Steinberg – WaveLab 12 Pro 12.0.30

Mastering is one of the most important parts of the music production process. This is a unique art, and for 25 years WaveLab has been the number one choice for professionals. The universal Steinberg WaveLab audio editor is a powerful tool for professional editing, restoring audio files, editing high-resolution sound recordings. 

The software has a wide range of users – from amateurs to sound recording professionals and is distinguished by the highest sound quality. The editor runs on 64-bit Windows operating systems with standard MIDI controllers such as Steinberg CI, CMC, CC121. In terms of functionality, WaveLab surpasses many audio processing programs. 

The editor provides fast conversion of audio files due to batch processing, creating backup copies and forming playlists, developing original projects for Audio CD and DVD, as well as a unique ability to add sound effects to an audio file directly at the time of its playback. The open architecture of the program allows users to supplement it with new useful functions.

What’s new in WaveLab 12

Steinberg is releasing an updated version of its audio editing software, which includes a host of new features.

It is noted that the main innovation of Wavelab 12 is the ability to launch the audio editor as a plug-in in ARA-compatible DAWs such as Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper or Studio One. In addition, visualization of audio signals in several colors corresponding to the spectral content has appeared, as well as automatic addition of transition markers, which allows you to bind the selection to transition points for accelerated navigation. 

Among other things, there are now improved functions for exchanging audio with other applications with the ability to transfer any audio range from Wavelab to any other software (there are no size or other restrictions).

Among other changes and improvements: all standard editing actions can now be automatically linked to crossfades; automatic waveform scaling to peaks; synchronized navigation through audio files and editing; automatic volume matching of reference tracks to audio editing outputs and vice versa for accurate A/B comparison; a new startup assistant; a new built-in ASIO driver for Windows and much more. 

It is noted that the Pro version of the program also comes with a host of new plug-ins, including: Black Valve and VoxComp compressors, a Raiser limiter and a pair of Pultec EQ emulations.