Steinberg has unveiled a significant update to its WaveLab mastering software, WaveLab 12. The latest version boasts new workflows, time-saving features, and numerous enhancements, making it the most substantial release for audio mastering and editing to date.
WaveLab 12’s ARA support enables seamless integration with popular DAWs, positioning it as an optimal choice for those seeking to refine their audio further. The software also introduces 80 new features and improvements, providing a comprehensive suite of cutting-edge tools suitable for world-class mastering facilities, music studios, and home hobbyists.
New in WaveLab 12:
- WaveLab inside your favorite DAW: WaveLab’s powerful Audio Editor can now be used as an ARA plug-in within your preferred DAW.
- Multi-color waveform: This feature allows users to visualize audio waveforms in multiple colors, emphasizing the spectral content.
- Drag&Drop audio exchange with other DAWs: Users can effortlessly transfer any audio range, with or without effects, from WaveLab to any other application, without any limitations.
- Loudness Analysis and Reporting: This feature enables the generation of personalized reports detailing all aspects of loudness and peak levels within your audio files and montages.
- Loudness matching: Users can match the loudness of reference tracks to the Audio Montage output and vice versa, enabling instantaneous, accurate A/B comparisons between mastered audio and reference sources.
- Automatic transient markers: This feature provides optional visual guidance for snapping audio selections to transient and release points.
- Visual analysis: Users can delve into the spectral details of their audio files and montages with a broad range of visual analysis tools.
- New Startup Assistant: The new Startup Assistant, featuring an extended session management section and a web display panel, helps kickstart your projects.
- Streamlined Audio Montage asset management: The revamped structure simplifies the organization of your audio montages, operating from a central folder that houses files and other folders.
- Extended quality assurance: new Null Test Track: This widely adopted audio measurement method for quality assurance has been added to the feature set.
- New plug-ins: WaveLab 12 has added SampleAlign, BlackValve, VoxComp, Raiser, EQ-P1A, and EQ-M5 to its plug-in arsenal.
- Plus, more than 60 productivity features: WaveLab 12 introduces over 60 productivity features across the entire application.
With its comprehensive range of features and improvements, WaveLab 12 is set to redefine the standards of audio mastering and editing.
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