Steinberg WaveLab Pro 11 Audio Editing and Processing Software (Boxed)

Steinberg Wavelab Pro 11 Overview

Steinberg WaveLab Pro 11 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 11 include multichannel interleaved file support up to 22.2 surround, groups and lanes for multitrack/stem workflows, fast and effective one-knob functions for cleaning and enhancing audio, fresh plug-ins, and bountiful podcast features from WaveLab Cast.

A new analyzer sporting a comprehensive range of meters, and loaded with 27 modules, the ability to replace audio in video, and a built-in audio restoration suite make WaveLab Pro 11 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 11 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.

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WaveLab Pro requires a Steinberg USB e-Licenser (included) for authorization and operation of the software.

New to Pro 11

Extended Multichannel Interleaved Support

WaveLab Pro 11 introduces extended support for multichannel interleaved files and for the first time, multichannel interleaved editing in the Audio Editor. Supporting up to 22.2 surround layouts of WAV files (including Ambisonics files for pre-authoring purposes), you can open, edit, and save multichannel files like any other set of mono/stereo files. With comprehensive controls to make precise editing easier, you can work on selected channels with external editors. The detailed new selection options include highly flexible frequency-domain selection in the Spectrum Editor. In the Audio Montage, you can automatically split multichannel audio files into mono or stereo clusters for faster file import, allowing you to use plug-ins to process channel clusters independently of one another.

Track Groups for Multitrack and Stem Workflows

Track Groups comprise audio tracks, which are routed to a group bus before the signal continues through the Montage output and Master sections. This provides an additional summing stage with effect plug-ins, gain, and pan controls. Track Groups are especially useful for stem mastering and alongside Track Lanes, they are another way to apply a common track group effect chain to stem mastering projects.

Track Groups can be created by selecting tracks from a corresponding Group Channel. Using the Track Group Editor, tracks and track groups can be named/renamed, have colors assigned, and moved by drag and drop.

Track Lanes for Multitrack and Stem Workflows

The Track Lanes feature can divide an audio track into eight sub lanes, each lane hosting audio clips, a facility especially useful when working with mix stems inside the Montage. As well as clip effects, track effects can be applied to all clips, providing a final processing chain for all stems on the track. Track Lanes can also be used for sound design tasks like assembling, editing, and processing sound effects from layered clips. Each Track Lane features comprehensive controls for selection, solo/mute, fold/unfold, converting lanes to tracks, merging tracks into lanes, and more.

Parameter Automation with Clip Envelopes

You can now use clip envelopes to automate the parameters of VST3 plug-ins. Along with the volume, pan, and effect wet/dry parameters, clip envelopes are managed from the new Automation Envelope panel in the Inspector window. Envelopes can be assigned to parameters by right-clicking on the parameter, single envelope points can be text edited, envelopes can be turned on/off, and their visibility can be easily managed individually or globally.

SuperVision Analyzer

As well as the WaveLab analysis meter, WaveLab Pro 11 features a new professional analysis tool, SuperVision. SuperVision is a fully customizable, multi-meter audio analyzer, with 27 different modules that can be applied in up to nine module slots for level, spectral, phase, and waveform analysis. It allows the creation of a fully customized layout for a supremely accurate visual picture of any audio project. Multiple instances can be opened to monitor the audio signal at different stages.

Advanced Sound Manipulation

A comprehensive array of eight new VST3 plug-ins have been added to WaveLab Pro 11, delivering even greater possibilities for the most surgically precise sound shaping. The tools include a professional DeReverb, LIN Pro dithering, Frequency 2 8-band EQ, Squasher 3-band compressor, Imager, Quadrafuzz v2 multiband distortion, MixConvert V6 surround-to-stereo monitoring module, and VST AmbiDecoder.

Replacing Audio in Video

In WaveLab Pro 11, part or all the audio of a video file can be replaced with the audio from another track. The original audio can also be refined and replaced with an edited version without changing the video quality. Importing, editing, and rendering are straightforward to use.

Podcast Host Service Support

If you create podcasts or content for social media, WaveLab Pro is an ideal solution to ensure your video has the best sound. WaveLab Pro 11 comes with the same podcast features as the dedicated WaveLab Cast. Features include the direct upload of podcasts to five popular podcast hosts: Buzzsprout, Castro, PodBean, SoundCloud, and Spreaker.

Audio Ducking

WaveLab 11 includes simplified ducking, allowing one audio track to control the volume of a different one. The ducking controls on an Audio Montage track allow one or more modulator tracks to control the ducked track. Straightforward parameters include Voice Threshold (triggers the Ducker), Music Attenuation (the level reduction on the ducked track), fade out/in times/profiles, and a time setting for how long the volume is reduced on the ducked track.

Clean and Enhance Sections

The Track Inspector adds two new sections with specialized channel strips for real-time audio processing, radically simplifying the enhancement of audio tracks with straightforward one-knob controls. Alongside the familiar Insert Effects, Gain, and Pan sections, the new Clean and Enhance sections provide quick and easy ways of cleaning up and improving the quality of audio recordings.

Audio Montage Performance Boost

WaveLab Pro now supports multicore processing for audio montages, increasing the processing performance of montages with multiple tracks, clips, and effects. This is especially noticeable when working with multiple tracks and/or overlapping clips for instance when mastering stems. It is now also possible to suspend the processing of track plug-ins if their input signal is detected as silent, conserving CPU resources.

Workflow, Performance, and Editing Improvements

WaveLab Pro 11 comes with a new start-up assistant, a revised external FX plug-in window, VST3 plug-in improvements, batch processor enhancements, custom names for audio ports, multichannel file playback on stereo speakers, and much more.

A World of Applications

Premium Audio Editor

WaveLab Pro 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, so you can neatly remove them.

Mid-side processing allows you to make creative and effective enhancements to stereo tracks. You can edit the just the left, just the right, or both channels of a stereo track at once.

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 meaningfu