STEINBERG WAVELAB 6 PC
STEINBERG WAVELAB 6 WINDOWS

With 'Focused clip' menus on the right, aВ much more configurable Master Section on the left, and numerous tabbed Tool windows available across the top, Montages are even easier to assemble than before. Horizontal and vertical zooming functions now have thumbwheel graphics for easier control, and respond to your mouse scroll wheel when the cursor is superimposed on these graphics. The latter approach is aВ great improvement, since you can carefully arrange your mostвЂ‘used tool windows in tabbed sets (see screenshots), using some natty animated options to drag and drop the various tool-window sections where you wish, while all the others move themselves out of the way to make room. These tool windows provide great versatility: you can open and close them in standвЂ‘alone 'floating' mode above your workspace, as in previous Wavelab versions, or drag them to various onвЂ‘screen locations and dock them. There are also several dozen editing, viewing and analysis functions that you can now open in the new Tab area inside tabbed 'tool windows', covering such things as various metering alternatives, marker creation and editing, file browsing, error detection and correction, spectrum editing options and so on. While you could launch multiple instances of WavelabВ 6 to simultaneously work across several projects, this ability has also been seriously upgraded in WavelabВ 7, since each new workspace you open is aВ separate entity, enabling you to quickly switch between audio editing, album compilation, batch processing and podcast creation at will. For instance, even while writing this review IВ have the WavelabВ 7 Switcher superimposed over the title bar of my word processor, and can create aВ new file, open an existing one, or simply open an empty workspace in any of these categories.

The most obvious addition is the Windows Switcher, aВ small and resizeable floating window that remains visible at all times - even, by default, after switching to another application, although you can disable this if you wish - and which lets you leap straight into audio file editing, multitrack montage, batchвЂ‘processing or podcasting duties. There are also many graphically enhanced icons to take in on the customisable toolbars, and lots of new customising options to overwhelm the newcomer, although once you get to grips with them all you'll wonder how you ever managed without them! Some longвЂ‘term Wavelab users might find the new look and layout disorientating initially, but it didn't take me long to adjust, and having done so IВ would never go back to the now clunkyвЂ‘looking WavelabВ 6. IВ found this really helped me focus on the job in hand, compared with the faux metalwork of WavelabВ 6. WavelabВ 7 has aВ different look to its predecessors, with aВ rather more subdued, yet sophisticated graphic feel. Notice also the four buttons of the Windows Switcher, here superimposed on the spectrum editor display towards the centre of this screenshot. WavelabВ 7 sports aВ new and more sophisticated graphic look that's less distracting on the eye, aВ neat new set of tabbed Tool windows, and flexible Tab Group options to arrange your files on screen.

STEINBERG WAVELAB 6 PC

For the first time ever, Wavelab is now crossвЂ‘platform, enabling Mac users to directly experience what all the fuss has been about for so many years, but there are aВ lot of new features for PC users as well, from aВ new workflow concept, highвЂ‘end restoration tools and 30 VST3 format plugвЂ‘ins to aВ stateвЂ‘ofвЂ‘theвЂ‘art CDвЂ‘burning engine.

It's still largely the work of one man, Philippe Goutier, and each time IВ review aВ new version IВ wonder how on earth he can improve it any further, but with WavelabВ 7 he's done it again, and in aВ big way. I've been using Steinberg's Wavelab for audio editing, mastering, and restoration on an almost daily basis since version 1.6, way back in 1997 when CD burning and realвЂ‘time plugвЂ‘ins were first added, and have watched it grow from aВ good stereo editor, through the excellent sampling, looping and analysis functions of Wavelab 2, the multitrack Montage additions of Wavelab 3 for assembling layered files and compiling albums from individual tracks, the graphic redesign and plugвЂ‘in bundle of Wavelab 4 and the DVDвЂ‘Audio and video montage support of Wavelab 5, to the eyeвЂ‘boggling spectrum display and editing options of WavelabВ 6. Steinberg's Wavelab has spread its wings to become the only truly crossвЂ‘platform stereo editing package - and in the process, it's undergone aВ comprehensive makeover.

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