Steinberg WaveLab Pro 12 is a professional all-in-one solution for mastering, restoring, and prepping audio for distribution to the world, as well as forensic extraction, sound design, and recording, for podcasts, audiobooks, interviews, and more. New additions to version 12 include ARA plug-in support, automatic transient markers, synchronized audio file and montage navigation, loudness and visual analysis, loudness matching, a new Startup assistant, an enhanced Album Wizard, and six new audio plug-ins.
With close to 80 new features and improvements, WaveLab Pro 12 is equally effective for mastering engineers, audio archivists, and pro-level content creators. Its advanced and precise editing, easy-to-use modules, and fast workflow make WaveLab Pro 12 the perfect final step for polishing audio before its release. It is compatible with macOS and Windows systems, and it provides improved utilization of multicore CPUs for more efficient processing of audio montages.
Note: This product is an educational discounted version available to qualified students, faculty/staff, and accredited academic institutions only. Proof of current educational status is required. If you are unsure of your eligibility, please contact us prior to purchasing.
NOTE: This product is an educational discounted version available to qualified students, faculty/staff, and accredited academic institutions only. Proof of current educational status is required. If you are unsure of your eligibility, please contact us prior to purchasing.
What's New in Wavelab Pro 12
Unmatched Editing Experience
ARA Plug-In
- You can now use WaveLab within another DAW, thanks to WaveLab’s powerful Audio Editor now being available as an ARA plug-in. Allowing you to directly edit your audio files with WaveLab 12’s advanced editing features from within your favorite DAW: Cubase 13, Nuendo 13, Reaper 7, and Studio One 6.5 have all been fully approved for seamless compatibility.
Rainbow Waveform
- 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.
Automatic Transient Markers
- This feature offers optional visual guidance, which aids with snapping audio selection to transient and release points, streamlining the editing process. You can also use the tab key for swift navigation forwards and backwards across transient points, speeding up your workflow.
No Limits to Audio Exchange with Other Applications
- 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.
Extended Copy-and-Paste Functionality
- You can now optionally associate all standard editing actions with a crossfade option, enabling smooth transitions throughout the editing process.
Automatic Waveform Zoom to Peaks
- 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.
Synchronized Audio File and Montage Navigation
- This provides the option to synchronize scrolling and zooming across selected audio files and/or montages, providing a convenient way to visually compare different versions.
Keep Your Loudness in Check
Loudness Analysis and Reporting
- 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 premastering assessments and postmastering quality assurance.
Visual Analysis
- 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 audio engineers, these visual aids will help you to increase understanding of the impact of audio processing on loudness.
New Loudness Meta Normalizer Functions
- The Audio Montage meta normalizer has been enhanced with three new functions: set the active clip's loudness and shift others; peak normalize the predominant clip and shift others; normalize the peak level.
Loudness Matching
- Match the loudness of reference tracks to the Audio Montage output and vice versa, for instant accurate A/B comparisons between mastered audio and reference sources.
Enhanced Workflow and Productivity
New Startup Assistant
- Kickstart your projects with the new Startup Assistant. Featuring a web display panel, it streamlines your access to essential resources and updates from the moment you start WaveLab 12.
Enhanced project structure
- 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.
Audio Montage asset management
- 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.
Sideline tracks
- 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.
Windows: New Steinberg built-in ASIO driver
- If you do not have an ASIO driver on your PC, this driver provides 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.
Naming scheme
- There are now new filter options, which allow you to generate new names from custom modifications of source names.
Be The Master of Your Masters
New Null Test Track
- 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.
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
- The new album wizard provides ISRC generation enhancements and added options to adjust markers and preserve clip positions.
New Audio Plug-Ins
Black Valve
- A very flexible compressor with a vintage tube sound, based on a classic analog device containing a tube preamp 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-P1A
- Based on a classic analog equalizier, a unique-sounding vintage tube EQ with a famous low frequency boost and attenuation. It offers low and high shelving filter, plus an additional high peak filter.
EQ-M5
- Characterful vintage tube EQ, especially suited for processing mids, which offers low, mid, and high peak filters
SampleAlign
- Delay one audio channel relative to the other, modifying their relative phase. Mid/side channels are supported.
