With nearly 80 new features and improvements, WaveLab 12 is the biggest ever release for audio mastering and editing. It's the top choice for world-class mastering facilities, music studios, and ambitious hobbyists, offering something for everyone working with music and sound in its range of cutting-edge tools.
About WaveLab Elements
WaveLab Elements is a highly cost-effective mastering and editing environment that features a selection of tools derived from WaveLab Pro, focusing on ease of use and quick results. WaveLab Elements caters to the needs of aspiring home musicians, podcasters, new generation engineers, and producers.
Designed for mixing and mastering studios, post-production facilities, sound designers, musicians, journalists, broadcasters, and other audio creatives, WaveLab's vast feature set, customizability, and outstanding audio quality make it the world's most popular professional platform for audio refinement.
WaveLab 12 introduces significant differences and enhancements compared to its previous versions, making it Steinberg's largest audio mastering and editing software release in history.
Key differences between WaveLab 12 and its predecessors include:
- Integration with DAWs via ARA Plugin: WaveLab 12 allows the use of its powerful audio editor as an ARA plugin in popular DAWs like Cubase, Nuendo, Reaper, and Studio One, simplifying work in an integrated DAW environment.
- Multi-color Waveform Drawing: This feature enables visualization of audio waveforms in multiple colors, emphasizing the spectral content of the sound and facilitating the identification and analysis of specific audio features.
- Enhanced Audio Exchange with Other Applications: Enables seamless transfer of audio ranges, with or without effects, from WaveLab to other applications without restrictions.
- Advanced Loudness Analysis and Reporting: New tools allow the generation of personalized reports detailing all aspects of loudness and peak levels in audio files, which are extremely useful for ensuring compliance with loudness standards.
- New VST 3 Plugins: WaveLab 12 introduces new plugins like SampleAlign, BlackValve, VoxComp, Raiser, EQ-P1A, and EQ-M5, expanding the audio tool arsenal.
- Improved Startup Assistant and Project Management: The new Startup Assistant and enhanced project management make organizing and starting audio projects easier.
- Automatic Transient Markers and Improved Editing Features: These new features provide additional visual support and facilitate audio editing, especially in trimming and aligning audio.
- Over 60 New Productivity Features: WaveLab 12 includes over 60 additional features that enhance efficiency throughout the application, significantly surpassing previous versions.
WaveLab 12 is thus more integrated, versatile, and efficient compared to its predecessors, offering users significantly more capabilities and flexibility in the process of mastering, editing, and analyzing audio.
Additional New Features and Improvements:
New naming options, improved integration with Windows ASIO, synchronized navigation of audio files and montages, frequency band monitoring, speaker configurations with playback plugins, plugin settings replicator, enhanced Album Wizard, audio editor display options, expanded mastering tools, and more.
WaveLab 12 provides unparalleled audio editing and mastering capabilities, combining advanced analytical and creative tools with an intuitive user interface, making it a key tool for professionals and audio enthusiasts.
System Requirements
• ® 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)
• Graphics 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 required for download of installation package, license activation, account setup, and personal/product registration