Topic: how to create tracks in wavelab?

[Chad817]

  tracking in cdwav is a lot easier though, and if you are ultimately going to be using flac anyway, you can output directly to flac and skip the individual wav track step.

I wasn't aware of this.  Thanks.

[Gordon]

  tracking in cdwav is a lot easier though, and if you are ultimately going to be using flac anyway, you can output directly to flac and skip the individual wav track step.

I wasn't aware of this.  Thanks.

works great for 16/44 or 16/48.  doesn't work for 24/96.

[John P]

In WaveLab make sure you have the marker toolbar visible.
For your first track, make sure the cursor is at the very beginning of the file.
Hover over the rainbow multicolored triangle on the marker toolbar and select it.  That brings up the new marker dialogue.
Select "cd track start" marker type for the first one. (The quantize to cd frame will be grayed out on the first track, but this will be an important check box in the following steps because checking it will avoid sector boundary errors).
Now, you can either have wavelab auto name your files (track 01, track 02 etc...) or you can untick the auto naming box and use the etree naming convention.  I will do the yourband2005-08-13d01t01 in the name field and then highlight it and copy the name to the clipboard.  That way, when I name the next track, I just paste it in and change the last #1 to a 2.

Now, on to track 2. 
Position the cursor to where you want the track to split.
Select the rainbow triangle on the marker toolbar again. 
This time, select "cd track splice" (you can leave it on "cd track start" and it will automatically convert to a splice marker, but I am ocd like that)
Make sure you have the "quantize to cd frame" box checked and it will locate the sector boundary for a perfect track change.
If you drop generic markers, wavelab just leaves them where you position the cursor.  Then when you split into separate tracks, you get sector boundary errors.  Using cd markers with the quantize function checked, wavelab will reposition the cursor to the closest sector boundary (don't worry, it is only miliseconds off of where you put your cursor)
Paste in your track name and you're off. 

Once you drop the cd markers, you can slide them where ever you want and wavelab will keep them aligned along sector boundaries.

Now that the cd is tracked out.  I open the audio cd burning dialogue.
file>new>basic audio cd
select the little black tringle at the top left of the dialogue box and then select the "add tracks" option.
Browse to your file and double click.
Now you have all tracks in the burning dialogue.
Punch the copy protect (little key icon) to deselect all copy protection checks.

From here you can burn the cd straight out by pressing cd>write cd  OR
you can press cd>save each track as a separate audio file (and it will write all files on sector boundaries as separate tracks while keeping your original file intact)
Now that you have all the tracks saved separately and named according to etree convention, you can drop them into the flac front end and flac 'em up.

Hope that helps.  Certainly, there are other ways to do it, but I have found this method to be the fastest and most efficient while leaving the original file intact.

[Ray76]

In WaveLab make sure you have the marker toolbar visible.
For your first track, make sure the cursor is at the very beginning of the file.
Hover over the rainbow multicolored triangle on the marker toolbar and select it.  That brings up the new marker dialogue.
Select "cd track start" marker type for the first one. (The quantize to cd frame will be grayed out on the first track, but this will be an important check box in the following steps because checking it will avoid sector boundary errors).
Now, you can either have wavelab auto name your files (track 01, track 02 etc...) or you can untick the auto naming box and use the etree naming convention.  I will do the yourband2005-08-13d01t01 in the name field and then highlight it and copy the name to the clipboard.  That way, when I name the next track, I just paste it in and change the last #1 to a 2.

Now, on to track 2. 
Position the cursor to where you want the track to split.
Select the rainbow triangle on the marker toolbar again. 
This time, select "cd track splice" (you can leave it on "cd track start" and it will automatically convert to a splice marker, but I am ocd like that)
Make sure you have the "quantize to cd frame" box checked and it will locate the sector boundary for a perfect track change.
If you drop generic markers, wavelab just leaves them where you position the cursor.  Then when you split into separate tracks, you get sector boundary errors.  Using cd markers with the quantize function checked, wavelab will reposition the cursor to the closest sector boundary (don't worry, it is only miliseconds off of where you put your cursor)
Paste in your track name and you're off. 

Once you drop the cd markers, you can slide them where ever you want and wavelab will keep them aligned along sector boundaries.

Now that the cd is tracked out.  I open the audio cd burning dialogue.
file>new>basic audio cd
select the little black tringle at the top left of the dialogue box and then select the "add tracks" option.
Browse to your file and double click.
Now you have all tracks in the burning dialogue.
Punch the copy protect (little key icon) to deselect all copy protection checks.

From here you can burn the cd straight out by pressing cd>write cd  OR
you can press cd>save each track as a separate audio file (and it will write all files on sector boundaries as separate tracks while keeping your original file intact)
Now that you have all the tracks saved separately and named according to etree convention, you can drop them into the flac front end and flac 'em up.

Hope that helps.  Certainly, there are other ways to do it, but I have found this method to be the fastest and most efficient while leaving the original file intact.

