Steinberg Releases WaveLab 3.0
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September 25, 1999
Steinberg Soft-und Hardware GmbH, a leading provider of
professional music and audio technologies, today announced the release of WaveLab
version 3.0, the acclaimed audio editing and processing software with flexible
CD-Burning and realtime PlugIn architecture on the Windows/NT platform. WaveLab
3.0 introduces a new non-destructive editing system called Audio-Montage. The
Audio Montage System offers an intuitive user interface- all information is accessible
at one glance. In the multi-pane tabbed Window, the user finds a complete view
on the required aspects of his montage: the audio clips, the markers, files, CD-Burning
parameters, edit history and more.
All editing is clip based, just by dragging an audio file or a selection in
the montage window creates a new clip on an existing audio lane or a clip on a
new lane. Every clip owns a transparent waveform to display overlapping regions
and the waveforms are reshaped fade, volume or pan envelopes are reshaped. An
entire audio clip is displayed with its waveform as it is moved. The editing is
entirely non-destructive: fades, crossfades and pans happen in realtime with the
new fade system. It utilizes various auto-crossfade modes (e.g. automatic crossfading
simply by moving clips onto one another), graphical design of the fade shapes
(any shape is possible), realtime computed crossfades, mono and stereo crossfades
plus an exclusive waveform recognition technology to smartly adjust the position
of clips to avoid harmonic cancellations in crossfade regions.
Audio Clips can be grouped in hierarchies and the edit history gives the user
maximum control over edits. The entire montage can be played back and processed
through WaveLab's unique realtime Master Section utilizing up to six of any WaveLab,
VST or DirectX compatible PlugIns. The non-destructive Meta-Normalizer helps to
automatically equalize the loudness of all clips in the audio-montage or all tracks
for a CD-Burning session.
Additionally WaveLab 3.0 supports the new VST 2.0 PlugIn Architecture, can
open and save MP3 if the proper drivers are installed and WaveLab 3.0 now offers
the time-stretch and pitch-shift engine from Steinberg Spectral Design's TimeBandit.
Wavelab is available from Steinberg Dealers worldwide for a MSRP of US $599.00.
For more information, visit Steinberg at www.steinberg.net. |
