![]() ![]() Steinberg WaveLab Elements 11 Mastering Software is the right choice for aspiring musicians and sound designers who want to improve their mixes quickly and get great results. WaveLab Elements includes a wide range of easy-to-use tools that help you create stunning audio masters in no time. WaveLab Elements also includes the entire palette of functions from the dedicated WaveLab Cast app for creating podcasts and audio for vlogs. WaveLab Elements automatically creates crossfades, letting you arrange, cut, fade, and blend music and voices exactly to your taste. It comes with a range of easy-to-use modules, combined in a handy channel strip, which help you to improve the sound of your master. The “single knob” concept means that you hear the results of your sound manipulation immediately, in real time. EQ your music, enhance speech with the voice exciter and give the entire mix more punch using the compressor module - you need no in-depth knowledge of audio technology to create great results! If you want to explore more possibilities, WaveLab Elements’ Master Section includes more than 20 additional VST plug-ins, among them the mighty MasterRig suite, derived from WaveLab Pro. In WaveLab Elements, MasterRig comprises five studio-grade modules, including Limiter, EQ, Compressor, Saturator and Imager, offering a great choice of tools to improve the sound of your recordings with punch, saturation and more presence.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. 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. At that time Wavelab was at version 8.5 and Elements at version 8. Those wishing to learn of what’s not new may read the earlier review here: All the functionality present in those versions is still with us and I’m going to focus primarily on new features 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. 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. STEINBERG WAVELAB ELEMENTS 9 REVIEW UPGRADE STEINBERG WAVELAB ELEMENTS 9 REVIEW SOFTWAREĪs with the previous versions, Wavelab requires an eLicenser dongle while Elements requires only a software authorization solution.Īlthough 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.īoth Wavelab and Elements continue the tradition of bringing you a great way of visualizing the audio upon which you’re working. The three example metering windows to the right give you an idea of what can be expected. STEINBERG WAVELAB ELEMENTS 9 REVIEW WINDOWS STEINBERG WAVELAB ELEMENTS 9 REVIEW WINDOWS.STEINBERG WAVELAB ELEMENTS 9 REVIEW SOFTWARE.STEINBERG WAVELAB ELEMENTS 9 REVIEW UPGRADE.
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