The smaller edition, WaveLab Elements, is used by many musicians, radio journalists and podcasters. And with its 11th version, WaveLab Elements has received a further boost with its feature set, inheriting advanced plug-ins from the Pro edition, such as the DeEsser, Expander and PingPong Delay, and the extra metering modules as well as including the complete set of functions from WaveLab Cast to create podcasts and audio for vlogs.
In turn, WaveLab Pro now offers extended support for multichannel interleaved audio files for opening, editing and saving up to 22.2 and Ambisonics surround sound formats, with easier editing and detailed selection options. Newly available in the Pro edition, WaveLab now includes track groups for multitrack/stems workflows, allowing for audio tracks to be routed to a group bus with effects plug-ins, gain and pan controls, before the montage output and master sections. Another great addition for stem mastering is that track lanes can now divide an audio track into eight sub lanes for working with mix stems inside an audio montage and assembling, editing and processing sound effects from layered clips.
WaveLab Pro now provides parameter automation with clip envelopes to automate the parameters of VST 3 plug-ins. With the new Automation Panel, clip envelopes as well as volume, panning and effect parameters are easily managed. Alongside its analysis meter, WaveLab Pro 11 now features the SuperVision analyzer, offering fully customizable, multi-metering audio analysis, with 17 different modules applied in up to nine module slots.
WaveLab Pro 11 comes with brand-new VST 3 effects plug-ins including Frequency 2, Squasher, Imager, Quadrafuzz v2, MixConvert V6 and VST AmbiDecoder. Then there’s DeReverb, a completely new plug-in exclusively available in WaveLab and designed to remove the reverb from the input signal in real time. Another highlight is the new LINpro dithering plug-in developed by the mastering specialists at MAAT Incorporated.
The Track Inspector comes with two new sections, providing specialized channel strips for real-time audio processing and radically simplifying the enhancement of audio tracks with straightforward “one knob” controls. Alongside the familiar Insert Effects and Gain and Pan sections, the new Clean and Enhance sections provide very quick and easy ways of cleaning up and improving the quality of audio recordings.
Another focus in WaveLab 11 (both Pro and Elements) was put on improving its video capabilities, now replacing audio in video for straightforward replacement of parts or all the audio of a video file with the audio from another track, without changing the video quality.
WaveLab 11 (both Pro and Elements) also facilitates connecting directly with popular podcast directories, allowing users to upload content from within WaveLab to Spreaker, Podbean, Soundcloud, Buzzsprout and Castos.
WaveLab 11 comes with more than 20 additional new features and enhancements, offering a broad range of new possibilities and thus extending the acclaimed feature set even further. Among many more enhancements, the improved multi-core processing and improved VST plug-in handling help when processing multiple tracks, clips, and effects, while the external FX plug-in window was improved with level meters for the input and output gain sections to avoid audio clipping.
The WaveLab Pro 11 and WaveLab Elements 11 full retail versions are available from resellers and through the Steinberg Online Shop. The suggested retail price for WaveLab Pro 11 is 499 euros or 499.99 US dollars; the download version is 479 euros or 479.99 US dollars. The suggested retail price for WaveLab Elements 11 is 129 euros or 129.99 US dollars.
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