tracktion Waveform 9 Plus - Music Production Software Bundle (Download)

tracktion Waveform 9 Basic is a digital audio workstation, which offers music producers and artists a variety of efficient, empowering tools for sampling, composing, recording, editing, mixing, and mastering their songs. It features unlimited audio and MIDI tracks, powerful corrective and creative plug-ins, and a modular mixing environment with limitless DSP chains, all accessible from a consolidated single screen user interface.

Record audio and MIDI, drag-and-drop loops and samples, and automate parameters and plug-ins. Splice, comp, and fade audio. Work quickly with customizable keyboard shortcuts and programmable macros. Flexible MIDI composition tools are provided. With real-time chord players, arpeggiators, and MIDI pattern generators, a single MIDI note can trigger complex sequences. Waveform 9's MIDI learn capability makes using a MIDI controller simple and effective. Detailed MIDI editing and quantization is offered via clip editing and piano roll views.

Waveform 9 includes Melodyne Essential for pitch correction and creative pitch-shifting. Also featured is the Collective sampler/synthesizer with over 600 presets and the Multi-Sampler instrument, which lets you record directly from other apps (such as your web browser), and slice audio clips and convert them to MIDI. An array of effects plug-ins is provided for mixing. Third-party plug-ins can be used for VST, Linux VST, and Audio Units plug-in formats.

An expanded, modular mixer allows multiscreen setups and recallable DSP chains. Process the entire mix via drag-and-drop plug-in functionality in the Master section. The included Master Mix plug-in is specifically designed for stereo-bus EQ and dynamics processing.

Waveform 9 comes with the Alex Sanfilippo Imagina Loops drum loops pack and is compatible with Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Raspberry Pi.

The DAW Essentials Collection from tracktion is a bundle of 16 plug-ins designed for mixing and mastering audio signals in a digital audio workstation. It supports AAX, Audio Units, VST, and Linux VST plug-in formats, and is compatible with Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux systems.

The collection includes dynamics processors, such as the Compressor, Limiter, and Bus Compressor, designed to control levels and glue a mix together. An 8-band EQ plug-in provides flexible control over frequency content. Manage noise and competing instruments using the Gate/Expander and Ducker plug-ins. Reverb and several delay plug-ins are featured for time-based processing. There are also special effects plug-ins for lo-fi and modulation effects.

Melodyne Essential 4 from Celemony is pitch/time shifting software that provides the ability to tune and rhythmically realign notes that don't quite make the cut, either in monophonic or polyphonic situations. It's also useful for time-stretching and tempo-shifting entire mixes, if need be. The software is available in 32- and 64-bit usages, and works in stand-alone or plug-in modes.

With an adaptable single-window user interface, editing is intuitive, and is made even more flexible with the addition of ancillary browser and inspector windows. The audio is displayed in the form of "blobs" spaced out in time and representing the position and dynamics of individual notes. Simply move an audio note to a different pitch or a different position. Make notes longer or shorter, louder or softer. Conform notes to certain scale shapes or add new notes to source material, thereby creating melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic variations.

The Master Mix from tracktion is a stereo mastering plug-in offering multi-band dynamics processing and equalization for use on mix buses, submixes, or individual channels.

Its multi-band compression features three separate bands, each with customizable attack, release, gain, and crossover points. A contour edit screen provides easy modification of the compressor knee. The dynamics processors are capable of expansion or compression.

There are two separate 6-band parametric EQs, one before the dynamics section, and the other after. Graphic controls allow for quick EQ adjustments. To minimize noise and clipping, use the provided noise gate and soft-clip limiter.

The Master Mix has comprehensive metering for input, output, and gain reduction levels. All controls and meters are easy to access in the single-window user interface.