What can Wavelab do?

[4ever]

Now that I know Wavelab is a popular tool for mastering I'm curious as to what it can do. $400 is quite an investment that I didn't foresee, a short list of what you can do with that software would be very helpful. I assume volume maximizer would be in it...Online music stores are not very helpful. They just display the picture and say it's a mastering tool.

'It's like sound forge' or 'CoolEdit Pro' doesn't help because I don't know none of these.

 

[Cudmasters Los]

I'd like to jump in on this too. I feel the same way, except I have Soundforge, which I love, but what does the Wave Lab do that Soundforge doesn't, and also vice-versa?

To answer " what is soudforge", it is a program that it used to edit a song. It pretty much runs with all programs, all the ones I use anyways. If you need to do something to a track that your current software can't do, you could export it into soundforge, make changes, and then import back into your program. Or just export your final song into the program and master. It's not the most expensive program in the world, but it will do for people like me that don't have high budgets!!!

 

[Paul881]

SoundOn Sound magazine had a review in May 2002 of the software and I quote:
"As an all-round package for multitrack audio editing, mastering and CD burning, Steinberg's Wavelab leads the field."
Sonar is a great program for recording and mixing, but for mastering and CD burning, Wavelab it is a much neater tool to use. Its hard to explain exactly why it is better than Sonar at Mastering until you come to use it. It is easy to use, concentrates all your CPU power to the job in hand, allows you to apply multi fx to your tracks and wraps DXI and VST tools/fx/instruments together neatly. You can even open it up in Sonar.
I have used Soundforge but prefer to use wavelab. But if I had soundforge, I wouldn't see the sense in having wavelab as well.

I guess at the end of the day, the arguement about mastering in Sonar vs Wavelab is like this: you can dance in rubber boots (galloshes) but it is much easier and more elegant in proper dance shoes. I hope this helps?

 

[SLuiCe]

You can even open it up in Sonar.

Yeah this is nice, but I so far I think you have to re-open Sonar to load the new WAVELAB edits.

I have used Soundforge but prefer to use wavelab. But if I had soundforge, I wouldn't see the sense in having wavelab as well.
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I'd agree there too. If you have SF, save the 400 bucks. But I definitely prefer Wavelab.

 

[Wiz C]

Wavelab is great

well if you have 3.0 0r the new 4.0 your doing good,.....wavelab can do alot like:
rip cds
make mp3s with there copyright info.
use dx and vst plugins 5 at a time
4.0 burns cds
cut, copy n paste with out any waiting time
the only problem is in the plugin list.....if you have alot of em they all wont show up so you have to go to the plugin manager to uncheck some plugins you dont use alot so they wont show ..and just keep the main ones you use the most checked .