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Waveform View

Make selections, extract and reverse channels, and run a host of waveform actions. Click-drag a purple range to select and zoom in. Press Z to un-zoom one level, or A to zoom out fully.

Waveform view

To select without zooming, hold Shift — a yellow range appears instead. You can also toggle Disable WF Zoom in the options to make this the default behavior.

Yellow range selection

With a yellow range visible, you can drag it via the top third of the waveform or the DnD Bar.

You can also do destructive editing — Trim and Delete buttons appear in the lower right.

DnD Bar (Drag-n-Drop bar)

DnD Bar

The DnD Bar is the empty area next to the waveform — used to quickly drag a selected file (or selection) to any destination. Files run through pitch and plugin processing unless Force Ref is on.

Default is the left side of the waveform, but you can move it to the right side or center via Options → Waveform.

Waveform Options

View these from Help → Options Page → Waveform tab, or right-click the waveform and choose the bottom option. Hover any option for a tooltip explaining what it does.

Waveform options panel

Waveform Actions

Waveform right-click actions

Right-click the waveform for the full set of actions and options.

Rebuild Waveform F5

Rebuilds the .wf cache file. Handy if a waveform draws incorrectly, or if a file changed externally without triggering an update.

Build All Waveforms

Creates .wf cache files for every result currently shown in the Results List.

Add Marker / Region M

Sets a CUE marker, or a CUE region if a yellow range is selected.

Sum to Mono Shift+M

Sums channels to mono so you can export as a mono file.

Reverse File Ctrl/Cmd+R

Physically reverses the file and creates a temp file to play. The waveform turns purple.

Reversed waveform shown in purple
Skip Silence on waveform

Skip Silence Standard / Ultra

Skips dead air at the start and end of files — marked with orange START / END labels.

Trigger Points marker

Trigger Points Ultra only

Hold Shift and click the waveform to drop a green Trigger Marker. Re-trigger the file from this point with the spacebar (or, in the future, a MIDI controller).

Tip: click the triangle at the top of the marker to remove it.

Markers

The waveform supports CUE, Loop, Region, and Sync Point markers.

All marker types on the waveform

View the detailed Marker Panel page →

Destructive editing

For destructive actions, hold Shift and wipe a yellow range across the waveform. The destructive options then appear.

Delete Selected Region Del

Destructively removes the yellow-region selection.

Trim to Selection Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T

Destructively removes the head and tail around the yellow region.

Overwrite Edited File Ctrl/Cmd+S

Replaces the existing file with your edited version.

Mash & Replace Standard / Ultra

Appears only if a Split File is detected — saves the split files as interleaved.

Save File As Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+S

Saves the edited file as a new file.

Timecode support

With the T.C. button enabled in the transport, files containing a timecode stamp will display timecode in the waveform timeline.

Waveform showing timecode

Spectral overlays non-Free editions

Right-click the waveform to enable a host of layers showing audio data in real time:

  • Spectrogram View — full spectrogram visualization
  • Real-Time FFT Bars — live frequency bars (Low / Medium / High opacity)
  • Spectral Centroid — brightness indicator
  • Energy Bands — frequency balance across bands
  • Onset Detection — transient / hit markers
  • Peak Frequency — dominant pitch tracking
  • Crest Factor — punchiness / dynamic-range indicator
  • Loudness (LUFS) — loudness measurement overlay
  • Spectral Flatness — tonal vs. noise indicator
  • Spectral Rolloff — high-frequency content boundary
  • Zero Crossing Rate — noise vs. tonal character
Spectral overlay 1
Spectral overlay 2
Spectral overlay 3