The waveforms can now be displayed smooth. It’s a new feature called “Smooth waveform drawing” that was added in Cubase 12 and is enabled with Interpolate Audio Waveforms in Preferences.
Interpolate Audio Waveforms now does two things :
- When the waveform is zoomed out, it processes it with anti-aliasing to smooth out sharp pixels, just like in video games. As a result it makes the outline a bit thicker because it creates new gradient pixels in between so the waveform display is no longer pixel-perfect. This is more or less apparent depending on the zoom level when the waveform “merges” or not, and on your screen resolution.
- When you zoom in enough to see the samples, it joins them with a curved line instead of flat steps. That’s what this setting did for many years and still does.
Here’s @pgstudio main complaint :
He kept talking about those silences being rendered thicker, but even after posting screenshots several times, never noticed the difference between aliased (C11) and smooth (C12) waveforms.
So, here are new screenshots so you guys can see better :
- Interpolate Audio Waveforms Disabled:
- Interpolate Audio Waveforms Enabled:
So finally, what @pgstudio complains about is that in the MAC version of Cubase 12, disabling Interpolate Audio Waveforms does not work and it stays on all the time.
Can you guys confirm those bugs once for all ?
And agree that the following could be an improvement ?