Steinberg Unveils WaveLab 3.0 for Windows
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May 23, 1999
At the 106th AES in Munich, Steinberg unveiled WaveLab version 3.0 - an audio
editing and processing package complete with CD-Burning and real-time PlugIn architecture
for Windows. WaveLab 3.0 introduces a new non-destructive editing system, called
Audio-Montage. The Audio Montage System offers an intuitive user interface
- any information you need is accessible at one glance. In the multi-pane tabbed
Window, the user finds a complete view on the required aspects of his or her montage:
the audio clips, the markers, files, CD-Burning parameters, edit history and more.
All editing is clip based. Just dragging an audio file or making a selection
in the montage window creates a new clip on an existing audio lane, or a clip
on a new lane. Every clip owns a transparent waveform to display overlapping regions
and the waveforms are also reshaped if you apply fade, volume, or pan envelopes.
Moving of clips is presented in a sprite-like way - you always see the entire
clip with its waveform as you move it.
The editing is entirely non-destructive. Fades, crossfades, and pans happen
in realtime with the new fade system. It utilizes various auto-crossfade modes
(eg. automatic crossfading simply by moving clips onto one another), graphical
design of the fade shapes (any shape is possible), real-time computed crossfades,
mono and stereo crossfades plus an exclusive waveform recognition technology to
smartly adjust the position of clips to avoid harmonic cancellations in crossfade
regions.
Audio Clips can be grouped in hierarchies and the edit history gives the user
maximum control over his edits with the ability to undo multiple edits at once.
The entire montage can be played back and processed through WaveLab's real-time
Master Section utilizing up to six of any WaveLab, VST, or DirectX compatible
PlugIns.The non-destructive Meta-Normalizer helps to automatically equalize the
loudness of all clips in the audio-montage or all tracks for a CD-Burning session.
Additionally WaveLab 3.0 supports the new VST 2.0 PlugIn Architecture, can
open and save MP3 files if the proper drivers are installed, and WaveLab 3.0 now
offers the high-quality time-stretch and pitch-shift engine from Steinberg Spectral
Design's TimeBandit.
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