New Features

When a clip has been resized, this is now indicated by a small triangle in the top left/right corner of a clip. This allows you to quickly see whether a clip has been resized. The indicator also displays the remaining audio length before/after the clip. See Clip Resizing.

You can show or hide the Gain pane in the Track Inspector window to focus on the panes that you need. See Showing/Hiding Panes in the Track Inspector Window.

You can now set markers for individual channels. See Creating Markers.

You can now instruct WaveLab Cast to ignore the properties of plug-ins that have been updated. If you have plug-ins that are updated often, this option speeds up the WaveLab Cast startup. See Plug-ins Tab (Preferences).

When you play back audio files in the File Browser window, you can now optionally play back the audio file through the Master Section plug-ins. See File Browser Window.

You can now quickly switch playback between the left/right, mid/side, channel clusters, or both the left/right or mid/side audio channels. See Playing Back Focused Audio Channels.

WaveLab Cast now allows you to directly upload your Podcast to the Podcast Host Services Blubrry and Captivate. See Podcast.

In the Audio Editor, you can now click the channel control area to move the edit cursor and the selection range to another channel. See Selecting Channels in Audio Files.

You can now hide ticks on the Bars and Beats ruler. See Time Format Dialog.

In the File Browser window, you can now synchronize the folder tree to the file list, so that the folder that is selected in the file list will also be shown in the folder tree. See File Browser Window.

You can now activate/deactivate auto-shift of clips when moving a clip (ripple). See Edit Tab (Audio Montage).

In the File Browser window, you can now right-click a folder and quickly add it to the favorite folders list. See Adding Folders to the Favorite Folders List.

In the Audio Editor, you can now double-click the Vertical Zoom control to switch between an optimized height and the default zoom. See Zooming Using the Zoom Controls.

You can now trigger the Play from Anchor playback option with the Space bar. See Transport Bar.

If you are not in the Audio Editor, you can now Alt/Opt-click Record on the transport bar or press Alt/Opt-R to quickly open the Recording dialog. See Recording Dialog.

In the Audio Montage window, you can now activate/deactivate record-enable via Ctrl/Cmd-: and monitor track via :. See Recording in the Audio Montage Window.

When you insert a stereo audio file into a mono track, you can decide whether to automatically create a stereo track or split the stereo file on two mono tracks. See Insert Stereo Audio Files into Mono Tracks or Vice Versa.

Bouncing clips allows you to render several clips to a single clip. The rendering takes envelope settings and gain settings of the clips into account. Track effects are not rendered. See Bounce Selected Clips.

In the Audio Montage window, you now have more options to edit volume, fades, and pan envelopes. See Envelopes for Clips.

Ducking allows you to control the level of an audio track with another audio track. This is commonly used to control the music level of one track with the voice level on another track. See Track Ducking.

The Track Inspector window allows you to clean up and enhance your audio, add effect plug-ins to tracks, and make gain settings. You can use the DeEsser, DeNoiser, and DeHummer to clean your audio. The Voice Exciter, Reverb, EQ, and Maximizer allow you to enhance your audio. See Track Effects.

You can now record single or multiple tracks directly in the audio montage. For example, this allows you to record each speaker of a Podcast to a specific track. WaveLab Cast automatically detects the available input buses of your ASIO device and creates the stereo and mono input buses. See Recording in the Audio Montage Window.

You can now monitor the input signal in the audio montage. This allows you to listen to the effects that your WaveLab Cast setup has on your input signal. See Input Monitoring.

You can now specify custom names for your audio ports in the Audio Connections tab. See Specifying Custom Names for Audio Ports.

You can now delete a selection range within a clip. See Deleting Parts of Clips Inside Selection Ranges.

Direct monitoring allows you to monitor the input signal with lower latency. If Direct Monitoring is activated, the input signal is monitored directly without going through the audio montage and its effects. See Direct Monitoring.

The Startup dialog has been improved. See Startup Dialog.

The Restrict Scaling to Multiples of 100 option allows you to decide whether the scaling factor must be multiples of 100 or if intermediate ratios are allowed. See Display Tab (Global Preferences).