Hello! Loving the WaveLab 13 update. Some terrific new stuff including the Atmos infrastructure.
Yet I do have some comments / questions, so please forgive me!
In the video, “Overview of the Dolby Atmos Workspaces in WaveLab Pro” it is stated that in an Atmos Master Montage, “You can insert VST plugins across up to 128 audio channels, apply processing at the clip, track, bed or output level…”. But how does this work? Is a clip a part of the complete ADM, or just a track? Because I can only create clips on individual tracks (not across the entire ADM even when I select a range across all tracks), and I can only apply effects to these track clips (mono or stereo). Is that correct?
I am disappointed that I do not appear to be able to execute this workflow, especially as I was counting on it in order to overcome a seeming bug in Nuendo (see below!):
I have a complete seamless album that I have created and mastered in Nuendo and exported from Nuendo as a single ADM, plus a marker track defining the Titles. I would now like to open this in a WaveLab Dolby Atmos Album Montage and split/export the ADM into individual Title ADMs. Ignoring my exported markers for a moment, it seems that I can do this by using “Clip: Create from Selection” or “Split at Cursor”; this creates new clips with markers. I can now re-name all the resultant Markers then Render All Titles (I get an error if I don’t do this as all the markers get the same title name; you cannot analyse loudness until you’ve done this, either!). So far, so good.
But there are a couple of issues. Firstly, when I create the new clip with the Marker window open, the markers are not immediately created correctly. I have to move one, then undo, to cause the programme to catch up. Minor issue once I know what’s going on!
The other issue is with what I really want to do - use my exported markers. My track markers from Nuendo import fine. But if I try to export All Titles from WaveLab, I get an error message that I have “xx number of Titles” but only 1 clip. So it fails. The obvious thing to do is to individually select the audio between each track master, then “Create from Selection” as above. Unfortunately this immediately deletes all my imported markers and replaces them with new automatic markers created around the newly created clips. That rather defeats the object! I’ve tried locking the imported markers (incidentally, a function to lock/unlock “all selected markers”, perhaps by holding down the alt key as you hit the lock box, would be most welcome across the board!) but that does not help. Is this a bug? (And a simple function “create clips from track markers” would also be generally fabulous - we have “create titles from clips”, could we also have “create clips from titles”?).
In standard Workspaces, of course, you can export titles defined by Markers - if this was possible in the Atmos Workspace you would not need to “create clips from titles”…)
Incidentally, I should be able to export individual titles as ADM files in Nuendo (i.e. set cycle markers to track markers and export selection to ADM) but this results in uneven track lengths as described here (including a note as to why it’s important for Atmos): https://forums.steinberg.net/t/sample-accurate-cycle-marker-export/1021501?u=mark_ayres
Many thanks!
