As some of you know, Wavelab's workflow is a bit... unconventional. When working in Audio Montage mode, instead of saving all the plugins with the montage (eg. the master session file), you save a master section preset for each project. So when I open a mastering session, I first open the montage which contains the sequenced tracks, markers, metadata and so on, and then open the appropriate master section preset which contains the plugins and their settings.
Well, today I opened a session that I was waiting to be paid to finish it up and burn the master discs, only to find that the master section preset library was completely empty. What the fuck? Oh well, maybe Wavelab has decided to just change the directory. Let's see... No. Empty. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. FUCK.
But wait, I'm an intelligent human being, so I back up my whole system every time I finish something! I'll just fire up Time Machine, find the preset directory and copy the presets, and the day is saved! Right? No. All the presets from the day before are there, but it seems Wavelab has deleted all the presets upon quitting the last time I worked on this session, so only this album's presets are permanently gone. FUCK.
What does this mean in practice? I'm supposed to send out a finished master of an album, and I have lost all the sonic processing due to the nihilist coders of Steinberg not having their shit together. FUCK.
Gladly, I have all the mastered tracks printed as finished WAV files since I sent the first three tracks for approval before, so I can consider myself a lucky bastard for not only printing those three tracks but the whole album. I can send out the WAV's as per usual, and I can save the masters by importing all the processed files into the montage, but yeah, it's a lot of unnecessary work for me.
Seriously, this piece of shit, supposedly professional, 544 software has been a nightmare from day one. I've had serious stability issues (the only program I've EVER had any with, and I use a ton of different apps like Bias Peak, Pro Tools, Adobe CS4 Design Premium suite and so on) which were only fixed with the latest update, graphic glitches with plugins and so on... When I dish out cash like this, I expect more.
Now... Where could I find three grand to switch to Sequoia? :zombie:
Well, today I opened a session that I was waiting to be paid to finish it up and burn the master discs, only to find that the master section preset library was completely empty. What the fuck? Oh well, maybe Wavelab has decided to just change the directory. Let's see... No. Empty. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. FUCK.
But wait, I'm an intelligent human being, so I back up my whole system every time I finish something! I'll just fire up Time Machine, find the preset directory and copy the presets, and the day is saved! Right? No. All the presets from the day before are there, but it seems Wavelab has deleted all the presets upon quitting the last time I worked on this session, so only this album's presets are permanently gone. FUCK.
What does this mean in practice? I'm supposed to send out a finished master of an album, and I have lost all the sonic processing due to the nihilist coders of Steinberg not having their shit together. FUCK.
Gladly, I have all the mastered tracks printed as finished WAV files since I sent the first three tracks for approval before, so I can consider myself a lucky bastard for not only printing those three tracks but the whole album. I can send out the WAV's as per usual, and I can save the masters by importing all the processed files into the montage, but yeah, it's a lot of unnecessary work for me.
Seriously, this piece of shit, supposedly professional, 544 software has been a nightmare from day one. I've had serious stability issues (the only program I've EVER had any with, and I use a ton of different apps like Bias Peak, Pro Tools, Adobe CS4 Design Premium suite and so on) which were only fixed with the latest update, graphic glitches with plugins and so on... When I dish out cash like this, I expect more.
Now... Where could I find three grand to switch to Sequoia? :zombie:
