Wavetool Home Screen

The main window of Wavetool is where you can monitor, arrange, and see details about the channel strips that are in your system.
The Wavetool main window

Toolbar

The Select tool, a pointed index finger icon Select: Choose this icon and then click or tap channels to solo. When a channel is soloed, the audio will be sent to Wavetool's audio output device.
Tip: Use the arrow keys for faster navigation.
The Zoom tool, an icon of an eye Zoom: Select a channel to open a timeline with detailed channel information. For more information, go to the Timeline Window topic.

The Select and Zoom tool, an icon of a pointed index finger over an eye. Select and zoom: Select a channel to both solo and see detailed timeline information.

Panel A and B icons Panel views : Move between panels A and B. Select which panel each channel strip appears on in Channel I/O.

The Solo Clear icon Solo Clear: Clear all soloed channels, including hard solos, by pressing Solo Clear for 1.5 seconds. Adjust this timing in your preferences.

The Alert Reset icon Alert Reset: Clear all alerts.
Tip: Hold Shift and left click a channel to reset a single channel alert.

The Chat icon Chat: Open the chat window. For more information, see the Chat topic.

A screenshot of example group icons Group buttons (1-8): Groups that have channels assigned to them are displayed here. Listen to all the channels in a group by pressing the group button. For more information, go to the Groups and Snapshots topic.

Channels

On each channel strip, you can see the channel name, channel image, and a green line with the last 10 seconds of incoming audio level. Audio levels below -48 dBFS are not shown.

Adding a channel image can help you and other users identify talent. To learn how to add a picture to a channel, go to the Players topic.

A channel with an image
When connected to a wireless receiver, you'll also see active antenna input (A/B) and a battery indicator at the top of the channel strip.
Note: For some receivers (Axient, Axient Digital, ULX-D, EM6000, EM9046, Sony DWX Gen3) you can see the battery status in hours and minutes. This is available when the transmitter is used with the manufacturer's own rechargeable battery and the receiver shows this value.

Click or tap a channel to listen to it.

Visual indicators for channels:
  • Green line: Last 10 seconds of incoming audio
  • Orange line: Last 10 seconds of received antenna signal strength, combined from all antennas, showing the highest value. Individual values for all antennas can be seen in the Timeline window.
  • Green frame: Active channel. You can change the solo mode in preferences.
  • White frame: Channel is in hard solo mode
  • Red overlay with SCP symbol: Problem with channel. To clear the alert, click Reset or hit the space bar. For more information, go to the SCP topic.
  • Pink dashes above channel name: Quality level. Only available for some receivers. Quality level can be low even if RF level is high.
  • Red dashes above channel name: Specific to Sound Devices A10 RACK with A10-RX. The transmitter has a memory card slot and it allows the user to record directly to the memory card. Wavetool is able to show if the recording is on and displays it on each channel strip in red.
  • Background of channel name is in color: The channel is part of a group. For more information, go to the Groups and Snapshots topic.