Thanks John!+T

[Cooker]

In WaveLab make sure you have the marker toolbar visible.
For your first track, make sure the cursor is at the very beginning of the file.
Hover over the rainbow multicolored triangle on the marker toolbar and select it. That brings up the new marker dialogue.
Select "cd track start" marker type for the first one. (The quantize to cd frame will be grayed out on the first track, but this will be an important check box in the following steps because checking it will avoid sector boundary errors).
Now, you can either have wavelab auto name your files (track 01, track 02 etc...) or you can untick the auto naming box and use the etree naming convention. I will do the yourband2005-08-13d01t01 in the name field and then highlight it and copy the name to the clipboard. That way, when I name the next track, I just paste it in and change the last #1 to a 2.

Now, on to track 2.
Position the cursor to where you want the track to split.
Select the rainbow triangle on the marker toolbar again.
This time, select "cd track splice" (you can leave it on "cd track start" and it will automatically convert to a splice marker, but I am ocd like that)
Make sure you have the "quantize to cd frame" box checked and it will locate the sector boundary for a perfect track change.
If you drop generic markers, wavelab just leaves them where you position the cursor. Then when you split into separate tracks, you get sector boundary errors. Using cd markers with the quantize function checked, wavelab will reposition the cursor to the closest sector boundary (don't worry, it is only miliseconds off of where you put your cursor)
Paste in your track name and you're off.

Once you drop the cd markers, you can slide them where ever you want and wavelab will keep them aligned along sector boundaries.

Now that the cd is tracked out. I open the audio cd burning dialogue.
file>new>basic audio cd
select the little black tringle at the top left of the dialogue box and then select the "add tracks" option.
Browse to your file and double click.
Now you have all tracks in the burning dialogue.
Punch the copy protect (little key icon) to deselect all copy protection checks.

From here you can burn the cd straight out by pressing cd>write cd OR
you can press cd>save each track as a separate audio file (and it will write all files on sector boundaries as separate tracks while keeping your original file intact)
Now that you have all the tracks saved separately and named according to etree convention, you can drop them into the flac front end and flac 'em up.

Hope that helps. Certainly, there are other ways to do it, but I have found this method to be the fastest and most efficient while leaving the original file intact.

just tried this - first of all thanks for the detailed explanation, +T

BEWARE of this approach, if your original wav is 48K, and when you do cd/save all tracks as wav files
if you leave it set at 44.1K, it will simply save them with a 44.1K header, it will not resample the file!
this will give you "Chipmunks"

i knew billy martin wasn't quite as bad of a badass as he sounds right now!

[John P]

just tried this - first of all thanks for the detailed explanation, +T

BEWARE of this approach, if your original wav is 48K, and when you do cd/save all tracks as wav files
if you leave it set at 44.1K, it will simply save them with a 44.1K header, it will not resample the file!
this will give you "Chipmunks"

Right!  I forgot to add, that this approach is for 16/44.1.
Use cd markers in your hi res files just as you would above.  BUT, once the file is tracked out, use the auto split function and save as individual tracks for flac'ing up.  Simply use your dithering algorithm of choice in the batch processor to bring the file to 16/44.1

+t backatcha

[F.O.Bean]

cdwave is da bomb!

[Gordon]

cdwave is da bomb!

no shit!  why in hell would you go through all that just to track ?!? 

[Ray76]

cdwave is da bomb!

no shit!  why in hell would you go through all that just to track ?!? 

i would do it that way just because I already use wavelab for adding gain, etc.. and as i am lazy , just saves an extra step.

[Gordon]

sounds like it adds about 10 steps.

[Ray76]

yeah,,i know..Ill be using CD WAVE from now on.. 

Wavelab is so near perfect for our uses so far(mine anyway) I just wish that the markers werent such a hassle. I actually tried doing it both ways, and the wavelab took about 22 minutes longer.
now if steinberg would buy cd wave, and incorporate the GUI from it...and add a more reliable Audio DVD creator function.... itd be great.


Teddy

[halleyscomet8]

i found cd wave to be much easier. i haven't stop transfering dat's since i figured this out last week. it is so much easier than i thought.

[NewHomebrew]

Use cd markers in your hi res files just as you would above.  BUT, once the file is tracked out, use the auto split function and save as individual tracks for flac'ing up.  Simply use your dithering algorithm of choice in the batch processor to bring the file to 16/44.1

I like your explanation about the CD track markers, thanks for laying that out.

One question though, when coming down from 24/96 would it be better to dither/downsample the entire file rather than the individual tracks?  I've had some trouble with ends/beginnings not matching up if I track first then downsample.  Maybe something is wrong in my settings.

[Ray76]

Use cd markers in your hi res files just as you would above.  BUT, once the file is tracked out, use the auto split function and save as individual tracks for flac'ing up.  Simply use your dithering algorithm of choice in the batch processor to bring the file to 16/44.1

I like your explanation about the CD track markers, thanks for laying that out.

One question though, when coming down from 24/96 would it be better to dither/downsample the entire file rather than the individual tracks?  I've had some trouble with ends/beginnings not matching up if I track first then downsample.  Maybe something is wrong in my settings.

if you try to do the whole file...you get the 2g file size limit...thus it is easier to split and then do it.
1.open the whole thing up....
2.split using the method above
3.)edit,track...(save the 24 bit files)
4.) downsample/dither

[dklein]

if you try to do the whole file...you get the 2g file size limit...

Another one of those things that makes wavelab a really dumb program.  You'll even run into problems with smaller files if you have the temp files set to 32 bit (which you should).  Files > 2GB are a reality of recording in the current age