Waveform View
The Waveform View allows you to make selection, extract and reverse channels along with many other functions.
If you Click-Drag and wipe a purple range across it and release the mouse button it will select and ZOOM in on the Waveform.
To un-zoom press (Z) per level to unzoom or (A) to zoom out all the way full.
If you prefer that it does NOT zoom in when making selections then hold SHIFT and it will make a Yellow Range instead like the below image. You can also toggle the option ‘Disable WF Zoom’ to always have this behavior.
When this yellow range is visible you can can either drag it by clicking in the top 1/3part of the WF between the yellow markers for with the DnD Bar. (mentioned below)
When visible, you can do Destructive Editing also. You will see ‘Trim’ and ‘Delete’ buttons appear in the lower right of the WF.
DnD Bar (Drag-n-Drop Bar)
The DnD Bar is the empty area next to the waveform and is used to quickly drag a selected file or selection of a file to any desired location. The file will also be ran thru pitch/plugin processing unless ‘Force Ref’ is ON.
NOTE: the default location is the left side of the Waveform but from the Options/Waveform settings tab you can set it to be either on the right side of the center of the waveform.
Waveform Options
You can view these from the menu Help/Options Page an click the Waveform tab or by right clicking the Waveform view select the bottom option.
These all have tooltips to explain exactly what they do when you hover over them
Waveform Actions
If you right click the Waveform or click the small gear icon in the top right of the waveform display you get a whole set of Actions and Options that can be done:
Rebuild Waveform (F5)
This remakes the .wf cache file. Handy if one gets incorrectly drawn OR if a file changed externally hasn’t triggered a WF update.
Build All Waveforms
create .wf cache files for all shown results in the current Results List
Add Marker/Region (M)
Sets a CUE Marker OR if a Yellow Range is selected a CUE Region.
Sum to Mono (Shift+M)
Sums Channels to Mono to allow export as a mono audio file.
Reverse File (Ctrl/Cmd+R)
Physically reverses the current file and creates a temp file to play with. The waveform will turn purple indicating this:
Skip Silence
(Standard/Ultra)
This feature skips over the over dead air in the front and end of the files and are marker with orange ‘START’ and ‘END’ labels.
Trigger Points
(Ultra Only)
Holding SHIFT and clicking on the WF creates a temporary green Trigger Marker that can be used to re-trigger the file from over and over with the spacebar and in the future a midi controller.
TIP: To remove it. just click on the Triangle at the top of the marker.
Markers
There are other different types of viewable markers available on the Waveform View such as CUE, Loop, Region and Sync Points.
For More Detailed Information ow to set them click the button below.
Destructive Editing
NOTE: For all destructive actions hold SHIFT and wipe a yellow range first across the Waveform and then these options with appear.
Delete Selected Region (DEL)
Destructively removes region that is selected with the YELLOW region when holding the SHIFT key
Trim to Selection (Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+T)
Destructively removes the head and tail around the selected YELLOW region
Overwrite Edited File (Ctrl/CMD) +S
Replaces existing file with updated version.
Save File As (Ctrl/Cmd)+Shift+S)
Saves edited file as a new file, but I’m sure you can figure that one out. 😉
TimeCode Support
with the T.C. button in the Transport enabled, files that contain a timecode stamp will display timecode in the timeline of the Waveform View.
VIDEO COMING with NEW FEATURES explained LIKE CHANNEL EXTRACTION, Destructiive Edition, Sum to Mono and other new features.