New Features

Simplified Chinese has been added to the languages available in the application.

Tooltips are now provided for the controls in all dialog boxes. See Help System.

The design of the Startup Assistant has been optimized, with a special focus on ease of use. See Startup Assistant Window.

A new Steinberg built-in ASIO driver with automatic sample rate conversion is now available. See Selecting the Steinberg Built-In ASIO Driver (Windows only).

In the new Rainbow display, which is available both in the Audio Editor and in the Audio Montage window, audio waveforms are visualized in multiple colors, reflecting the spectral features of the audio material. See Rainbow Display.

To optimize cross-application workflows, WaveLab offers new drag and drop/copy and paste options that allow you to transfer any audio range from WaveLab to any other application, either with or without effects. See Cross-Application Copying Operations.

You can now activate automatic crossfading for operations such as cutting, pasting, inserting, muting, cropping, or deleting segments of your audio. See Edit Tab (Audio Editor).

WaveLab now supports the Opus file format, both for decoding and encoding. See Opus Audio File Encoding Dialog.

You can now apply crossfades while adjusting the gain of a specific audio range, to create a seamless transition and to prevent abrupt clicks between the selected range and the surrounding audio on playback. See Gain Dialog.

When importing audio files into audio montages, you can now choose to create a copy of the original audio file in the audio montage folder or one of its subfolders, and whether or not to save this choice for future imports. See Import Files Dialog.

If the sample rate of your audio montage differs from the sample rates of the audio files that you want to insert into it, as an alternative to creating and using copies of the audio files and setting them to the sample rate of the audio montage, you can now also choose to set the audio montage to the sample rate of the audio files. See Resolving Sample Rate Mismatches between Audio Montages and Audio Files.

To make it easier to identify individual clips, you can now prompt WaveLab to automatically assign a random color to each of your selected clips. See Coloring Clips.

You can now use context-based color codes for effect plug-in windows. See Color Codes for Track Effect Plug-ins.

You can now prevent WaveLab Cast from searching for and displaying plug-ins using the old VST 2 standard. See Plug-ins Tab (Preferences).

You can now synchronize the edit cursor position with the playback cursor position via the status bar. See Status Bar.

You can now display a grid in the Audio Editor or for clips in the Audio Montage window, aligned with time ruler marks; that is, the major ticks on the time ruler. See Time Ruler Menu.

In the File Browser window, there is now a button to manually reload the content, to reflect any updates and changes. See File Browser Window.

With Insert Mode activated, all plug-ins below the selected slot are automatically moved one step down when you add a new plug-in. See Effects Pane.

You can now customize the playback cursor according to your requirements, and to better distinguish it from the edit cursor. See Display Tab (Global Preferences).

You can now set the time after which tooltips appear when you move the mouse over user interface controls, or you can choose not to display tooltips at all. See Display Tab (Global Preferences).

The new Startup Assistant allows you to choose the working environment that suits your workflow, to create and open audio files, audio montages, batch processors, or projects, and to establish your audio connections – all in a single place. In addition to this, it offers you WaveLab-related information and news and provides useful links. See Startup Assistant Window.

You can now display your mouse and keyboard input activity in real time, which is useful for screenshots and screencasting purposes, such as demos, presentations, and tutorials. See Visualization of Keyboard and Mouse Input.

The new Startup Assistant allows you to assemble your audio files in an audio montage in a few simple steps. See Creating an Audio Montage via the Startup Assistant.

You can now zoom in or out while selecting an audio range. See Zooming while Selecting an Audio Range.

Two new options in the Level section of the Envelope tab allow you to reduce the level of an audio selection by -6 dB or -9 dB via a single mouse click. See Envelope Tab (Audio Montage).

You can now easily move the edit cursor to the exact position of an envelope point via the Envelope context menu of the Audio Montage window. See Moving the Edit Cursor to an Envelope Point.

The new Chapter Generator allows you to divide your audio material into chapters via marker pairs and to create a text file listing them, for use on YouTube or Spotify. See Generating Chapters for YouTube and Spotify via Markers.

In the Audio Editor, you can now make audio selections snap to time ruler marks and quantize the audio selection at the same time. See Quantizing Audio Selections based on Time Ruler Marks.

The cue point options have been revised and extended. See Edit Tab (Audio Montage).

When you edit envelope points with the mouse, you can now set them to snap to active anchors. See Snapping Envelope Points to Anchors.