| General Features |
Standard Edition |
Premium Edition |
| Supported driver models for audio recording and playback |
Windows MME |
Windows MME and ASIO |
| Maximum number of audio channels |
2 (stereo) |
8 (including 7.1 and 5.1 surround) |
| Maximum sample rate |
384 kHz |
384 kHz |
| Supported bit resolutions |
Up to 32 bit PCM or floating point |
Up to 32 bit PCM or floating point |
| Timer and input level triggered recording |
Yes |
Yes |
| Software emulation of phono preamplifier |
Yes |
Yes |
| Customizable toolbars and menus |
Yes |
Yes |
| Number of undo and redo levels |
Unlimited |
Unlimited |
| Ultra fast non-destructive editing engine |
Yes |
Yes |
| Standard cut, copy, paste and mix editing |
Yes |
Yes |
| Drag and drop editing |
Yes |
Yes |
| Support for labels and region markers |
Yes |
Yes |
| Cleaning Wizard that simplifies LP or tape to CD transfers |
Yes |
Yes |
| Different time formats such as sample index, SMPTE and bars and beats |
Yes |
Yes |
| Regions can be saved as separate files |
Yes |
Yes |
| Tabbed MDI user interface |
Yes (new) |
Yes (new) |
| Real-time Analyzers |
Standard Edition |
Premium Edition |
| Level meter with peak, peak hold and RMS indicators |
Yes |
Yes |
| Level meter modes |
K-20, K-14, K12 (new) and digital full scale |
K-20, K-14, K12 (new) and digital full scale |
| Customizable level meter ballistic settings |
Yes |
Yes |
| FFT Analyzer |
Yes |
Yes |
| Phase correlation meter |
Yes |
Yes |
| Big time display |
Yes |
Yes |
| Offline Analysis Tools |
Standard Edition |
Premium Edition |
| Fourier spectrum with adjustable frequency and amplitude ranges and optional logarithmic frequency scale |
Yes |
Yes |
| Fourier spectrogram with adjustable frequency and amplitude ranges |
Yes |
Yes |
| Wavelet (based on the Morlet wavelet) with adjustable frequency and amplitude ranges |
Yes |
Yes |
| Statistics |
RMS, DC offsets, loudest peak and more |
RMS, DC offsets, loudest peak and more |
| Automatic track splitting |
Yes |
Yes |
| Seamlessly Integrated Plug-In Suites |
Standard Edition |
Premium Edition |
|
Studio Clean for audio restoration (VST and DirectX) |
No |
Yes |
| Studio Time for time stretching and pitch shifting (DirectX) |
No |
Yes |
| Studio Necessities for mastering and sound design (VST and DirectX) |
No |
Yes |
| Plug-ins available in other VST or DirectX compatible host applications |
No |
Yes |
| Tools and Plug-Ins |
Standard Edition |
Premium Edition |
| Effect chain editor |
Yes |
Yes |
| Plug-in support |
VST and DirectX |
VST and DirectX |
| Real-time preview of the effects |
Yes |
Yes |
| Preset manager that allows you to store user presets for all effect |
Yes |
Yes |
| Freehand volume curves |
Yes |
Yes |
| Fade ins and outs with four differect curves |
Yes |
Yes |
| High quality sample format conversion |
Yes |
Yes |
| Dithering and noise shaping |
Yes |
Yes |
| Channel mixer for stereo image adjustments |
Yes |
Yes |
| Batch processing (files and complete folder structures) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Add sampler loops |
Yes |
Yes |
| Loop fader (cross-faded loops) |
Yes |
Yes |
| Test signal generator |
No |
Yes (new) |
| Multiband compressor (4 bands) |
No |
Yes |
| Audio Restoration |
Standard Edition |
Premium Edition |
| Click and crackle filters |
Yes, standard quality |
Yes, professional quality (Studio Clean) |
| Noise reduction |
Yes, standard quality |
Yes, professional quality (Studio Clean) |
| Adaptive denoising |
No |
Yes |
| Six band full parametric equalizer with graphical display of the frequency response |
Yes |
Yes |
| Equalizer filter types |
1 |
6 |
|
Resynthesis of lost high frequency components |
Standard quality |
Yes, professional quality (Studio Clean) |
| Automatically remove DC offsets |
Yes |
Yes |
| Stereo enhancer |
Yes |
Yes |
| Declipper |
Yes |
Yes |
| Visual monitoring of declipping process |
No |
Yes |
| Effects |
Standard Edition |
Premium Edition |
| Reverb |
Yes, standard quality |
Yes, professional quality (Studio Necessities) |
| Convolution reverb |
Yes (new) |
Yes (new) |
| Echo and delay |
Yes |
Yes |
| Multitap delay width feedback filtering and optional stereo bouncing |
No |
Yes |
| Flanger |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Phaser |
No |
Yes |
| Chorus |
Yes |
Yes |
| Guitar distortion |
Yes |
Yes |
| Dynamic processing with arbitrary mapping of the signal level |
Yes |
Yes |
| Adjustable soft-knee for each point in the level mapping curve of the dynamic processor |
No |
Yes |
| Limiter |
Yes |
Yes, professional quality (Studio Necessities) |
| Pitch change |
Yes, standard quality |
Yes, professional quality (Studio Time) |
| Time Stretching |
Yes, standard quality |
Yes, professional quality (Studio Time) |
| Harmonizer with up to four voices |
Yes |
Yes |
| File Formats |
Standard Edition |
Premium Edition |
| Supported audio formats |
WAV, AIFF (only loading), AAC (MPEG-4), MP3, OGG, FLAC, WMA, AU |
WAV, WAV64, AIFF (only loading), AAC (MPEG-4), MP3, OGG, FLAC, WMA, AU |
| Supported video formats for audio import |
MPEG, WMV, AVI or any other supported by DirectShow |
MPEG, WMV, AVI or any other supported by DirectShow |
| Tag information formats (title, artist, etc.) |
ID3Tag, RIFF, Vorbis (OGG and FLAC) |
ID3Tag, RIFF, Vorbis (OGG and FLAC) |
| Edit ACID information i wave files |
Yes |
Yes |
|
Audio playback button in file open dialog |
Yes |
Yes |
| Integrated file browser pane in the workspace |
Yes (new) |
Yes (new) |
| CD Projects |
Standard Edition |
Premium Edition |
| Integrated audio burning |
Yes |
Yes |
| PQ editing (indices and pause lengths) |
No |
Yes |
| Disc At Once burning (DAO) for gapless recording |
Yes |
Yes |
| Import audio tracks from CDs |
Yes |
Yes |
| FreeDB support |
Yes |
Yes |
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Supports buffer underun protection schemes |
Yes |
Yes |
| CD-TEXT |
No |
Yes |
| Cover Editor application for automatic CD cover and booklet printing |
Yes (new) |
Yes (new) |
| Save and load CD projects |
Yes (new) |
Yes (new) |
| Erase CD-RWs |
Yes (new) |
Yes (new) |
 
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