Revamped and ready to go, Steinberg WaveLab 7 audio editing and mastering software is now shipping with myriad new features for both Mac and PC users. WaveLab 7 offers a redesigned graphical user interface, new VST3 plugins and restoration tools, flexible multiprocessing capabilities, and much more.

Whether you intend to use WaveLab 7 to record, edit, restore, or publish audio, the software's redesigned graphical user interface should improve the speed and efficiency of your workflow. Said to make working with audio more intuitive, the new interface features a customizable window and toolbar management system, a new docking and scaling system, and handling of audio material across multiple windows or Workspaces.

The software also includes a restoration tool package that includes Sonnox DeNoiser, DeBuzzer, and DeClicker plugins, plus 30 new VST3 plugins for further processing. A new WaveLab Control section, DDP support, a new CD and DVD-A burning engine, and the DIRAC 2.2 time-stretching and pitch-shifting algorithm have been added to WaveLab 7 as well.

DIRAC 2.2 provides a chromatic pitch correction on an equal-tempered scale, as well as a freely definable tuning table. The algorithm features unlimited sample rate support, making it possible to time-stretch and pitch-shift audio material with up to 384 kHz in WaveLab 7. In addition, DIRAC 2.2 includes a new formant correction engine that reproduces the instrument and voice tones precisely, according to Steinberg. The speed of time-stretching and pitch-shifting processing has been improved also.

Overview of what's new in version 7:

• Now available for Mac
• New workflow concept with workspace management, a customizable tab area, an in-application help system, and scalable tools and windows
• Four different, customizable Workspaces, named Audio File, Audio Montage, Batch Processor, and Podcast
• WaveLab Control section lets you group a freely selectable range of analysis tools (such as spectroscope, VU metering, oscilloscope, waveform display, spectrum metering, phase correlation tool, and bit-metering) in a dedicated space that can be detached and moved to another display
• Includes VST3 plugins: EQs, reverbs, dynamic processors, modulation effects, and more
• Includes the Sonnox Restoration Suite with DeNoiser, DeBuzzer, and DeClicker plugins
• DIRAC 2.2 time-stretching and pitch-shifting algorithm
• New Burning Engine capable of reliably burning audio CDs, DVD-Audio, and professional DDP images
• DDP (Disk Description Protocol) support
• Improved Batch Processing

WaveLab 7 is now available as a boxed version for 599 EUR (approximately $783). The stripped-down version of the software, WaveLab Elements 7, is available as either a boxed or a download version for 99 EUR (approximately $129). For more information, visit steinberg.net.