Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6.1

Audio Editing and Mastering Suite

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Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6.1 combines state-of-the-art audio technology from the award-winning Steinberg WaveLab 6 with a streamlined workflow and a full complement of editing and mastering features targeted at project studios and aspiring musicians.

Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6.1
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It includes the same sample accurate 32-bit audio engine and a wide range of advanced tools with the pristine audio quality originally engineered for top mastering and editing professionals in WaveLab 6.1. Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6.1 introduces an Internet Publishing Toolkit supporting the full RSS 2.0 podcasting standard and provides many more next-generation features and capabilities to make it the world’s best editing and mastering solution in its price range.

Key Features:

• Sample accurate audio editor with crystal clear audio processing at up to 192 kHz and 32 bit floating point resolution
  
  
• Stereo and multi-channel non-destructive editing with versatile clip grouping over multiple lanes
  
  
• Video track for sample accurate alignment of audio and video
  
  
• Powerful real-time engine with integration of clip-based, track-based and global effect plug-ins
  
  
• Superior audio processors including DIRAC time stretch and pitch shift algorithms
  
  
• State-of-the-art audio plug-ins for EQ, Resampling, Declicking, Denoising and many more
  
  
• Redbook compatible PQ editing including Audio-in-Pause, CD-Text and track sheet export
  
  
• Internet Publishing Toolkit - supports full RSS 2.0 podcasting standard
  
  
• Extended audio file handling and manipulation system including files sizes > 2 GB
  
  
• Sonogram-style Spectrum View for quick overview of the frequency structure of the audio file with simultaneous aligned use of Wave- and Spectrum View
  
  
• Extremely versatile batch processing and scripting features
  
  
  

New features in Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6.1

Podcasting

The growing internet standard of podcasting is now fully supported by WaveLab Studio 6.1. A simple and intuitive user interface allows you to create and publish basic or complex podcasts without quitting WaveLab. The perfect integration of the new Internet Publishing Toolkit in WaveLab's audio recording and editing environment makes it a unique solution on the market. WaveLab Studio 6.1 supports the complete podcast standard RSS 2.0 specification. In addition to audio files, video and PDF files can also be integrated, with pictures being automatically scaled to the right size.

Built-in Internet Publishing Toolkit - Full RSS 2.0 Podcasting Specification

The integrated FTP client in WaveLab Studio 6.1 transfers podcasts quickly and efficiently to the server, whilst you can continue working on other audio files. Podcast descriptions can be imported as an HTML file and locally saved picture files are automatically saved with the audio onto the server when a podcast is published. To help create new episodes of the podcast even faster, WaveLab Studio 6.1 includes user-definable templates. WaveLab Studio 6.1 can also create podcasts directly for iTunes.

Registered users of WaveLab Studio version 6.0 can download an update to version 6.1 here...

WaveLab Studio 6 In Detail

Environment

Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6 offers you a very flexible environment with user customisable settings for appearance and window control. Customised window layouts can be saved and restored. For quick access to often-used functions and parameters, WaveLab Studio 6 offers a vast set of key commands. The main window can be divided in two independent panes for overview and editing with spectrum and waveform view. Upper and lower panes can be synchronized. The mouse wheel can be used to control the Master Section faders of for scrolling the time line.

File Management

Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6 includes a range of features to make file handling quick and efficient. Read and write processes for audio files are extraordinarily efficient, while support for w64 and RIFF 64 formats mean that there are practically no limitations on file size that can be handled by WaveLab Studio 6. A favourites list gives lightning fast access to files that are used most often. The often arduous task of renaming multiple files at once is handled by the handy batch processing functions, including file name prefixes and suffixes.

Audio Montage - Non-destructive Editing

Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6 - Audio Montage
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The Audio Montage is the heart of the non-destructive, real-time editing processes in Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6. All editing tasks and actions are either processed in real-time or rendered into the audio material.

Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6 - Video Track
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The powerful Audio Montage environment supports not only several audio tracks but also a video track for audio-to-video editing.

Flexible Clip Handling

Audio files in the Audio Montage are shown as so-called clips. Each clip is actually merely a window on either a part or the entire length of an audio file. The selection can be enlarged, reduced or just moved over the audio material (known as sliding). The advanced Crossfade handling in the Audio Montage includes freely movable crossfade handles and symmetric resizing to come up with the perfect crossfade. Grouping of clips in a montage provides an easy way to edit fades for multiple clips across tracks.

Montage Processing

In addition to the effect processing over the entire montage in the Master Section described below, the Audio Montage offers flexible processing based on tracks or clips. Up to 2 VST or DirectX effect plug-ins can be applied on both tracks and clips, producing an extremely flexible processing matrix. Up to 6 plug-ins can be used globally on any Montage. And because only clips that are actually being played are process with the corresponding plug-ins, the plug-in processing also makes highly efficient use of the computer’s CPU resources.

Audio Analysis

Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6 - 3D Frequency Analysis
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Detailed information about the audio material and its properties is absolutely essential to almost any audio editing and mastering task. Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6 offers a huge range of analysis tools displaying in crystal clarity almost any conceivable aspect of the audio material.

Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6 - Metering Options
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A huge set of resizable displays include level and phase information, spectral analysis, a bit meter, oscilloscope and waveform scope. Waveform displays offer sample-accurate display of audio material, while the global analysis tools provide information on peaks, loudness, pitch and clipping, and draw the editor’s attention to glitches and other aberrations.

Master Section

The Master Section offers important monitoring functions like the level meter, global bypass switch, Mono button and Dropout indicator. 6 slots for VST and DirectX plug-ins are also available in the Master Section, as are top-grade dithering and noise shaping algorithms, such as Apogee’s UV22. Plug-in presets allow easy recalling of your favourite combinations of plug-ins and settings, while the Render function, the finished master is only one click away.

Plug-ins

Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6 - Master Section and Plug-ins
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Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6 includes a complete suite of sophisticated audio plug-ins such as hi-end EQ, Multiband Compressor, Dynamics and Reverb. The DeNoiser and DeClicker plug-ins are excellent realtime tools for audio restauration while Crystal Resampler is professional sample rate converter providing exceptional transparency and preservation of the frequency content up to 192 kHz.

Steinberg WaveLab Studio 6.1 - Minimum System Requirements

The minimum system requirements state the minimal specification your computer must have to be able to use the software. A more powerful system may be required for certain tasks or larger projects.

• Windows XP or Windows Vista (32-bit only)
• Intel / AMD Processor 800 MHz minimum
• 256 MB RAM
• 80 MB of free disk space
• CD or DVD drive required for installation
• Windows MME compatible audio hardware is required
• USB port required for Steinberg Key (copy protection device)*
• Internet connection required for license activation

*The required Steinberg Key (USB copy protection device) is included in the full retail version only. When updating from another WaveLab version the Steinberg Key must be purchased separately. Only one Steinberg Key is required for all Steinberg products.