WaveLab 9.5 picks up from where WaveLab 9 left off in several ways. First of all, a new Spectrogram has been provided, with customizable display settings to help you find and edit the most problematic parts of the audio spectrum. Grace Period Update to WaveLab Pro 9.5 and WaveLab Elements 9.5. Customers activating an older version of WaveLab or WaveLab Elements (from version 7), whereas a newer version is already available, receive from Steinberg a so-called free Grace Period update to activate the current version available to that time. WaveLab Pro 9.5 is the first significant update of the application since March 2016, when version 9.0—which featured a completely redesigned user interface—was released. The latest version provides a mix of new and improved functionality, with the biggest enhancements coming in the areas of spectral editing and audio restoration.

Jan 31, 2018 WaveLab Pro 9.5 is the first significant update of the application since March 2016, when version 9.0—which featured a completely redesigned user interface—was released. The latest version provides a mix of new and improved functionality, with the biggest enhancements coming in the areas of spectral editing and audio restoration.

Wavelab Pro and Wavelab Elements just got better with their latest incarnations, both now at version 9.5. Let’s see what’s new in Steinberg’s masterful audio tools.

by Vincenzo Bellanova, July 2018

New versions of Steinberg’s professional audio editors are here, with great new features that further raise the level of these already impressive software sound utilities.

King of fighter wing 1.8 free download for pc full. In this review we will have a tour of the main new features introduced in the 9.5 versions, if you wish to learn more on how Wavelab works, you can check these earlier reviews of WaveLab 8.5 here and Wavelab 9 here.

Wavelab Pro 9.5 and Wavelab Elements are most certainly products that everyone should consider, whether you’re making music, organizing samples, are a mastering engineer or a sound designer. They are audio editors and mastering suites, so their features will move in two directions: morphing, cutting, processing, organizing audio files, or mastering (in fact, almost all of the plugins in the Master Rig have been updated with new features).

So many things are to be found in the suite – and wait, don’t forget about the batch processing options. You can drag entire folders into Wavelab and simply apply fades, or normalize levels, or add one or more effects, to a whole list of files, which can then be exported into a separate folder so you won’t lose your originals. And that is just one of Wavelab’s amazing features. Wavelab (either version) now features a 64-bit audio engine, just like Cubase, that uses double precision computation for increased accuracy and detail from summing, mixing and effects. So there is the possibility of a significant improvement when processing files with this new powerful engine. There’s more: Wavelab now supports High DPI, which means that the software is fully supported by the modern ultra-high resolution displays.

While the Pro version has a list price of €559.00 EUR, and an upgrade price of €59.99 EUR, Elements, whose features are limited compared to its full-featured sibling (but is still absolutely capable of a wide variety of tasks), is €99.00 EUR. Please note that a Steinberg eLicenser dongle, sold separately, is required to activate Pro, but software authorization (i.e., no dongle) can be used with Elements.

Spectrum Editor, Wavelet Display and Audio Inpainting

The new Spectrum Editor stands out. The redesigned Spectrogram now allows more options to customize the display, such as color scale adjustments, frequency span adjustments, and a menu with new frequency scales (these might be familiar for iZotope RX users). In fact these new features allow you to focus more precisely on some frequencies, and thus, process and edit more comfortably.

The wavelet display is a new feature that we can think of as a superior way to visualize and analyze audio material, since the Spectrogram has a fixed length in the window, and the wavelet displays a higher resolution in the time domain of the high frequencies, and a higher resolution in the frequency domain of the low end.

New visualization options are complemented by new tools, enhancing the possibilities of spectral editing in Wavelab 9.5. We now have new selection tools, like the invert selection tool for the situation in which we want to select everything except the region we intend to preserve. Then there’s the amazing Source at Cursor capability, which if we removed some audio material, will find and copy a region from another part of the file to fill the gap we left. This tool is especially good when we need to remove or restore files that processors like De Buzzer or De Noiser can’t fix. It is not only intelligent, but also very precise. In the Processing Algorithm dropdown menu, we can also notice a Transcode Picture function, which is very useful for watermarking audio by “printing” an image upon the spectrogram – a more discreet, and, again, intelligent solution.

The Audio Inpainting feature, allows us to analyze and replace the content based on other regions of the same file. We can simultaneously select a region, analyze and automatically replace it. We will have controls on the number of bands in order to adjust the area of analysis according to the type of audio material. It is particularly helpful and will save a lot of time when restoring audio dropouts or replacing accidents, noises, bleeds or mistakes with only a few clicks.

Note that the Wavelet display, Spectrum editor and Audio Inpainting are available only in the Pro version.

New Error Correction Tab and Restore Rig

The tools for correcting clicks and errors in the audio files, have now a dedicated ribbon. All of the tools for both detecting and correcting errors are clearly organized, as the other ribbons are well designed, so it is very easy to find them. Wavelab will not only check the files, but also will place a marker and will give us information on the type of error encountered. Now we have some ready-to-use presets for detecting errors and for correcting them more precisely with the same concept we just discussed, Audio Inpainting. The surrounding regions will be scanned in order to find similar material and replace the clicks we might find without introducing any unwanted unpleasantness. The Error Correction Tab is an exclusive of the Pro version.

But there’s something else that really enhances the usefulness of Wavelab: the Restore Rig, not just limited to Pro. The software now features a set of tools for further audio restoration. It replaces the Sonnox restoration suite, with the new DeNoiser, DeBuzzer and Declicker, which can control, attenuate and eliminate pops, clicks and crackles (or should that be “remove snap, crackle and pop”? [SMILEY]). If we consider these in addition to the spectral editing functions, we can see that Wavelab is filling the audio repair field with intuitive and effective tools. The algorithms of the various processors work really well, and it is quite easy to know what is happening because we can choose to listen to the output noise only. Furthermore, the meters on each of the modules provide a visual feedback on the amount of noise reduction, which in turn can give us an idea of how much processing is going on. These tools can be pushed too far resulting in artifacts and the like, but the instrumentation helps keep that sort of thing in check.

Plug-Ins

A lot of plugins have been updated, not only with larger interfaces and meters, but with new functionality as well. The Vintage Compressor now has a Mix control, so we can layer compressed (sometimes heavily compressed) and dry audio to advantage – a technique is widely referred to as parallel compression.

The Maximizer features a new limiting algorithm, Modern, for even more loudness. Another interesting capability is the Character control, which bring in more compression on the high frequencies, allowing less saturation for the low-end.

Thanks to the new interface, Autopan now allows to draw curves more freely, simply moving the dots on the screen. The EQ in the Master Rig now features a LIN button, which engages the linear phase mode for each of the bands, great feature to give even more