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Steinberg WaveLab Essential

Windows Audio Editing/CD Burning Software with Effects and VST/DirectX Support - PC
Item ID: WaveLabEss
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Steinberg WaveLab Essential
Steinberg WaveLab Essential

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Steinberg's WaveLab Essential is digital audio editing software designed especially for users working in project studios. Based on WaveLab 4.0 technology, WaveLab Essential offers the most important digital audio editing features from its big brother at an attractive "newcomer" price.

Steinberg WaveLab Essential at a Glance:
  • Easy-to-use audio editor for project studios
  • Solves audio editing needs for a wide variety of users
  • Built-in effects processor and VST/DirectX plug-in support
  • Burn CDs directly from WaveLab

Easy-to-use audio editor for project studios
Steinberg's WaveLab is one of the most powerful audio editing applications in the business. Now you can have access to the most important features of WaveLab with WaveLab Essential, An affordable, easy-to-use chip off the old block. Whether you want to assemble and master stereo tracks for your own CD, edit audio files for multimedia or broadcast, time stretch and pitch shift samples, WaveLab Essential will do the job!

Solves audio editing needs for a wide variety of users
  • Stereo and multitrack editing - Easy cutting of audio files, non-destructive real-time fades, real-time crossfades, comprehensive tools for fine tuning edits, automatic positioning at zero volume
  • Mastering - Audio editing, arranging CD tracks, audio processing with internal EQs, dynamics and effects or virtual effect processors by third party manufacturers, automatic volume adjustment, dithering and noise shaping
  • Broadcast - Vocal edits, easy graphic arrangement of audio files for radio or film dubbing, automatic real-time crossfades
  • Multimedia - Easy arranging of audio files for multimedia applications, encoder batch processing, integrated sample rate conversion, MP3 support
  • Sound Design for Samples - Sound editing with internal equalizers, dynamics and effects, time stretching and pitch shifting with automatic pitch recognition, functions for creating sample loops

Built-in effects processor and VST/DirectX plug-in support
WaveLab Essential comes with high-quality virtual effects processors included, featuring EQs and dynamics plug-ins, reverbs and echoes, vocal attenuators, and more. Plus, you can use VST and DirectX plug-ins with WaveLab Essential, which opens up a huge variety of available effects for your creative use.

Burn CDs directly from WaveLab
Working in WaveLab Essential, you can burn straight to CD - no other application is needed! Burn both audio and data CDs quickly and easily. Plus, WaveLab Essential includes a label editor so you can create your own CD labels.

Steinberg WaveLab Essential Features:
  • Fast and flexible audio editor
  • Powerful audio montage: innovative, clip oriented editing system
  • Real-time VST and DirectX audio plug-in support
  • MP3 encoding/decoding
  • Audio and Data CD burning
  • Label editor for creating your own CD covers
  • Easy-to-use stereo editor
  • Non-destructive, clip-based audio montage
  • ASIO, WDM and MME support
  • High quality virtual effect processors included
  • Master Section: simple rearranging of the effect chain with drag and drop
  • Unlimited undo/redo
  • QSC audio file format for lossless audio compression
WaveLab Essential makes audio editing easy!

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