WaveLab is a
digital audio editor
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and recording
computer software
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application for
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and
macOS
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, created by
Steinberg
Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH (trading as Steinberg; ) is a German musical software and hardware company based in Hamburg. It develops software for writing, recording, arranging and editing music, most notably Cubase, Nuendo, and Dorico. It ...
. WaveLab was started in 1995 and it is mainly the work of one programmer, Philippe Goutier.
Audio can be edited as a single file, a series of files or a multitrack "montage". It fully supports
VST 2 and 3 plugins for audio processing. Cut-down versions of WaveLab are available as WaveLab Elements and WaveLab LE.
Features and usage
In addition to recording audio from multiple sources, WaveLab can be used for post-processing of all types of audio. It is popularly used for mastering audio, but also facilitates basic usage such as editing
podcast
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s.
* Single-window dockable user interface with multiple themes, fully scalable
* Maximum sample rate of 384 kHz and bit depth of 32-bit floating point
* Encodes, imports and allows editing metadata of various file formats such as
WAV,
FLAC
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,
OGG
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,
AIFF AIFF may refer to:
* Audio Interchange File Format
* All India Football Federation, the national governing body of Association football in India
Film festivals
* Addis International Film Festival, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
* Alexandria Internation ...
,
MP3
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and
AAC
* DDP (
Disc Description Protocol) and included shareable DDP Player
* Offline loudness analysis (EBU-compliant)
* Extensive batch processing features and scripting
* Render button to render changes to sound files while they are playing
* Spectrum Editor with various display settings and editing tools
* "Audio Inpainting" to recreate missing content by analyzing the surrounding area
* Visualizers such as a spectrometer, phase scope and wave scope
* Real-time spectrogram for playback and monitored signals
* Mid/Side viewing, processing and editing
* Modern time-stretching and pitch-shifting algorithms
* Folder watching for automatic offline processing
* Full integration of external effects hardware
* Master Section with effect slots, re-sampling, master level, final effects/dithering, playback processing and speaker configuration
* Direct exchange and ASIO driver sharing with
Cubase
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and
Nuendo
Nuendo is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by Steinberg for music recording, arranging, editing, and post-production. The package is aimed at audio and video post-production market segments (marketed as a 'Premium Media Production Sys ...
* Various effects and processors including the MasterRig and RestoreRig plug-in bundles, and offline processors
See also
*
Steinberg Cubase
Cubase is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by Steinberg for music and MIDI recording, arranging and editing. The first version, which was originally only a MIDI sequencer and ran on the Atari ST computer, was released in 1989. Cut-do ...
*
Nuendo
Nuendo is a digital audio workstation (DAW) developed by Steinberg for music recording, arranging, editing, and post-production. The package is aimed at audio and video post-production market segments (marketed as a 'Premium Media Production Sys ...
References
External links
Official website(archive.org)
*Steinberg offers free versions of Cubase WaveLab and more in it
#StayHome Elements bundle
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Digital audio workstation software
Soundtrack creation software