Two questions - resampling quality and grouping

[shkr]

Hi!

I'm new to Waveform, read the manual, watched some tutorials, all is good. Waveform seems well thought out, I must admit I quite like this paradigm of creating tracks acting like busess and so on. Also I'm positively suprised how configurable Waveform is. Refreshing! In general all is good.
But for now I've got two questions - please explain.

In preferences/general/editing there's "default resampling quality" set to 'normal' by default. What is this setting for and which parts are affected by it? Is it for clips with time-streching active or for other things too? And for experienced users - how do you use it? You leave it on default setting or change it with higher options? or before mixdown? I am before importing first big project into waveform - how this setting will impact the cpu?

Second thing: is there a possibility to group two different clips on two different tracks so I can move them as one? Think guitar left and gutar right clip. For now I know that I can create a group, but it is for whole tracks, not for single clips. I can put tracks in folder/submix and move/split clips on that track but it is not optimal. I can group clips (ctrl+G) but only on a single track. And I can link clips but it is completely different thing. So is there a function to do it or I must use one of the above methods?

[dysjoint]

So from memory, normal is lagrange and then there are 3 sinc settings? You can also change these per clip, in the properties. They do have different artifacts if you are doing any drastic time stretching. You need to experiment. It's better to have your audio clips and project at the same sample rate IMHO. Proxy file will 'freeze' the clip so it shifts the burden from cpu to ram somewhat, pretty sure this uses lagrange. So, they do have an audible difference in certain situations, they do have a different cpu load.

[shkr]

thanks! Do you know if this setting is only for clips with timestreching (where we can also change it on per clip basis) or does it also do something to tracks/clips with no timestreching? There's nothing about it in Waveform manual unfortunatelly.

[Peter Widdicombe]

For guitar left/right - is this a single guitar recorded with stereo effects unit, or are you intentionally processing 2 guitar signals independently? Standard way to do this would be to simply record the guitar as stereo in the first place. On the audio device when recording, make sure you have "treat as stereo pair".

[shkr]

no - in this particular case I meant double tracked guitars (which I like to group and move as one). Or another example would be for instance 3 different claps or snares hitting as "one" or anything multilayered really that you want to be grouped. Seems Waveform doesn't have the option to group different clips right now. So I will have to use track grouping or folder/submix tracks. It can be done this way I would just prefer to have a simple clips grouping option.

[talby]

Maybe you are using the FREE version and there grouping clips localized on different tracks is not available? In the PRO version it is possible.
Just select various clips with CTRL + LeftMouseClick, they can be on distributed on various tracks and at different positions on the timeline, then in the context menu (RightMouseClick) or by keyboard shortcut ALT + G group them, afterwards move them around together as a group, the clips of the group staying relative to each other on distance in the timeline and on distance between track X and track N, like they had their localization pattern initially. So, you could also move the group back into place and each clip will be on its track and their on its position in the timeline as before.

[shkr]

hmmm... well I've got full Waveform Pro latest version. And what I find is that "group" (default shortcut here is ctrl+G not alt+g) groups clips but only on one track. When I multiselect clips on different tracks with ctrl or shift than I of course can move them as one but as soon as I select something else clips connection is lost and they function separately. "Group" (ctrl+G) does nothing for clips on different tracks here. Are you sure it works this way on your system?

[talby]

@shkr You are right. I am very sorry for my wrong statement. I today checked it again and don't get it to work by grouping. I also see that in the Properties Panel there is no checkbox by its name hinting to an action which could achieve this.
The only thing I can do for clips is to select several ones and to then move them around. But for a next time application I have to redo the multiple selection, it is not remembered.