first of all I want to shout out to @Justin_Perkins for his tutorials on how to use Wavelab. This was truly a great help in getting things up and running. Many thanks for that! This is awesome!
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There is one thing I was unsure whether this is intended or a bug.
Here is how to reproduce:
Start WaveLab Pro 12
Create New Montage from Audio Files
Select, e.g., 2 WAV files
Setup Montage location
Choose Stagger Files on Two Alternating Tracks
Use the Album Wizard to setup the track markers, which I’ve configured as follows (following JPs CD Init):
In the original montage move the reference track down to “Track 2”. Render the whole montage again. The resulting montage will not feature a reference track but a regular track instead:
Is this by intend? I was initally confused by this because after rendering the whole montage I could not hear anything during playback and thought something was broken.
I can produce and this is indeed a bug. To recreate a new montage, WaveLab takes the source one as a template. Since the first track is a reference track, this track is reused, but this should not be the case. Don’t set the first track as a reference track and the bug won’t appear.
I must admit that this did work in the first place. So after the first whole montage render I got a new montage that looked as expected. However, after a 2nd whole montage render the generated montage suddenly behaved as described.
What I did between those two renders was moving and renaming the tracks - but the reference track always was on the top - and performing the peak normalization you described in one of your tutorial videos just to get the level between the reference and regular clips right. But I doubt that this would cause that behavior.
Tanks for the confirmation @PG1. If there is anything you need to help you tracking down the issue feel free to contact me.