Just tried out WL12 a bit and really liking the new features! I have to mess around a bit more with it to get a better picture but so far so good.
I have a few feature requests that I brought up at some point, I would of course have been great to see them implemented but unfortunately this wasn’t the case this time. I’ll just highlight them in case this is something that is not way too complicated to add at some point:
Possibility to include dithering in the render presets. It would speed things up a lot for me at least when I for example need to render DDP, 16 bit wav, 24 bit wav and so on from the same montage. If dithering was available at that stage, I could create a multi-format render and let the machine do its work. As it is now, I have to change dithering settings manually all the time for different presets, so it requires my supervision.
Automatic names in the Album Report. The main thing here would be to add “Side A”, “Side B” and so on to the file name when creating reports for vinyl. Even better if we could chose to make reports for several track groups at the same time. This type of file naming is possible in the Render for example (Scheme, including an example below)
(Pretty sure I had one more request but I can’t remember right now)
For my purposes, it would be the entire naming scheme.
When I render vinyl sides I manually put this in the name field: Artist_Album-Title
Then for vinyl (and cassette) sides I have the Naming Scheme add _SIDE_A and _SIDE_B etc. to the final name based on the Title Group.
If the Album Report names could fully match the WAV file I name I created for each side that would be a nice time saver.
Right now I have to manually enter this and the default name for the Album Report seems to be the full montage name which is sometimes nice, but not for vinyl & cassette masters.
Yes. For me it’s important for the rendered file name and the report for each side to have the same name so it’s easy for the cutting engineer to look at.
I also manually add a large SIDE A and SIDE B text in red on the generated PDF via the Preview app because what WaveLab does isn’t as noticeable.
Taking it one step further, maybe an option to create a single PDF file with all the sides included (automatic page breaks to divide them up, for example)
Yeah, I’ve often thought about that but the reports are already so bloated that I like doing one report per side so for vinyl, most albums fit on one PDF page.
The entire Album Report needs a big overhaul in my opinion . For CD/digtial albums, they can take up to 2 or 3 pages.
I remember back when I used Waveburner (before WaveLab was on Mac) it could easily fit a full typical album and all its data on one page and everything was clear.
I saw it. It’s OK but I don’t think the solution is better than the problem.
It seems to be missing the Total Time, start time, and a lot of other info. It’s more compact but when I save it as a PDF, it has a TON of extra white space around the info.
I think it needs too much work to use and for me, it’s too much work to run every project through this script on the web.
I hope someday WaveLab can produce great looking PDF reports that are sleek, modern, and not mildly embarrassing to send out.
Hi Justin,
the CD report is renamed to Album report in WL 12 and Tracks are renamed to Titles. Is there a way of customizing the new Album report to have the naming convention as previous CD report. I find it misleading that it prints out “Number of titles” instead of “Number of tracks” for example.
Maybe I am missing something or there is a way to customize it.
I’m not sure. In my opinion, the report is LONG overdue for a serious overhaul and should be high priority for WaveLab (before anything else) but that’s just my opinion.
Thank you for your reply Justin. Can I check wheater your new reports in WL 12 print out the way I describe with “number of titles” instead of “number of tracks”? I am trying to find a user error on my side wich would have a soultion.
I worked as that “unknown” cutting engineer for a pressing plant and getting a streamlined and meaningful vinyl tracklist was a major advantage for the project.
Mine say “titles” which I guess I never really noticed or thought much of. See attached set of PDFs for a recent vinyl cutting master.
My vinyl side reports are a little different looking than my Digital/CD reports but one great feature of WaveLab is that you can create a vinyl pre-master in one montage, and easily render a WAV of each side and generate a matching PDF for each side, which is great for sides B and beyond and something very few mastering DAWs can do, and is a notable part of why I use WaveLab.
Thank you for the current examples. I followed your Vinyl workflow video and this fairly little difference bugged me - now I know it is part of the new “Album report” wich seems to have some improvements besides the renaming.
If I may suggest one little addition to the report template. It is nice to have the desired format (typically 12" 33 RPM, 7" 45 RPM) confirmed on the tracklist from the cutting engineer point of view. It is quite obvious for 19 minutes per side to choose 33 RPM. But 15 minute side could fit on a 12" 45 RPM format for example. Of course If you comunicate directly with the cutting engineer it is a different scenario.
