Steinberg WaveLab Pro 12 Mastering Software Suite - Electronic Delivery

With completely new workflows, invaluable time-saving features, and many improvements, Steinberg WaveLab 12 is the biggest ever release for audio mastering and editing. Whether it is in world-class mastering facilities, music studios, or the home spaces of ambitious hobbyists, support for the ARA standard means WaveLab can now be used seamlessly within all of the most popular DAWs, making it the ideal choice for everyone wanting to push their audio to even greater levels of perfection. And with close to 80 new features and improvements, WaveLab 12’s array of state-of-the-art tools has something for everyone working with music and sound.

AN UNMATCHED EDITING EXPERIENCE

You can now use WaveLab within another DAW, thanks to WaveLab’s powerful Audio Editor now being available as an ARA plug-in. Cubase 13, Nuendo 13, Reaper 7, and Studio One 6.5 have all been fully approved for seamless compatibility.

Seamlessly transfer any audio range, with or without effects, from WaveLab to any other application, without any limits or restrictions. The new drag and drop and copy/paste functions help to radically streamline your workflow across diverse platforms, even when using the ARA extension.

This feature offers optional visual guidance, which aids with snapping audio selections to transient and release points, streamlining the editing process. You can also use the tab key for swift forward and backward navigation across transient points, speeding up your workflow.

You can now visualize audio waveforms in multiple colors, which highlight the spectral content. Fully customizable coloration assists with the instant recognition of specific audio features.

You can now optionally associate all standard editing actions with a crossfade option, enabling smooth transitions throughout the editing process.

You can automatically zoom to the peaks of the waveform’s visible part. As you scroll/zoom horizontally into a quiet section, the waveform expands to fill the vertical zoom.

KEEP YOUR LOUDNESS IN CHECK

Explore the spectral details of your audio files and montages in minute detail with this wide range of visual analysis tools. Serving as an asset to both seasoned sound engineers, budding audio enthusiasts and providing assistance for understanding of the impact of audio processing on loudness. For example, an audio loudness representation can be overlaid onto all waveform views, providing a comprehensive visual analysis of the audio dynamics.

Match the loudness of reference tracks to the Audio Montage output and vice versa, for instantaneous, accurate A/B comparisons between mastered audio and reference sources.

The Audio Montage meta normalizer has been enhanced with three new functions: to set the active clip's loudness and shift others; to peak normalize the predominant clip and shift others; plus to normalize the peak level.

You can now generate personalized reports detailing all aspects of loudness and peak levels within your audio files and montages. Focusing on ensuring your work adheres to specific loudness standards, these reports will prove valuable to both pre-mastering assessments and post-mastering quality assurance.

ENHANCED WORKFLOW AND CREATIVITY

WaveLab 12 introduces Null Test Tracks for the Audio Montage. A Null Track undergoes phase inversion of its signal before mixing with the Audio Montage output. This feature is primarily employed for a technique known as null testing or null difference, a widely adopted audio measurement method for quality assurance, troubleshooting and audio analysis.

Tracks can now be hidden to declutter your screen space, while also freeing up CPU resources for other tracks. As well as enhancing your workflow, this acts as a safeguard, preserving the integrity of your clips by preventing any unintended alterations during editing.

Kickstart your projects with the new Startup Assistant. Featuring a project management section, new templates and a web display panel with a News update area, it streamlines your access to essential resources and updates from the moment you start WaveLab 12.

WaveLab’s project system has been redesigned for ease of use. Enjoy the convenience of backing up your entire project as a consolidated folder or a ZIP archive, containing all your files.

Simplify the organization of your audio montages with a revamped structure, which operates from a central folder housing files and other folders. You can now back up an entire audio montage with all of its media files.

NEW VST 3 EFFECT PLUG-INS

• Black Valve: A very flexible compressor with a vintage tube sound, based on a classic analog device containing a tube pre-amp with compressor
• VoxComp: A compressor designed for processing vocals, which uses a highly adaptive algorithm, making it easy to achieve your desired results
• Raiser: A versatile limiter plug-in that can radically increase the loudness of audio material
• EQ-M5: Characterful vintage tube EQ, especially suited for processing mids, which offers low, mid and high-peak filters
• EQ-P1A: Based on a classic analog equalizer, a unique-sounding vintage tube EQ with a famous low-frequency boost and attenuation. It offers low and high-shelving filters, plus an additional high peak filter
• SampleAlign: Delays one audio channel relative to the other, modifying their relative phase, mid/side channels are supported

ADDITIONAL NEW FEATURES AND IMPROVEMENTS

NAMING SCHEME

There are now new filter options which allow you to generate new names from custom modifications of source names.

WINDOWS: NEW STEINBERG BUILT-IN ASIO DRIVER

If you do not have an ASIO driver on your PC, this driver grants you access to the audio inputs and outputs provided by the Windows audio subsystem. It automatically performs sample rate conversion if the source audio file's sample rate differs from that of your device.

SYNCHRONIZED AUDIO FILE AND MONTAGE NAVIGATION

This allows you to synchronize scrolling and zooming across selected audio files and/or montages, providing a convenient way to visually compare different versions.

FREQUENCY BAND MONITORING

You can apply a filter to isolate a specific frequency band while listening to both the Audio Montage output and the reference track. Choose from five customizable high-quality, linear-phase filters for instant A/B comparison, enabling you to monitor your mastering session's impact.

SPEAKER CONFIGURATIONS WITH PLAYBACK PLUG-INS

There is now the option to attach each of the eight speaker configurations to a playback plug-in chain preset. When a speaker configuration is selected, the associated plug-ins automatically replace any existing playback plug-ins.

PLUG-IN SETTINGS REPLICATOR

Instantly copy the current parameters of a given plug-in to one or more other instances of the same plug-in within the same audio montage.

ENHANCED ALBUM WIZARD

This ISRC generation enhancement provides added options to adjust markers and preserve clip positions.

AUDIO EDITOR DISPLAY OPTIONS

The Spectrogram and Wavelet views can show the audio waveform as a semi-transparent overlay. The Spectrogram setting dialog has been updated.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

• Mac: macOS Sonoma, macOS Monterey, macOS Ventura, Rosetta 2 App (Silicon Mac), Native App (Silicon Mac)
• PC: Windows 11 (version 22H2 or higher), 64 bit Windows 10 (version 22H2 or higher)
• Intel Core i5 Series (4th generation) or AMD Ryzen
• Intel Core i5 (2015 or later ) or Apple Silicon
• 8 GB RAM | 75 GB free HD space
• Graphics card with native Windows 10 support (minimum)
• AMD R or RX series and later or NVIDIA Series 700 and later (recommended)
• Graphic Card with Metal support (Mac only)
• 4GB GPU memory or higher for 4k displays
  
• OS compatible audio hardware
• ASIO compatible audio hardware recommended for low latency performance
• Internet connection is required for download of the installation package, license activation, account setup and personal/product registration