The workings of wave editors may be familiar to many people, so let’s look instead at what’s new in WaveLab 8.ĭuring mastering, auditioning your sound on different speakers is absolutely vital, to ensure that the end result sounds as good as it can on as wide a range of speakers as it can. Files can be manipulated in almost any way conceivable, and there’s support for a huge array of import and export formats, batch processing, the ability to export podcasts and even upload directly to SoundCloud. Once you have loaded one or more audio files into Wavelab, or indeed recorded them directly in, you have a wealth of options available to you as regards editing, processing and analysis. There’s a lot you can do with windows, including telling WaveLab where to live in the context of your computer’s screen. It won’t bother everyone of course and it’s not a deal-breaker, but for a company that is so good at user interfaces (as a quick glance at Cubase will show), it just seems a shame that WaveLab feels a bit clunky.
#Stienberg wavelab code
This is a result of WaveLab's history as a Windows application and the difficulty of completely rewriting legacy code for a new platform. The graphical feel is still very Windows-centric, though this can be changed by switching the look to the “Mac OS” option. The basic approach of the app is broadly similar, and will be familiar to anyone who has used it before.
Before we get to those however, a quick look at what’s not changed. WaveLab 8 builds on the already excellent version 7 and adds many of the tools that Cubase 7 or Nuendo 6 users might recognize as having been new in their most recent updates. It’s far more than just a wave editor of course, offering advanced audio analysis and metering as well as multitracking and audio “montage”, a feature particularly well suited to creating podcasts or radio broadcasts.
#Stienberg wavelab software
This wave editing and mastering application existed for much of its life only on the PC but at version 6 was ported to the Mac, bringing the much-loved software to Apple users, some of whom had kept a PC on hand simply to run it. Steinberg is perhaps best known for Cubase, its flagship DAW, but has also for many years been making WaveLab.