(My) Wavelab Future wish list

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Hi, First let me start by saying, I love WL again! I started using WL 3 -6.5 and it really broke my heart when the editor features went away BUT, I understood. kinda.
With the release of WL 12, the engine is better, the crashes are few and some key editing features are back!!! AWESOME!
Almost all Plug-in companies offer a mastering suite of plugs (Wavelab is still the king of mastering) however, a lot of people are now capable of mixing and mastering in their favorite DAW.
So, why not offer Wavelab with a more than capable editor? just a thought.
It’s great now but, can use a few tweeks… here are my ideas, that would really help with my workflow
1) Smaller tracks. I’d love to be able to have more than six tracks on my screen at one time. (Maybe an option to go smallest, small, regular, large)
2) Duplicate clip. (With key command option) Speed is king in my business.
This used to be available in WL 5… Duplicates clip and places it directly behind the original clip. If I remember correctly there used to be an option 1-10, that was cool!!
3) Key command for Clip Pan and Volume Pan. I thank you for adding the clip pan option in the clip pane!! Again, speed is king.
4) Zoom at curser option. Zooming at the pointer is good for some but, I find myself getting lost in zoom-land sometimes.
5) Turn clip names on/off option. Or, remove the “box” the clip names are in and allow the name to sit on the waveform. The box is in the way, in my opinion.
6) MP3 encoding pop up “favorite” button or, “last used” button. I save all my MP3’s Lame 320 highest quality. changing it every time is a waste of time.
7) File browser clip select. They now offer this in Nuendo. I have LARGE files with multiple audio clips within each file, I’d love to be able to skim through and pull out the pieces i need without having to drop the whole file into the montage and pick from there.
8) Return to last curser position on stop option. Options are nice.
9) Effects “Always on top” option. Sometimes I open an effect then return to montage to highlight and loop and the effect disappears? Once an effect is open, I’d like to keep it open until I close it.
10) “Delete, are you sure” option. When I highlight more than one clip to delete it’ll say (Delete 5 clips are you sure?) well…Yeah, I’m sure! and if I screw up I can undo. An option to turn that off would be nice or, have it pop-up right under the pointer. Chasing that box is a pain in the tuchus!!

These are just ideas, I, in no way think I’m special… that’s a lie… I am special. do with these what you will and thank you for an amazing DAW!

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Very useful suggestions!

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This function is still there:

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Not sure what you mean, because WaveLab can zoom at the mouse cursor (with the mouse wheel) or at the edit cursor, with key shortcuts or buttons.

Use the Render options and don’t use “Save As”. You have render presets that save all options.

This is possible, right click there:

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AWESOME!! Thank you PG1!! I knew there would be some that I missed.
Repete clip…duh!!! I’m stupid!
so, Ctrl-shift mouse wheel zooms at the curser!! Very cool!
LOVE IT!
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And BTW, thanks for your list :wink:

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I’d love to see stereo side-chaining built in.

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Not to hijack this topic, but I would again kindly ask to consider implementing this feature in the future. From the technical side, I can’t imagine that it would be that challenging to implement, but it would mean a lot to someone like me. Thanks again.

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You mean, like Click + Alternate, but without the need to maintain the mouse button pressed?

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Sorry, I don’t know what you mean by alternate.

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The "Alternate Key " (Option Key on Mac).

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Oh, I am using PC, which is why I was confused :slight_smile:

No, that’s not quite it. If you open Cubase and press space key, then you hear your song play. And while it’s playing you can click around in the timeline, without the need of pressing down any modifier key. Then you can “skip around” your song, without having to press space every time you click to a new position.

If you do that in Wavelab, then your cursor is placed wherever you click, but it’s not resuming playback, from where you click it. You have to manually press space every time. And if you are searching for a particular part of an audio clip, it can become tiring clicking on a new position and then pressing space, and then clicking on the new position and then pressing space.

I’m sure many Wavelab users have gotten used to the way it is right now, but if an option was added, at least, to mimic Cubase’s behavior, it would give another preference on how Wavelab behaves. And in this case I believe it would be more convenient to have this option available.

You are the master, but if I could humbly make a suggestion, it could be a checkbox somewhere in the preferences called something like: “Resume playback at new cursor position”, or: “Resume playback from new clicked cursor position”.

And I am no expert in programming, at all, but the pseudo code for this new enabled setting could look something like this:

Is the audio playing? No. Then if you click somewhere on the audio waveform, take the cursor there and do nothing.

Is the audio playing? Yes.
While the audio is playing, and you click somewhere on the waveform, then take the cursor there and resume audio playback from the new cursor position. (In both the Montage and the Audio Editor)

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Since this feature already exists by clicking in the timeline, I don’t see the point of doing the same when clicking in the waveform. Maybe as a non-default option, but that would need more votes.
Doing some edits, using the mouse, but not interrupting playback, is something built-in WaveLab since version 1.0.

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It can be easy to miss by clicking on the timeline, and sometimes if you accidentally drag the mouse too far up or down when clicking, then you end up zooming in or out, which is annoying.

This could still remain as the default behavior.

But this extra, optional feature, that I suggested, would bring Wavelab a bit closer to Cubase’s default behavior, if one wishes to.

Wouldn’t it be in Steinberg’s interest to make their products behave in a similar manner? Especially given the fact that Wavelab can already be opened in Cubase as an ARA extension.

Yeah, well, then I’m out of luck :smiley:

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