WaveLab Applications
Audio Editor
- WaveLab offers a wide variety of specialized editing functions. Both destructive and nondestructive editing are available, allowing you to choose which is more appropriate for your project. High-resolution spectral editing allows you to precisely target certain frequencies and see unwanted noises, to very neatly remove them.
- Mid/side processing allows you to make very creative enhancements to stereo tracks. You can also edit just the left, just the right, or both channels of a stereo track at once.
- WaveLab includes a large selection of plug-ins for audio processing, you can seamlessly use third-party VST plug-ins and even integrate external effects devices to extend its capabilities. Error detection and correction can be carried out within WaveLab, and all editing functions are carried out via a highly intuitive user interface, with tools arranged in a very clear and meaningful way.
Advanced Audio Analysis
WaveLab features the most advanced audio analysis tools available to the professional sound industry. A comprehensive range of meters—including peak level, loudness errors, phase, spectrum and bits—ensures that you always get an incredibly accurate view of the sound on which you are working. But WaveLab goes much further than showing you what's happening. It features an exceptionally accurate spectrogram view, Wavelet display, and 3D frequency analysis, including global analysis tools to see deep into sounds, helping you to extract and process important information. Law enforcement agencies and accident investigators use WaveLab to forensically analyze audio recordings, highlighting how it benefits a remarkably wide range of users.
Restore Recordings
WaveLab's high-end audio restoration tools are well-known for their ability to improve old and imperfect recordings. It includes the RestoRig restoration plug-in suite, featuring DeClicker, DeNoiser, DeBuzzer, DePopper and DeCrackler, to remove a wide array of unwanted noise and artefacts. Comprehensive spectral editing capabilities let you precisely target and work on very specific parts of the audio spectrum, while WaveLab's huge array of plug-ins, ability to host third-party plug-ins and improved integration of external effect devices help you make improving audio quality fast and intuitive. With error detection and error correction built in, WaveLab is the one-stop answer to restoring and improving all types of audio.
Industry-Leading Batch Processing
- WaveLab has an entire workspace dedicated to batch processing, which can be a huge time-saver for audio professionals. With a vast array of plug-in effects and high-quality processors from which you can select, you can create many different plug-in collections and render many files in different formats in one go.
- You can also create watch folders with predefined processes, formats, plug-ins or any other kind of audio file handling and, without even having to open WaveLab, you can drag files into that folder on your desktop to process them all automatically and in one go.
- WaveLab’s advanced batch processing is the best way to create professional sound libraries, knowing that all files will have the same characteristics, like level, format, pitch, length, and much more.
Metadata Editing
WaveLab features very comprehensive and flexible metadata editing capabilities, which can be utilized regardless of use case, source material or end result. As well as the full range of metadata codes—including ID3 v1 (for MP3 files) and v2, which conform with iTunes standards—lyrics and pictures can be added to the metadata of each file. WaveLab comes with metadata presets that can be edited and used to create your own presets. These can then be saved and applied to audio files, using batch processing to save time.
Sound Design
- WaveLab is a fantastic tool for sound designers, not only because of its industry-leading audio analysis, editing and restoration functions, but because its advanced processing tools make it a great solution for capturing samples and creating loops. These ensure that the audio files are in peak condition before importing them into a sampler or soft synth. Sounds can either be recorded manually or by enabling WaveLab’s sound/silence detection parameters to record automatically.
- WaveLab can also automatically split a number of multi-samples recorded in one go, to create individual files. There are many parameters available for splitting, editing, naming, looping and much more, letting you create samples quickly and easily, without the mechanics of sample creation getting in the way of your creativity.
Recording
- WaveLab supports both stereo and multitrack recording, making it the ideal tool for a wide range of recording situations, including the studio and on location.
- Perfect for podcasts: A major part of audio broadcasting, WaveLab has a dedicated podcasting workspace for recording, organizing episodes, and preparing them for publishing.
- Archiving analog recordings: Many institutions use WaveLab to digitize historic recordings for future generations to enjoy. A high-profile example is the British Library.
- Reading aloud: Publishers and organizations use WaveLab to produce audio versions of many popular books, as well as talking newspapers for the sight impaired.
- Location recording: WaveLab’s advanced tools mean that audio recorded on location can quickly and easily be made ready for any use within one software package.
- Interviews: WaveLab allows interviews to be recorded and then prepared for broadcast or online publishing immediately, without having to use a different system or software.
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