Name: WaveLab
Rating: 9 (2 reviews)
Author: Steinberg Media Technologies

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Steinberg Media Technologies headquartered in Hamburg offers WaveLab, an audio editing application.

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WaveLab 2020-02-24 19:10:37

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Audio Editing Software

I first used WaveLab back when I was going to college for audio engineering. I ended up becoming a software developer, but I have still found a use for WaveLab over the years for various projects. When I worked at Amazon.com, I used WaveLab to edit voice clips for an automated phone system. At Bluefire Productions, I use WaveLab whenever the need for audio editing comes up, particularly when I need a realtime FX chain (e.g., compressor, EQ, reverb). That need does not arise frequently, but when it does, I can quickly get whatever audio-related tasks done that we need, whether it's editing customer development interviews or audio clips for a rich-media EPUB3 interactive ebook.

Realtime FX Chain - This is the big one for me. I always had both WaveLab and Sound Forge (along with some other audio editing programs, and using Pro Tools at school). Of the two, I preferred Sound Forge for its user interface and hotkeys, but I preferred WaveLab for its realtime FX. The ability to easily chain FX together and tweak them on the fly while the audio is playing is enormous for me.
Speed - Quite simply, saving a huge file in WaveLab is orders of magnitude faster than in Sound Forge. To this day, I don't know why that is, but it's just faster. Opening and saving files is a breeze in WaveLab, while in some other audio editing programs, it can take 30 seconds or a minute for a large file.

User Interface and Hotkeys - I've always struggled with the UI in WaveLab, and even after all these years, I am just much faster in Sound Forge. I used to have a job as an audio editor, where I edited hundreds of hours of interviews. By using the "Mark" feature, I could easily cut out silence, "ums" and "ahs," and other audio artifacts in Sound Forge. I struggled to do the same in WaveLab but was never able to work even a fraction as quickly.
Built-In Audio Processing - I much prefer Sound Forge's built-in audio tools like time-stretching, normalization, compression, and so on. WaveLab has many of the same tools, but I have not found them to be as easy to use, and in some cases, nonexistent (relying instead on a VST plugin).

Positive Impact - Ability to rapidly edit audio for EPUB3 ebooks and interviews.
Positive Impact - Being able to hear in realtime how audio effects chains will sound, and to save commonly-used effects chains.

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WaveLab

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What is WaveLab?