Audio Montage Workspace

The Audio Montage Workspace is the heart of the non-destructive editing processes in WaveLab. All editing tasks and actions are either processed in real-time or rendered into the audio material. The powerful Audio Montage Workspace supports not only several audio tracks each with up to 8 channels. Audio files in the Audio Montage are shown as so-called clips. Each clip is actually merely a window on either a part or the entire length of an audio file. The selection can be enlarged, reduced or just moved over the audio material (known as sliding).

WaveLab 7 supports the editing of clips over several tracks, making editing of linked tracks in a multi-channel project fast and efficient. By pressing the ALT key, changes made to a clip are also made to every selected clip. Any fades already set remain unaffected; Volume and Pan settings also remain unchanged. A range of grouping functions give a clear overview of the project at all times.

Advanced Crossfades

Multi-channel editing

Audio Restoration

High End Tools for Audio Restoration

Removing artifacts from old records or eliminating unwanted noise within the audio material does not mean investing in separate tools. WaveLab 7 brings along a high class restoration suite made by the famed plug-in specialists at Sonnox, comprising the popular DeNoiser, DeBuzzer and DeClicker plug-ins. Using these powerful tools allows you to polish your audio material with exceptional audio quality.

Restoration with the Spectrum Editor

The Spectrum Editor is an immensely powerful new tool for restoration and editing of an audio file’s frequency information. The precision linear phase filters allow editing of even microscopically narrow frequency bands.

The Spectrum Editor displays the audio material as a sonogram that shows the changing intensities of the frequencies over time in different colors and shades. The Spectrum Editor offers two different editing modes — Surgical processing and Master Section processing.

Surgical Processing
The Surgical processing mode offers three filter types that can be used in six different ways for a variety of tasks. Using the High Pass, Low Pass or Band Pass filters, a certain frequency area in the sonogram can be dampened, faded in or out or even “wiped over” with the Dispersion function. The dampening and aggressiveness of the filters is also user-definable.

Master Section Processing

This mode allows the processing of the selected frequency area using the Master Section plug-ins, including dithering and noise-shaping algorithms. With this powerful editing tool, a defined frequency area can, for example, be sent through the Sonnox DeClicker or other restoration plug-in. Other uses include complete dynamics control over user-defined frequency bands.

Another editing process provided by the Spectrum Editor is the copying of audio material from one “place” to another in the sonogram view. Using the Source/ Destination functions a suitable area can be isolated very quickly and copied to several different locations. The area that is to be replaced is defined by stretching a rectangle, and the selected area can be moved and adjusted in size quickly and easily. Editing can be performed independent of the audio channel or simultaneously on both channels of a stereo file.

Podcasting

This internet standard is fully supported by WaveLab 7. Simple and intuitive user interface allows to create basic or complex Podcasts from A to Z, without ever quitting WaveLab. The perfect integration in the WaveLab audio recording and editing environment makes it a unique solution on the market.

WaveLab 7 supports the complete podcast standard RSS 2.0 specification. Not only audio files but also video and PDF files can be integrated. Pictures are automatically scaled to the right size. The integrated FTP client transfers the podcast quickly and efficiently over to the server without stopping work on audio files in WaveLab 7. Podcast descriptions can be imported as an HTML file, locally saved picture files are automatically saved with the audio onto the server when a podcast is published. To help create new episodes of the podcast even faster, WaveLab 6.1 includes user-definable templates. WaveLab 6.1 can also create podcasts directly for iTunes.

Workflow

Batch processing
WaveLab 7 offers a range of powerful batch processing tools, applying a huge range of editing processes and renaming options to large numbers of with a single command.

Remote controller integration
WaveLab offers tactile access to WaveLab functionality through support for MIDI remote controllers. Every incoming MIDI message received from a remote controller can be assigned to a command in WaveLab 7, offering control over a range of aspects of the WaveLab functionality. Setting up a command is astoundingly simple: the command is selected in the Key Commands Editor, while the desired MIDI command is activated on the control surface. All assigned commands can be saved as a file, allowing different controllers to be selected.

Effects

Clip-based effects and plug-in chains

Loudness-compensated bypassing of plug-ins

External effect hardware integration