I use Wavelab primarily to record vinyl for transfer to CD. Lots of old albums in this house; 78’s, 45’s, 33-1/3 rpm. Pretty much everything you can imagine. Over 15,000 I am proud to say.
I jumped from Wavelab 6 to Wavelab 8.5. To break the album down into separate wave files for CD with Wavelab 6 I could hold down the “Ctrl+Shift+arrow” to select the correct portion of the wave file and then “Shift + arrow” to refine the stop point. Then I would merely copy, paste and save it into a new file for each particular tune. Wavelab 8.5 does not do this. Can anyone help me with these simple keyboard shortcuts?
Even in WL6 I would have approached that task (looking at a single file of the entire album side) by high-lighting the area of the individual track by clicking-and-dragging the mouse to get the approximate range visually, and in WL8.5 you can then click-and-hold that high-lighted area and drag the entire thing upwards and to the right into the tab area of the wave editor display and it automatically creates a new “view” (tab) of the original area of the audio in a separate display.
Transferring vinyl is even easier by just dropping markers and building a basic audio CD though. If you need to process tracks individually, the Audio Montage is your friend.
Perhaps I’m misunderstanding what you are ultimately trying to accomplish, but is there a reason you don’t use Wavelabs feature that auto-detects the silence, automatically labels each track by number, and stores them in a file? Then it’s very easy to create a CD. You wouldn’t be messing with selecting positions, altering them, copy and pasting them.
Maybe I don’t understand your ultimate goal. I’m pretty sure you could do this in WL6 too.