Requirement
1. Backward compatibility for all markers and MRK files - Switch to old MRK coding
2. Marker Pair - Avoid writing extra generic marker to MRK and Wav End Marker.
3. Fix Default Marker Name Feature of Marker Tool Window.
4. Option to Disable Marker Head Selection.
The extensions GPK and MRK are not in caps anymore. Caps was an identifier for WL Marker Files.
Generic Marker
Even though the encoding of MRK is UTF8 in WL6 and WL12, WL12 is adding number 8 after name variable for all markers in MRK file
Name8=*
While in WL6 it was Name=
When 8 is removed from MRK file, All Marker Names are read on Wavelab 6 and 12.
Marker Pair
The MRK file Marker Name is Name8=
For a marker pair created in WL12, an extra Generic Marker Type=0 is written on the Loop End Marker in WL12 but not written on MRK. Therefore, MRK shows only 2 markers.
When the same file is edited and saved on WL6, without changing the Loop Points created in WL12, the MRK of WL6 has the following changes
Loop Markers become 3 i.e Marker, Marker 1 and Marker 2
The Names are changed to Name=
In the picture below, Reaper shows difference in End Marker created using WL12 in Red
For reference, you can also see an end marker from a marker pair created using Acon Digital’s Acoustica and opened in Reaper which is not a double marker like WL6/WL12.
WL6 Loop Name Change
In WL6, the Loop Marker Type 6 and 7, are named default as Loop Start and Loop End.
When this is brought to WL12 and the names are changed. The new names are not recognized by WL6, even after changing Name8= to Name= also even after deleting the MRK file.
Capital Letter Extension Test (ABCDabcd)
When 2 Markers are created on a file with WL6, WL6 saves a Marker file with .MRK
When 2 Markers are added to the same file on WL12, the MRK created by WL12 is also in Capital Letters as .MRK
When a file is first created in WL12, .mrk is in Small Letters. When this is edited in WL6, the small letter extension remains.
Loop Marker Head and Marker Head Selection
This may be useful for renaming in Marker - Tool Window, but it is distracting as the markers are moved from two places. Therefore, marker head selection has to be disabled or an option to enable marker head highlight for those who may want.
Default Marker Name
WL12 is not naming markers when default marker names (from Marker tool window) are assigned. By default, names of all types of markers are “Marker” and written as Marker, Marker1, Marker2, Marker3 etc. in the MRK (and not in wav file). Only a non-persistent naming works through insert tab of Ribbon.
