The second new track type – and arguably one of the most overdue additions to WaveLab – is the video track. You can even route reference tracks to their own output on your audio I/O hardware. The first of these, Reference Tracks, allows you to include guide audio in the montage’s timeline, and to seamlessly switch between monitoring the reference and main montage output. This new tool consolidates clip-, track- and montage-level handling of plug-ins, volume and routing, packing all into a single control panel that, by default, sits conveniently in the same toolbox as the Master Section.Īlong with the Inspector, montages have had some other improvements, too, with a new, smarter-looking track header design, the ability to freely resize tracks and two new track types. New here is the Montage Inspector that replaces the Effect Tool panel found in previous versions (for the uninitiated, a ‘montage’ is WaveLab-speak for an album or collection of audio clips). WaveLab 10’s interface retains its standard look and feel, with moveable and dockable tool windows surrounding the main waveform view. This latest release brings WaveLab up to the same version-10 labelling as its stablemates Cubase and Nuendo – and brings a number of new features along with some general improvements. In the years since its release, WaveLab has become one of the core products in Steinberg’s stable of thoroughbreds, receiving regular updates and improvements to keep up with the digital-audio art of the possible.

From the get-go, WaveLab’s capabilities dovetailed perfectly with the needs of audio professionals and hobbyists alike: it simplified the process of creating audio CD masters that could be sent for duplication it provided a far, far better approach to editing and manipulating samples than poking around on the little LCD screens that adorned the hardware samplers of the day and in broadcasting, its slick editing and rapid workflow were a massive improvement over the exquisitely expensive systems many broadcasters were then using.

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