Tracktion Waveform Pro 12 Upgrade from Waveform 11, Recommended Bundle, Download
The most creative, inspirational and affordable digital audio workstation ever created.
Creative Tools
Waveform is a rapidly evolving application specifically designed for the needs of modern music producers. Specializing in creative and inspirational workflows and avoiding features not explicitly needed allow the app to remain surprisingly fun and intuitive.
What's New in 12
Contemporary Music Production Software
Fresh UI Makeover
The User Interface has undergone a complete refresh, offering new light and dark schemes that perfectly complement Waveform's bold, high contrast new look.
Improved Quick Actions
Multiple quick action bars can now be stacked in the arrange window with a simple click of a button. Further improvements come in the form of visual icons which are now on hand and can be added with a right-click.
Entirely New BrowserThe browser has been completely overhauled offering intuitive new ways to browse, tag and favourite. A new categorised approach allows you to select and search by: Plugins, Presets, Racks, Samples, Clips, Tracks or All. Making the search experience both cleaner and more efficient.
Brand New BassOSC InstrumentCreate the perfect sub effortlessly with the brand new BassOSC synth. A minimal, yet carefully laid out UI allows for quick adjustments while a wave type and drive knob are on hand for character and grit.
Guitar Dual Guitar IR
Dual Guitar IR is a low-latency, dual Impulse Response (IR) convolver developed as a cabinet simulator for guitar and bass amplifiers and pre-amplifiers.
The single Guitar IR plugin is less CPU intensive and is offered to suit live performance, simple process chain simulations, and can easily be loaded onto other instruments for interesting acoustic effects.
Utility Plugins
Waveform 12 also adds 6 of the most commonly requested utility tools, including:
An AB Switch - A convert to Mono tool - a Mid/Side splitter - a Spectrum analyser - Plus MIDI CC and a MIDI Note Name plugin.
15 Refreshed Audio Effects
Waveforms' entire collection of stock DSP plugins has been refreshed, bringing much-improved performance, functionality and visual appearance.
Advanced MIDI
Waveform 12 adds powerful new filters to its advanced MIDI editor, including Notes in Key, Notes in use and named notes - making composition and editing faster than ever.
MIDI Randomisation
In Waveform 12 Velocity, pitch, note start and note length can all be randomised via dedicated popup windows. Simply choose between a more human or more random performance and then dial in the strength control to taste.
New Drum Grid Mode
Turbocharge your programming with a drum centric alternative to the Piano Roll. Mouse clicking to enter and reposition drum hits is now far quicker and more intuitive.
Probability Added to Step Clips
Breath new life into basic patterns by adding and adjusting probability per note. Simply raise or lower the probability of a note being triggered via a slider and witness ever-evolving loops unfold before your eyes.
MIDI StrumInject instant movement and realism with MIDI strum. Simply select chord(s) in the midi editor and simply command drag to create a strum performance.
Rewritten Audio Engine
Our developers have painstakingly and completely rewritten the audio engine resulting in greatly reduced CPU load, perfect PDC in all routing configurations and better support for modern machines with a higher number of CPU cores.
Added Controller SupportController integration has been greatly improved with added support for a selection of ICON, Behringer, Presonus and Native Instruments controllers - with more be added all the time.
Plugins
Add up to 16 plugins on the master bus (up from 4)
New & Updated Effects
Compressor
Gate
Limiter
Chorus
Phaser
Stereo Delay
Distortion
Non Linear Reverb
Plate Reverb
Natural Reverb
Impulse Response
Phaser
DJ EQ
DJ Filter
Single band EQ
Three band EQ
Eight band EQ (with adjustable slope and mid/side mode)
Guitar IR
Instruments
Bass Synth Rompler
Micro Sampler
Utility
AB Switch
Mono Mid/side splitter
Spectrum analyser MIDI CC MIDI Note Name
Features
UI
New color editor to adjust UI appearance (with 20+ presets)
Bolder, higher contrast UI
Unified properties and actions panel
New dedicated actions side panel Master channel strip added to mixer Added new plugin buttons to arrange track mixer area
Option to show full length loop markers
Added master track to arrange and mixer areas
Improved arrange track plugins layout
New Engine
Completely rewritten audio engine Perfect PDC in all routing configurations Reduced CPU load (25% typical)
Better support for modern machines with a high number of CPU cores
Control Surfaces
Added support for Icon control surfaces, Presonus Faderport, Korg Nanokontrol, Komplete Kontrol S/M/A, Behringer XTouch Mini/Compact/One, Arturia Keylab
Control surfaces can trigger actions in current quick actions bar
MIDI
Fold: notes in key, notes in use, named notes Improve MIDI zooming on first use Added MIDI shortcuts: playGuideNotes, midiNoteUp, midiNoteDown, splitNotes3, selectNextNote, selectPrevNote, selectNotes
Add knife MIDI Typing: floating onscreen MIDI keyboard Added ability to drag MIDI clips and MIDI clip presets into existing clips
Added scroll bars to MIDI editor Basic hotkeys like scroll and zoom now affect MIDI editor if it has focus
Added drum grid to MIDI editor
Added MIDI event list editor
MIDI CC now follows notes when moved/copied Added randomisation to velocity, pitch, start, length and CC value
Improved CC editing, can be copied and pasted between types
Added MIDI strum. Drag notes with shift
Quick Actions
Multiple rows of quick actions can now be added to the arrange window Icons can be added to buttons for quick visual reference
New Engine
Completely rewritten audio engine
Perfect PDC in all routing configurations
Reduced CPU load (25% typical)
Better support for modern machines with a high number of CPU cores
Drum Samples & Micro Drum Sampler: Multi Sampler
Add clear, icon and color to pad context menu
Added two FX buses
Smart Lists
Smart lists contain automatically populated content
Edits and Projects can now be consolidated to import files outside the project folder "Packs" contain files from installed content packs
"Edit" contains files in the the current Edit "Project" contains files from the Project the current Edit is from "Recent" contains recently used plugins
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Retromod Instruments
The Retromod series of instruments put the world's most revered hardware synthesizers at your fingertips. And as the name suggests, this is more than just a collection of sample-based imitations-the goal of this series is to capture the soul of classic hardware synthesizers and push them in new directions, creating sounds simply unachievable from the source hardware.
Imagina Loops
Tracktion and Imagina Production Recording Studio have joined forces to create a massive construction kit of drum loops that can be used for a wide range of musical genres. Utilizing Tracktion Waveform's revolutionary 'Track Loop' format, this l