Music producers, artists, and musicians looking for a creative, inspirational, and affordable digital audio workstation will be thrilled with tracktion Waveform Pro 12, which offers a variety of efficient, empowering tools for sampling, composing, recording, editing, mixing, and mastering their songs.
Waveform Pro 12 offers a variety of updates and new features including an updated user interface, a new smart browser, a reworked audio engine, advanced MIDI features, hardware contoller support, and a ton of workflow enhancements. The UI welcomes the return of customizable Color Editing with bold, light, and dark modes, plus a unified actions and properties panel, and a dedicated master track in both the arrange and mix windows. The updated smart browser provides speed and agility while accessing plug-ins, presets, racks, samples, clips, tracks, and more.
Waveform Pro 12 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 Pro 12 includes the DAW Essentials collection with 16 contemporary FX plug-ins, Melodyne Essential for pitch correction and creative pitch shifting, as well as Antares Auto-Tune Access for pitch correction and vocal effects. 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), slice audio clips, and convert them to MIDI. Third-party plug-ins can be used for VST, Linux VST, and Audio Units plug-in formats. Waveform Pro 12 includes a single Imagina Loops drum loops pack and is compatible with Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Raspberry Pi.
- A refined new look featuring bold new UI schemes and a fully customizable color palette
- Hundreds of workflow improvements sprinkled throughout the app
- A dedicated Actions Panel and brand-new Smart Browser give rapid access to your most used plug-ins, presets, and samples
- Powerful new plug-ins including 15 audio FX, 6 handy utility plug-ins, BassOSC synth, and a Dual Guitar IR
- A completely rewritten audio engine greatly improves CPU performance
- MIDI enhancements including fold modes, randomization, probability, and MIDI Strum
- Added support for a selection of ICON, Behringer, PreSonus, and Native Instruments controllers.
- A wealth of new content including genre-specific drum kits, MIDI/Step clips, and Track Loops
- Includes DAW Essentials Collection, Collective Synth, 1 Imagina drum loop library, Antares Auto-Tune Access, Melodyne Essential, and 1 year of free unlimited distribution (Emerging Tier) with TuneCore
- Waveform Pro 12 brings huge improvements to both UI and Workflow, including an entirely new Smart Browser, additional plug-ins and effects, a cutting-edge audio engine, advanced MIDI features, hardware-controller support, and hundreds of updates throughout the software.
- The UI welcomes the return of a customizable Color Editor, offering bold new light and dark modes in its visual palette. The Actions and Properties panel have been unified to reclaim screen space, and a dedicated Master Track has been added to both the Arrange and Mix windows.
- The new Browser has been designed for speed and agility giving direct access to Plug-Ins, Presets, Racks, Samples, Clips, Tracks, or All. Favorites can now be tagged and color coded, while Smart Lists allow Edit and Project items to be previewed and consolidated. Plus, the Browser can be used as the pop-up plug-in selector with live text entry.
- Waveform 12 includes a brand-new BassOSC instrument, fifteen refreshed Audio Effects, six handy Utility plug-ins, and a low-latency Dual Guitar IR. The IR can be used to accurately simulate guitar and bass amplifier cabinets to aid live play, tracking, mixing, and more with content from the DAW.
- MIDI Fold options make editing easier than ever before, and the new Event List Editor helps users to keep tabs on their work. The Drum Grid mode offers a drum-centric alternative to the Piano Roll, while deep randomization options are on hand to humanize velocity, pitch, note start, and note length. Step Clips now have probability to breathe life into basic patterns, whilst MIDI Strum injects instant movement and realism.
- A completely reworked audio engine dramatically boosts CPU performance, allowing for an array of new audio enhancements including powerful podcast and dialog-editing tools like Advanced Strip Silence.
- To further bolster its capabilities, Waveform 12 now includes the entire DAW Essentials Collection of 16 contemporary FX plug-ins. Plus, users will benefit from exciting new partnerships with companies such as TuneCore and ICON.
- Plug-in macros for controlling any number of parameters from any number of devices
- Plug-in faceplates for creating your own faceplates for your favorite plug-ins
- Racks 2.0 stacked view allows you to build limitless DSP chains and save/recall them as presets
- Six new modifiers: LFO, Breakpoint, Step, Envelope Follower, Random, MIDI Tracker
- Chord track allows you to visually track the musical progressions throughout your arrangement.
- Track loops for saving multitrack data along with a stereo preview clip
- Track presets
- Quick render
- Unlimited audio tracks
- Unlimited MIDI tracks
- Video sync
- Keyboard shortcuts with user scripts
- Clip editing
- Audio comping
- Time-stretch algorithm
- Advanced audio comping
- Freeze-point technology
- Time warping
- Pitch fades
- Clip layer effects
- Clip grouping
- Clip linking
- Track tags
- Preview edits
- Enhanced step sequencer
- MIDI learn
- MIDI pattern generators allow you to dive into chord progressions with matching bass lines, melodies, and arpeggios
- Real-time MIDI chord player for creating complex chord progressions with just one finger
- Detail MIDI editor
- Modular mixing environment with multiscreen setups
- Suite of built in FX including EQ, dynamics, reverb
- Master Mix stereo mastering plug-in
- Latency management
- Enhanced automation
- Hardware insert support
- Crashed plug-in assistant
- Variable color schemes
- Quick zoom
- Visual plug-in selector
- Animated panels
- Slimline transport bar
- VST, Audio Units, and Linux VST plug-in compatibility
- In-app marketplace
- Free online support
- Free online video tutorials
- Integrated setup assistant
- Multibrowser sync
- Compatible with Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, and Raspberry Pi
- BassOSC is a powerful yet simple to navigate subtractive synthesizer.
- Subtractive: Create classic analog sounds with a modern spin with 4 oscillators, each with ring modulator, 2 filters, a drive stage inbetween, and lots of modulation possibilities.
- Collective: Powerful sampler and synthesizer capable of generating a wide variety of instrument sounds.
- Auto-Tune Access: Provides the legendary real-time pitch correction and vocal effects that have launched countless hits. Auto-Tune Access delivers the core Auto-Tune features with a simple and intuitive interface.
- Melodyne: Work with audio in an entirely new way. Notes, phrases, rhythms, and noises in Melodyne become raw material that you can stretch, reshape, layer, and transform—virtually at will.
- Elastique Pro: Time-stretch algorithm by Z-Plane is the industry leading algorithm for advanced audio time stretching.
- Drum Sampler: Fast and easy way to quickly create your own drum kits and start programming.
- Multi-Sampler Instrument: The Multi-Sampler instrument that goes beyond the standard sampler features. The optimized user workflow and integration within the DAW helps you create your own sounds and is faster and more intuitive. The sampler can record directly from other apps—such as your web browser—which means sound sources are literally unlimited. Fans of ReCycle will love the one button audio clip import/slice and convert-to-MIDI tool.
- Alex Sanfilippo Drum Loop Collection: A collection of unique, full multitrack drum loops, recorded in one of Italy’s finest studios. Alex Sanfilippo specializes in clean and compact sound instantly adaptable to a multitude of styles. His personal preference is rock with a flair, for originality that keeps his sound fresh and inspirational.