


Dispersion smears sounds so they are less obvious in the mix, without removing them and leaving a hole in the spectrum, while the four Fade options are great for reducing the impact of transients or gradually changing certain spectral aspects of a region. Blur Peaks is easy to understand in the graphic sense, and is a powerful tool when you want to remove certain spectral parts of a sound. Damp is generally used to reduce levels, with a choice of band-pass, low-pass and high-pass filter options to reduce various unwanted parts of a region. Surgical processing offers a variety of filtering alternatives.
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Both modes use high-quality linear-phase filters capable of 'infinite' steepness in excess of 1000dB/octave, although you have full control over the steepness and the crossfade time where the filtered portion is merged with the original audio signal. You can either treat the selected regions with off-line Surgical processing, or real-time Master Section processing. With stereo files, an identical region is automatically created in the other channel. Once you've selected Spectrum editor mode, an associated dialogue window appears and the cursor changes to allow you to define a rectangular region on the display. However, you don't often get the option of performing edits in this mode, so Wavelab 6 's spectrum editing is a very welcome addition in an application at this price. I've always enjoyed spectrogram views because they show things that may not be visible any other way, such as low-level hums and whistles (which appear as horizontal lines) and what enhancers are actually doing to your audio (changes of colour near the top of the window). The Spectrum display options include colour, black and white, logarithmic/linear frequency scale, resolution of the FFT spectral analysis (a compromise between frequency and time resolution), and audio range as this is lowered, only the 'louder' frequency content appears on screen, which is a great way to home in on transients, for instance. The new Loudness Display shows loudness over time in up to four frequency bands, so you can see the spectral distribution of energy in your songs.The Spectrum option displays your waveforms in spectrogram format, with time across the horizontal axis, frequency content rising up the vertical axis, and intensity linked to a range of colours or black/white strength.
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You can choose different modes for the main window and overview, and either zoom each separately, or synchronise them so that (for instance) you can have a spectrum display in the overview and wave displays in the main windows beneath, and they will remain locked together when you zoom in and out. The standard mode familiar from previous versions is Wave, but this is now joined by Loudness Envelope and Spectrum. The most notable new feature is that each waveform window and associated overview can now be viewed in any of three display modes. Those upgrading without a suitable dongle can buy one from Arbiter for £20 (it must be bought at the same time as the upgrade, though). Wavelab upgrades don't include this dongle, but if you already own any of the aforementioned products you can use its dongle to authorise Wavelab 6.
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The full version is supplied with a Synchrosoft dongle identical to that used by Cubase SX, Nuendo 2 and 3, Hypersonic and Halion 3.

For the first time ever, Wavelab is protected by a USB dongle. Wavelab 6 proves them wrong, but one new addition may not be as welcome as the others. Given that Wavelab 5 already included more features than many musicians could shake a stick at, some may have wondered if there were any more new features that could possibly be added. Each new version has managed to add numerous new features and improvements without sacrificing stability or performance. Since its first release in 1996, Philippe Goutier's Wavelab application has jumped to the next major revision every couple of years. Wavelab 's latest tricks include a revolutionary Spectrum Editor, which allows you to identify problem areas in your material visually before applying extremely precise restoration processes. The Spectrum Editor lets you view audio files in spectrogram mode, draw round any region and edit it in lots of different ways that will prove invaluable to anyone trying to restore damaged or problem recordings.
