Wavelab 7...now for Mac?

[john doe by choice]

Of all of the software that I always wanted to be dual platform, Wavelab is the only one that remained consistent - I always heard good things about it, even from people who weren't huge cubase fans. However, I've really gotten into soundtrack over the years, and I'm not looking at a career in audio mastering, so I have to ask if it's even worth it anymore. Even back when I probably would have bought it, it was over $500, and I've already got Soundtrack included with Final Cut, so I have to ask if something like this is even worth considering?

Anybody out there have a chance to use Soundtrack and Wavelab with enough experience to tell me why I should prefer one over the other? Keep in mind, mastering is not my focus - I do a fair amount of film score type stuff when I am working with audio, and have found a pretty good workflow for myself between Live 7 and Soundtrack.

[Hidden Driveways]

This is awesome news. I'm not familiar with Soundtrack (I played around a little with the first version, but that's about it). I used to use Wavelab waaay back in 2003 when I was still using a PC. I will be happy to check it out in 2010 on my next Mac.

This is the kind of trend that I want to see. Long time PC-only audio software going dual platform.

[Hidden Driveways]

This video is kind of lolz:

http://www.steinberg.net/en/products/au ... view0.html

[john doe by choice]

Yeh, I saw that poor excuse for trolling mac users. I mean, even DJSynchro could do better, and he's incredibly boring/terrible at it.

[bynoe]

At last This is great news

[Tarekith]

Great news indeed. If they didn't require that stupid dongle, I'd be all over this. Used to love Wavelab, it's an incredible program.

[leedsquietman]

It's one program worth having a dongle for IMO as it has very little to compare, especially on Mac (Peak has it's strengths but is not in the same league IMHO, unless you buy the top end Pro XT, which costs double). Sonic Soundblade at $1500 is about the only Mac editor to compare.

http://www.sonicstudio.com/products/sb/ ... ade01.html

[Hermanus]

I'm glad for seeing companies which finally understand cross platform.

It always lamed to pay twice for the same soft, just because it will run on another platform

[Tarekith]

It's one program worth having a dongle for IMO as it has very little to compare, especially on Mac (Peak has it's strengths but is not in the same league IMHO, unless you buy the top end Pro XT, which costs double). Sonic Soundblade at $1500 is about the only Mac editor to compare.

http://www.sonicstudio.com/products/sb/ ... ade01.html

I'm waiting to see how much DDP export adds to the cost. Still amazed Wave Editor comes standard with DDP export and everyone else charges and arm and a leg for it.

[leedsquietman]

Yes, true. However, Wave editor is lacking a lot of other features and is painfully slow at converting mp3s according to Sound On Sound's review. Good value for money though.

I've read that Wavelab 7 has DDP import (can read DDP files). Not sure about export.

Many people believe Sonoris's DDP creator to be the best DDP available on the market anyway, and many say it's better and more reliable than Wave Editor and especially Peak's DDP.

http://www.sonoris.nl/catalog/ddp-creator-p-47.html

Even if you bought the DDP creator together with Wavelab 7, it should come out to less than Peak Pro XT.