I am pretty new to using Wavelab. Today, I was trying to set up Wavelab 12 pro to output audio to my main outputs, as well as a separate headphone output that are being processed with Slate VSX.
I could only seem to get the audio output to go to either the headphones or the main out, not both. Is this correct, or is there some way for me to configure this?
I am very used to the Cubase control room, and am confused that this is not incorporated into Wavelab as it is such great workflow. What I am trying to set up in Wavelab is very simple to configure in Cubase/Nuendo.
It is also strange to me that Wavelab is not visually consistent with Cubase/Nuendo.
The menu systems are all quite different as well, which is making it harder to navigate/learn.
Hi!
What Audio Device and check Monitor + Headphones channels routing like
Speaker out channel 1 and 2
Headphones channel 3 and 4
setup in WaveLab > File > Preferences > Audio Connections > Audio Device > Main Playback Bus
and in Master Section select what is needed
This is correct. The concept in WaveLab is that you won’t listen to your speakers and headphones. But you can switch from one to the other very easily, for example, with a shortcut, by configuring the Speaker Configuration. See this:
That’s a shame. My aim was to make some Youtube content, mastering some music using the Slate VSX headphones. For this to work, I need 2 simultaneous outputs, the unprocessed main output for the screen capture, and the processed headphone output for monitoring.
Strange and seemingly unnecessary limitation.
Agree 100%
The music routing of Wavelab is not state of the art, imho.
Loopback-recording is also not possible with WL. But it is in Audacity with ease…
Or is it?
How to record music of a YouTube-video with Wavelab easy-peasy?
Oh, I forgot: It’s for professionals… They don’t do this kind of stuff.
Fine, what is the “Main Playback Bus” than?
Is it not the one listening music on?
Fact is, this is not easy-peasy. I expect a music program, that costs 489,-€ in the year 2025(!) to do just that: Record when click on the record button. Without any further hazzle.
Just imagine to record a YouTube-video or a radio-broadcast… it’s not rocket science…, or is it?
Ah year, I forgot that… not professional enough to understand this restriction.
Sorry for even mentioning this in 2025 (!).
Recording of sound is a basic feature of music-software. Sure, Wavelab can do lots of sophisticated stuff, but on very basic tasks, it just fails miserably.
Of course I can use other programs to do just this basic feature; Audacity for instance.
But why is this necessary??? There is no excuse for this.
Wavelab is a great program, no question about that. But to rely for basic tasks on other programs… na, you’re kidding me.
We are not talking about streaming or whatever. Just plain vanilla recording of that, which is playing. If that is too much to ask for,… sorry.
Neither was Cubase, but the flexibility of the monitor routing in the Cubase control room is vastly superior to what is available in Wavelab.
Regardless of whether I would appreciate being able to use wavelab for content creation from time to time, I would very much like to have separate, simultaneous outputs for both my headphones and main monitors, with different processing available on each monitor output.
This is very simple to set up in Cubase/Nuendo.
