USING A WAVEFORM EDITOR WITH HARBOR

You can closely link the Harbor Audio Manager with your favorite audio file editing program (a.k.a. “waveform editor”), allowing you to quickly edit any audio file in your inventory.

With a single mouse click from Harbor, you can launch your favorite waveform editor program to edit the audio file of your choice.

You can even have Harbor automatically launch your editor software with the audio file of your choice already loaded into it and ready for editing.

Configuring Harbor for your editor
When Harbor is first installed, you obviously have not yet had a chance to tell Harbor the identity of your favorite audio waveform editing software.

In order to be able to use this feature, you first have to go into Harbor’s Tools/Preferences menu and set the “Waveform Editor” options accordingly.

The "Waveform Editor" button
Once you have configured your editor of choice into Harbor via the Tools/Preferences menu, all you need to do to launch your favorite waveform editor program from Harbor is click the “Waveform Editor” button located along the bottom of the main Launcher window.

Clicking this button will automatically launch your editor program in a separate window.

If you have not yet configured an editor program for use by Harbor and you click the “Waveform Editor” button, Harbor will pop up a warning message stating that no editor has yet been configured, and that you need to do so in Harbor’s “Tools/Preferences” menu before you can use this button.

Exporting files into the editor
If you have selected the “Export File” option in Harbor’s “Waveform Editor” settings, this opens up a time saving shortcut; any file you have currently displayed in a File Detail view will automatically be loaded into your editor and ready for editing.

The help section entitled "Supported Waveform Editors" provides a partial list of waveform editors that have been tested for compatibility with Harbor's Waveform Editor button and the "Export file" feature.

NOTE:  Not all waveform editors can edit all audio file formats supported by Harbor Audio Manager. Attempting to automatically load a file into your editor of a format it does not support can cause your editor software to generate an error message. See the documentation included with your editor software for information on its supported file formats.