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.
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.
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)
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 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.
Skip Silence Standard / Ultra
Skips dead air at the start and end of files — marked with orange START / END labels.
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.
Offline Processing Standard, Ultra
Right-click the waveform → Offline Processing for destructive edits to the open file. Most items audition first; commit with Overwrite Edited File or Save File As… ESC cancels. Fast keys — D (Create Fade), G (Gain), N (Normalize) — are rebindable in Options → Shortcuts (Waveform category).
Channel / format ops
Sum to Mono Shift+M
Sums all channels to mono. (All editions.)
Crashdown if Mono
If the file plays mono content on multiple channels, collapses it to a true single-channel mono file.
Swap Left/Right
Flips the L and R channels. (Stereo files only.)
Balancer
Adjusts the left/right channel balance with an inline slider. (Stereo files only.)
Sample edits — level, fades, time
Gain… G
Inline Level slider (−24 to +24 dB). Live audition, and the waveform scales taller / shorter as you drag so you can see the change. Apply to bake, ✕ to cancel.
Normalize… N
Normalize-to-peak with a Level slider. Like Gain, the waveform now visually scales with the slider as you drag.
Remove DC Offset
Instant. Analyzes per-channel DC mean and subtracts it. If nothing significant is found, reports “No significant DC offset found” and leaves the file alone.
Create Fade D
Inline fade in or out. Length slider sets the duration; shape the curve by dragging up / down on the waveform — same feel as TWEAKER’s ADSR curve.
Envelope (Pitch + Volume)…
Draw a pitch and / or volume envelope over the file with a multi-point curve.
Reverse File Ctrl/Cmd+R
Physically reverses the file. The waveform turns purple while reversed. (Ultra only.)
Trim Head/Tail
Trims the file’s leading and trailing silence to a threshold.
Strip Gaps…
Removes dead-air regions inside the file. Threshold sets what counts as silence; Padding keeps some breathing room on each side of every removed gap. Shaded regions show what’s about to be cut.
Stats
Audio Stats
Per-channel peak, RMS, LUFS and other measurements for the open file. (All editions.)
Markers
The waveform supports CUE, Loop, Region, and Sync Point markers.
View the detailed Marker Panel page →
Destructive editing Standard, Ultra
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.
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
