You just do everything (volume, pan, phase, whatever) right on the waveforms themselves. By that I mean there's no "arrangement" and no "mixer". I think one reason the Audio Montage is so easy to use/understand is because everything happens in just one window. She'd never worked on any DAW at all before that, but was comping away like a champ in no time. An example-when singer Kristina Johnson and I first started recording together, she watched me comp her vocals together for maybe a half hour before kicking me out of the chair and taking over. So what's so great about it? Well, it's just really simple and intuitive to use. This is just so much easier." And that was that, everything I've mixed or mastered in the last eight years has all been done in the Audio Montage. After just a couple hours of work, my overwhelming impression was, "Wow. I was checking out version 3 of WaveLab and messing around with the Montage, cutting up a stereo mix and adding a few overdubs. I was still pretty new to DAWs at the time, but I'd been working in Cubase for a year or so and had gotten a basic handle on things. For me, the Montage was kind of a revelation. But with version 3 came the Audio Montage, which I think they termed a "multitrack assembly environment" or something. I think WaveLab is really intended as more of an editing and mastering program, and that's how it started out in versions 1 and 2. I've been using WaveLab for so long that I don't even think about it anymore, and I'm finding it hard to describe why I'm so fond of it. So when Andy learned I'd been using WaveLab forever and asked me to do a review, I thought, "Awesome, now I can tell everyone about this cool program." But now that I actually have to sit here and write the thing, I'm stumped. Me: "Blah blah room mics blah compressors blah." Them: "Yeah, cool! What program do you use-Pro Tools?" Me: "Actually, I use a program called WaveLab." Them: *blank *. Seems like every time I get into a conversation about recording, it goes something like this.