Jerry Tubb wrote on Mon, 29 March 2010 13:08 |
WaveLab users; tell us Mac guys ~why~ you like it, what it offers us.
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it's all i've ever used for mastering so i think a large part of why i like it is because i'm just really used to it. also i haven't tried most of the other mastering-oriented DAW's so i honestly don't know if there's anything about wavelab that isn't standard on every other program.
but i've always found it really intuitive, i click here and it does what i expect it to do, drag there, same thing. which sounds dumb, but whenever i'm in another DAW i get frustrated when i can't move around with the same ease and speed. you can navigate around the montage really quickly and precisely with just the mouse, and i haven't found another program that works the same way.
editing in the montage is a joy, again it's really simple and intuitive, i find that the way wavelab displays the waveforms 'makes more sense' than other DAW's i've tried. depending on where the mouse is positioned over the clips, you can split them, move them, adjust start and end points, adjust fade in/outs, adjust volume/pan envelopes, etc. again, that's mostly standard stuff, but simply being able to split clips without having to select some damn scissors tool i find invaluble...
it has tons of features i never use, but they don't get in the way of the stuff i do use. the interface is pretty stripped down and straightforward and i like that. most other DAW's seem really cluttered to me.
the smart bypass is cool, i don't use it as much as i probably should.
and you can do pretty much everything you need to do right in the montage...i read about people using one program to do all the processing/analog captures and a different program for sequencing/pq/isrc/burning and it just seems nuts to me.
MTCW, YMMV, OMGWTFBBQ, etc.