Steinberg Wavelab coming for Mac

[24-96 Mastering]

Originally Posted by Table Of Tone

Lynx L22, everything set the same.

OK, that one got me the other day... Wavelab 7 had some setting active that would reset the audio driver on sample rate change, which with my Lynx AES16 driver resulted in the clock switching to internal; which, mismatched with the ADDA resulted in some low level clicks/junk.

You also have both WL7 and WL6.
Can you hear any difference in playback?

If you can, close your eyes and get someone to blind test you as well.

Will do later tonight!

[Table Of Tone]

The Mac version of WL7 seems to sound fine.

I doubled up a couple captures using it as playback this evening.
Nothing was telling me anything sounded wrong!

[24-96 Mastering]

Originally Posted by Table Of Tone

You also have both WL7 and WL6.
Can you hear any difference in playback?

If you can, close your eyes and get someone to blind test you as well.

Sorry, I didn't have anyone here to do a blind a/b with me tonight, but I assembled an album in WL7 that I had worked on in WL6 before and didn't notice anything different.
I also ran a quick capture from both WL7 and WL6 playback and they nulled. My guess is that if WL7 sounds different on your PC, something must be up with the application or its asio settings. From what I can tell, both produce identical playback here on my workstation.

[Table Of Tone]

Originally Posted by 24-96 Mastering

Sorry, I didn't have anyone here to do a blind a/b with me tonight, but I assembled an album in WL7 that I had worked on in WL6 before and didn't notice anything different.
I also ran a quick capture from both WL7 and WL6 playback and they nulled. My guess is that if WL7 sounds different on your PC, something must be up with the application or its asio settings. From what I can tell, both produce identical playback here on my workstation.

I think you are right in saying that both editors possibly respond differently to my Lynx L22, depending on what I'm clocking it with.

All files rendered on both WL6 and WL7 seemed to null with each other, which is a good thing!

[David Spearritt]

Originally Posted by 24-96 Mastering

OK, that one got me the other day... Wavelab 7 had some setting active that would reset the audio driver on sample rate change, which with my Lynx AES16 driver resulted in the clock switching to internal; which, mismatched with the ADDA resulted in some low level clicks/junk.

Will do later tonight!

Yes I got this and crashes as well, also Lynx AES16 driver. Solution was a setting not to reset driver in prefs. Worked a charm.

Lynx driver is also giving grief to Pyramix by changing or resetting sample rate.

[24-96 Mastering]

Originally Posted by David Spearritt

Yes I got this and crashes as well, also Lynx AES16 driver. Solution was a setting not to reset driver in prefs. Worked a charm.

Lynx driver is also giving grief to Pyramix by changing or resetting sample rate.

Is WL7 stable for you now? Are you on Windows XP?

[StephanieVilla]

Hello,

At our studio we use Soundblade. Obviously it has its issues but we love the sound of it and having NoNoise at our disposal. We would consider switching to Wavelab if we are sure that the Sonnox restoration tools are on par with NoNoise. Could anybody provide any feedback regarding that portion of WL7?


Thank you kindly,
Stephanie Villa

[Table Of Tone]

Originally Posted by StephanieVilla

Hello,

At our studio we use Soundblade. Obviously it has its issues but we love the sound of it and having NoNoise at our disposal. We would consider switching to Wavelab if we are sure that the Sonnox restoration tools are on par with NoNoise. Could anybody provide any feedback regarding that portion of WL7?


Thank you kindly,
Stephanie Villa

The Sonnox restoration stuff is OK.

My advice would be to keep soundBlade and get WaveLab 7 as well.

You can run it on both OSX and Windoze.

If you run it on Windoze, you can also run the CubeTec restoration VPI's.
Those are the best I've tried!

[David Spearritt]

Originally Posted by 24-96 Mastering

Is WL7 stable for you now? Are you on Windows XP?

Seems to be, no I am on W7 32.

[PraiseStudios]

Just upgraded and on WL7 as well on the Mac. So far smooth on 10.5.8

Thanks

[MattGray]

Originally Posted by Table Of Tone

The Sonnox restoration stuff is OK.

My advice would be to keep soundBlade and get WaveLab 7 as well.

You can run it on both OSX and Windoze.

If you run it on Windoze, you can also run the CubeTec restoration VPI's.
Those are the best I've tried!

Hey Ade, did you know the CubeTec restoration VPI's also run on ProTools as RTAS for Mac? I've been trying them out recently & they are indeed very good. I also have the NoNoise suite & iZotope RX for ProTools. All great options.. the Sonnox decrackler is useful on some things as well, works great post FG-X... sorry couldn't resist...

[Jerry Tubb]

Originally Posted by PraiseStudios

Just upgraded and on WL7 as well on the Mac. So far smooth on 10.5.8

Thanks

I thought it was Snow Leopard only?

