As with most audio applications (or any apps for that matter) you will get the most out of Wavelab if you start off by taking a little time to get set up. Setting up Wavelab to recognize your audio card, and your audio card to operate efficiently while running Wavelab is a good start. This is the key to utilizing your hardware to its full potential, and can mean the difference between a mediocre editing experience, and being able to play back multi-channel audio and record efficiently at high resolution.
In order to access the audio card settings for Wavelab, browse to “Preferences…” from the Options menu and select the “Audio Card” tab.
Here you can select the drivers that you want Wavelab to use from the dropdown menus. Generally you will want to select the ASIO driver that corresponds with your audio interface, but Wavelab can work using MME or WDM drivers if necessary. If you are using MME or WDM you can change buffer size and numbers individually for playback and record just below the name of each driver you have selected, but with ASIO drivers you will only have the “Buffer Number” option available here. Most ASIO settings are generally done through your ASIO control panel, which can be accessed by clicking the “Control Panel” button.
One thing to keep in mind when choosing driver settings for Wavelab is the fact that while latency is an issue when using n application like Cubase or Nuendo, in this environment the most important thing is stable audio playback and recording. So don’t enter values that offer the lowest latency value but rather a fairly low buffer number that provides smooth playback, and should you begin getting dropouts (audio glitches) during playback, just raise the Buffer Number setting
Next you should set up a location for Wavelab to store temporary files. Wavelab uses this space to store undo data among other things. This “temp” directory is extremely important, is constantly being used, and requires quite a bit of disk space. Though this may not be possible for everyone, the best possible place to create this temp file directory (folder) is on a separate hard drive from the one you will be saving your regular files to. In fact if it is also your fastest drive, this can also speed up file handling and improve overall performance.
You can enter a location for the temp directory by going to the File tab on the same Options dialog that we used to set up your audio, and browsing to the desired folder or creating a new one.
Next look at the “Performance” section directly below the “Folder for temporary files” setting that we just dealt with. This deals with the buffer size used when reading data from hard disk, and if you think you may be having a problem with disk reading such as problems during playback where multiple files are playing at the same time, you may want to raise this value. If you do so you should generally raise the number or size of those playback buffers we discussed earlier. Be careful not to check the “Use system cache” field unless you know it would be beneficial given your specific system. --top-- |
