I am a new user of Wavelab, though not to audio editing. I have used Soundforge and Peak extensively previously, and once again, I am back doing some professional work. Having bought Wavelab Elements recently, I am stuck with one task.
I have to convert many old sample CDs to WAV files, but there’s a catch: each track on the CD comprises multiple samples. I’ve imported 1 track, and there are 20 odd samples, 90 odd tracks per CD; between each sample there is a few seconds of silence.
Is it possible to batch-process this either with Elements or Pro to create a single file for each sample?
I use Session2WAV for this, it does each track in an instant, but it does not batch things so it’s one track at a time. I did a few in Wavelab this past weekend but couldn’t figure out a way to do it ‘automatically’ there. I did however finally learn a bunch of hot keys for simple stuff like placing markers, copy/pasting things into new files, and auto-splitting hah.
The auto-split wasn’t too bad. You just need to go through each track, place a marker at the beginning of each sample, make sure they’re lined up, and Auto-Split the file into 5,6 ,7, etc new ones…
Sometimes Session2WAV will make a single sample into 2 if its got some silence in the middle, and if you’ve got samples that are intended to have silence for a bit before they play, it will chop that sample right where the audio starts. You just have to keep an eye out but it works pretty great.
I’d love to hear how to do this with Wavelab though, even without batch processing, it would be a lot quicker to load up multiple tracks into a project, hit a command to detect the transients or whatever and make a marker, and split, move to the next bunch.
It’s slow; I open each track in the audio editor to audition it, make any corrections, then open that as an audio montage, split at silences, then create markers with R and render those.
That’s the best I can do 
I’d love to batch this like how I did in SoundForge.
WaveLab Pro has an auto-split tool (eg. to split at silence points), but it is not present in WaveLab Elements.
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@PG1 this is the same CMD-T Auto-Split tool?? I’ll have to go through the options again, I don’t remember seeing silence as an option, but by the time I realized the tool was there, I already had all my markers placed and just went through the default settings for it…
I’ve still got a couple of those discs WAV files ripped on my Mac, I’ll have to try this out when I get home tonight!
NICE! I think I flew right past it as soon as I saw the "Split According to Markers’ selected… Going to give that a try right now with the same CD I cut up last week!
Upgraded to Pro and I’ve flown through them, thank you @PG1
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And thanks from me too @PG1
That worked great. I went through about 35 tracks with 10 drum loops each in a matter of minutes. Once I got the silence/region settings a little more refined, I could just hit CMD+T and go right to the ‘Finish’ button and be done.
I ran into a couple I had to ‘tweak’ since they had some drum loops with some pauses in them. Just needed some slight adjustment to the silence and region settings and it was perfect. Same with the tracks full of ‘fx’ and one shots. Just had to set the region settings based on the sample lengths and the silence between them and it was GREAT.
Is there any way to prevent Wavelab from creating the GPK files for the new chopped samples? It creates those every time, and I go back into the folder and delete them. If I drag them back into the project and close them, it will wipe them out, but for some reason it always seems to leave a few hanging around after I close Wavelab. (I’ve noticed it doesn’t like to delete that weird temp file it makes with the $$$ extension too)