JT

[PraiseStudios]

Originally Posted by Jerry Tubb

I thought it was Snow Leopard only?

JT

That is the official line from PG but Have been running it in the last two days on the Mac 10.5.8 with no problems.

Hope this helps.

[Jerry Tubb]

Originally Posted by PraiseStudios

That is the official line from PG but Have been running it in the last two days on the Mac 10.5.8 with no problems.

Hope this helps.

Interesting.

LOL to your avatar!

JT

[Waltz Mastering]

Originally Posted by Table Of Tone

The Sonnox restoration stuff is OK.

Curious how the Sonnox Restoration suite that comes with Elements 7 and WL7 compare to the Sonnox Oxford Restore Suite? Do you have oxford and had time to do any comparisons?

[noiseinc]

hi everybody,

if your running the new WL 7 on mac and you are encountering VST 3 issues with Waves Plugins, then get the latest waveshell and your problem is solved.

other than that, i can only report flawless running on both, MBP dualcore 2,16 gHz and Mac Pro 8 core.

all the best

[Andy Krehm]

Originally Posted by PraiseStudios

That is the official line from PG but Have been running it in the last two days on the Mac 10.5.8 with no problems.

Hope this helps.

Keep us up to date, if any problems. I was going to hold off until I decided whether to upgrade to new Mac or switch to PC but if it works well on the old OS, I'm in.

[Table Of Tone]

Originally Posted by MattGray

Hey Ade, did you know the CubeTec restoration VPI's also run on ProTools as RTAS for Mac? I've been trying them out recently & they are indeed very good. I also have the NoNoise suite & iZotope RX for ProTools. All great options.. the Sonnox decrackler is useful on some things as well, works great post FG-X... sorry couldn't resist...

LOL!
That's hilarious about FG-X!

For me, it's just like any other saturation curve, in the way that, you have to be real careful how much of it you use.

I did know that just the restoration VPI's run on PT.
Not the cheapest things on the planet, but they are really good!

I managed to completely transform an entire album of serious haircut mixes using the declipper VPI.

I then used the resulting declipped wav's for playback and the client couldn't believe how it ended up sounding!
It ended up sounding cleaner than the original mixes but still at the volume the client wanted.

[Table Of Tone]

Originally Posted by Waltz Mastering

Curious how the Sonnox Restoration suite that comes with Elements 7 and WL7 compare to the Sonnox Oxford Restore Suite? Do you have oxford and had time to do any comparisons?

No, I don't have the original Oxford versions.

[phild]

Originally Posted by Table Of Tone

No, I don't have the original Oxford versions.

I would 100% put the algorithmix stuff right up there too! I think it's called "Scratch Free"?
But everyone should just save a $fortune$ and use the "spectral cleaning" that's stock in Sequoia - best yet! Dave McNair showed me that.

Wavelab has something similar but I don't know what it's called. There's also a function that automatically detects all errors and fixes them.

Just a matter of time until the computer will be all we need for this job!

[streetbeats]

Originally Posted by phild

I would 100% put the algorithmix stuff right up there too! I think it's called "Scratch Free"?
But everyone should just save a $fortune$ and use the "spectral cleaning" that's stock in Sequoia - best yet! Dave McNair showed me that.

Wavelab has something similar but I don't know what it's called. There's also a function that automatically detects all errors and fixes them.

Just a matter of time until the computer will be all we need for this job!

I havent been able to justify moving from Samp to Sequoia yet.I know the XFade editor is improved in Sequoia, but I think the Spectral Cleaning stuff is unchanged. Regardless, even if its not, the stuff in Samp is incredible. Really powerful restoration tool.

[jdg]

any mac user, go get wavelab 7.
its really great. i had no idea (since being a mac user since forever)

im loving it.

[adamgonsa]

Originally Posted by jdg

any mac user, go get wavelab 7.
its really great. i had no idea (since being a mac user since forever)

What were you using before (SB?, Logic+Waveburner?) In what ways does WL perform better?

[jdg]

slingBlade.

i switched to samplitude on a PC first thing this year.

still love samp! capture, set PQ, burn. thats all do with it.

but i pitch from one daw (OSX) and catch on samp.

and as a pitching/source DAW, wavelab is making my week awesome.
the playback features alone = love

[Measuring Man]

Originally Posted by PraiseStudios

That is the official line from PG but Have been running it in the last two days on the Mac 10.5.8 with no problems.

Hope this helps.

Yes but is that on an Intel machine? PPC users are still S.O.L. I presume?

[PraiseStudios]

Originally Posted by Measuring Man

Yes but is that on an Intel machine? PPC users are still S.O.L. I presume?

Yes, I am using Intel Mac on 10.5.8 and smooth so far.

Thanks