Steinberg’s audio editors for the professional and the home studio have new versions, both of them sporting impressive new features which merit your attention. By David Baer, Jan. 2017 Wavelab Recap In this review we will look at the new releases of Steinberg’s high-end audio editor software, Wavelab Pro, and the scaled-down and much more economically-priced “lite” version, Wavelab Elements. For brevity, hereafter “Wavelab” will be used to denote “Wavelab Pro” and “Elements” to denote “Wavelab Elements”. I reviewed Wavelab and Elements, in our Jan.

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At that time Wavelab was at version 8.5 and Elements at version 8. All the functionality present in those versions is still with us and I’m going to focus primarily on new features here. Those wishing to learn of what’s not new may read the earlier review here: Most of you reading this review will already own at least one fairly capable DAW which no doubt offers some serious audio editing capabilities. So why would you need more?

The answer is that audio editing software has a slightly different focus than a DAW. There is certainly some overlap in DAWs and audio editors, but an audio editor can do some essential tasks much more efficiently than a DAW, and in some cases can do things impossible in a DAW, however high-end that DAW might be. Any studio, even a modest small studio, will benefit considerably from having both a great DAW and a capable audio editor. Voennaya psihologiya maklakov. Wavelab and Elements certainly qualify as “capable”.

Wavelab, with its list price of $579 USD, will be too expensive for the typical small-studio budget, but Elements price of $99 USD certainly is not. Upgrades from the previous versions are $99 USD and $25 USD respectively. I’m confident that owners of those versions will consider an upgrade to be money very well spent. As with the previous versions, Wavelab requires an eLicenser dongle while Elements requires only a software authorization solution. Although the previous version of Wavelab had many features needed in a professional operation, Elements was so fully-featured that a small-studio operation would find it completely satisfactory for most activities. As we’ll see, I think that Steinberg has somewhat gotten away from that generous allocation of goodies.

Wavelab 9 now has some features that would be seriously useful to the small-studio engineer. Too bad Elements used to be such an easy choice in terms of costs/benefits. For a Better User Experience Both Wavelab and Elements continue the tradition of bringing you a great way of visualizing the audio upon which you’re working.