Released in the late 2000s, represented a significant evolutionary step for the platform. It was the bridge between the early days of Red Book audio CD burning and the modern era of high-resolution, podcast-heavy, broadcast-standard audio production. Even years after its release, WaveLab 6 remains a topic of discussion among audio purists, not just for what it added, but for how it solidified the "WaveLab workflow."
Software moves fast, and Steinberg has released several versions since WaveLab 6 (with WaveLab 11 being the current standard as of wavelab 6