No Waveforms Show Up When Recording A Track

[dcisive]

I just loaded Waveform 13 and it has been working great, especially with all my UAD and Waves plug ins. I'd been using Luna with my Apollow Twin X prior and it was a pain. Plenty of latency where this Waveform 13 has none so far. However it's driving me nuts that I can not get those waveforms showing when recording a track showing me the signal qualities and such in case I'd ever wish to edit some. What am I missing? I've looked at every imaginable setting and nothing is missing including all the check marks for showing the waveforms in the menus. I sure hope it's something really easy as I must be about the only person with this issue. The audio is superb so no issues there, and the meters work great. Just no waveforms to work with or view on a given recorded track.

[jabe]

Waveform doesn't have a direct sound wave editor.

Waveform makes great use of right-click menus. Right-click on an element and it will give you appropriate options for that element. Most Windows programs should make more use of right-click menus.

If you right-click over a particular wave image, you will get a menu showing what Waveform can do with the image. You can, for instance, split the waveform at any point of join separate waveforms on a track.

One option is listed near the bottom of the menu. It gives you the option of editing the waveform in an external editor. Mine says "Edit using audacity.exe" and has been set the way for some years now. It was so long ago that I'm not certain how one sets the editor to use, but it might allow you to do it if you just click on whatever the unspecified editor text is. If you haven't already used Audacity, it is free and very useful. I don't recall whether clicking the unspecified editor text allows you to browse to the relevant .exe file.

Let us know what you find when you try it.

[dcisive]

Thats odd because quite some time ago I played around with Waveform and it had those waveforms created on a track when one recorded just like virtually ALL DAW's do create. I wasn't aware any DAW's didn't provide that waveform to show the input signal recorded and it's level. How is this possible that it no longer is there? Surely I'm not mistaken as it once was. I just figured there was some box somewhere that I needed to click a check mark on to activate it, although I would have expected it to be there automatically as the check boxes for it ARE checked.

[dcisive]

It took some tinkering but I just KNEW there had to be waveforms shown for recorded information on each track but it wasn't there. So I was playing around and had my mouse cursor on the track and using my wheel on my mouse noticed it was changing a parameter I wasn't aware of or didn't know anything about. As the "Snap Resolution" was being changed all of a sudden a Waveform bar appeared and was lengthened or shortened according to the manipulation of my mouse wheel. Once adjusted nicely ALL the sound waveform is now in place as it should be. Weird. Who would have thought it necessary to mess around like this to get what is a primary function of ALL DAW's out there, showing those waveforms of the recorded info. So now I'm one happy camper.

[pough]

Who would have thought it necessary to mess around like this to get what is a primary function of ALL DAW's out there, showing those waveforms of the recorded info.

It sounds like you were just way zoomed out so that the clips were too small to display. When Snap Resolution is set to "Smart" it will change as your zoom level changes. I think the default action for mouse scrolling is zoom.

Some handy keyboard shortcuts to know:
F5 = zoom to fit horizontally (show song start to finish)
F6 = zoom to fit vertically (show all tracks)
N = zoom to fit horizontally and vertically
F7 = zoom in to marked region
F8 = zoom in to cursor (five seconds on each side)