: Sun Dec 12, 2010 5:35 am Post subject:

This is not a "secret", it's just one of those things that WaveLab users (all versions) have done forever, to the extent that it has become so natural that people don't think about it anymore, and then when a new user asks, it's difficult to understand the reason for asking! Another example is the "drag/zoom" feature in the timeline ... something that Cubase only recently acquired, which I personally love but annoyed some people (click and hold on the timeline and drag down to zoom in, drag up to zoom out).

Explore the timeline some more ... there are some amazing things in there! Cool

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ilpadrone · Member Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 434 Location: London, UK

PG · Moderator Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 3396

>>My problem is that I cannot choose WHITE as a background

Yes you can, move the wheel to the proper position, or simple enter 255 / 255 / 255 as RGB values.
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ilpadrone · Member Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 434 Location: London, UK

ilpadrone · Member Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 434 Location: London, UK

PG, I think I should have entitled this thread as 'queries' rather than 'query'.....

Have just tried changing key commands; in particular I wanted to add a key command of CTRL+ALT+O (letter, not the digit) to function as a linear fade out.

However, when I try to implement this, the O is shown as Ó in the list (and the same with an 'I' being an 'Í' when attempting to use the same process for fade in)... If I try to use CTRL+SHFT+O it works fine, however I need the ALT instead of SHFT. Would this problem be particular to my PC for some reason or can someone else replicate it?
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PG · Moderator Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 3396

What keyboard do you use (country?). Don't mind what it displayed in the list, as far as the shortcut works.
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ilpadrone · Member Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 434 Location: London, UK

I use English UK.

Unfortunately, the shortcut doesn't work. When I depress CTRL+ALT+O it doesn't perform the fadeout as it's waiting for me to type an Ó, as that is what is shown in the list. If that makes sense?
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ilpadrone · Member Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 434 Location: London, UK

I've just closed Wavelab and started it again... Now the 'O' is showing correctly in the list of shortcuts, but it still isn't working. Where as the 'I' is still showing as 'Í', and is also not working.

I've used another program to check that the keyboard is being read correctly as regards implementing new short cuts (as I'm doing here on Wavelab); the problem does NOT exist on this other program.... Would this mean it's a bug?

EDIT: I've been able to replicate the problem on another PC, the same thing occurs. Operating systems are Windows 7 64 bit (but installed as an X86) and Windows 7 32 bit Professional.
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