There was a ton of new stuff in version 8 as well, so for users of earlier versions, leaping straight to 8.5 will bring you a lot of excellent features that you may not currently have.
Making Waves? The updates to WaveLab 8.5 are definitely worth having for users of version 8. The applications are clear, and this saves you having to constantly access the export dialog. You can now export a project to a number of different file formats at the same time by setting up several formats in the export window and using format presets, then it’s a sort of ‘fire and forget’ thing where you hit OK and it outputs them all. There’s expanded format support including AAC encoding for Apple devices.Īlso new is multi-format rendering, potentially a huge timesaver. This has been available in plug-in format, notably the Sonnox Fraunhofer Pro-Codec (£295), for some time, but it’s great to have it as part of WaveLab. You can flip between the streams with no clicks or perceivable latency to hear how each one sounds. It’s better than it used to be but there’s still room for improvement, especially when Steinberg’s DAW software really leads the way when it comes to usability.Įncode This! Next up is the Encoder Checker, a nifty new feature that generates a multi-stream preview of the original source audio plus up to three encoded streams with configurable quality settings and a real-time FFT graph. This is a legacy of the sheer amount of things that WaveLab has taken on over time, coupled with a user interface that remains a bit fiddly. It’s not entirely transparent just how you get this stuff up and running initially, and even poking around the help files requires a bit of work. It can handle files at up to 384kHz and 24-bit, has unlimited undo and redo, specialised speaker management for switching speaker sets in software along with advanced editing tools and some great plug-ins including iZotope’s MBIT+ dithering, Voxengo’s CurveEQ and more, as well as support for all your own VSTs. And even though DAWs such as Cubase and Logic are now much more accomplished than before when paired with mastering plug-ins, the level of forensic detail that WaveLab offers is still impressive.
It’s not a conventional DAW but it is a real Swiss Army Knife of audio tools, able to cover everything from analysis and repair through multi-speaker monitoring, CD creation and batch processing.īack to the Lab For many years, WaveLab was the go-to mastering application for many producers working on computers. WaveLab was one of the first software wave editors to hit the pro audio world way back in 1995, and since then it has gained a stack of features (including, a few years ago, Mac compatibility).
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