abacab Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 (edited) https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform-free "The world's best and only cross-platform, unrestricted, fully-featured Free DAW just got a major update… Introducing Waveform 12 FREE." Edited August 20, 2022 by abacab 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Noice. One of my fav daws. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mibby Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 @Fleer Does it do a particular thing really well? Or do you like the workflow or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 I like the MIDI pattern generators. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 Older video from Tracktion: 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 1 hour ago, mibby said: @Fleer Does it do a particular thing really well? Or do you like the workflow or what? Well, I love Tracktion’s sonic world. It all started with Retromod, Biotek (1&2) and the so-called Collective, but these last years they have been pretty amazing with synths like F.’em, Spacecraft, Hyperion, Abyss, Chop Suey and Novum. You can tell I’m pretty much enamored with Tracktion and their DAW made me forget Reaper. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug Rintoul Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Still haven't upgrade to Waveform 12 Pro. I wonder if there will be a sale on upgrades in the near future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 11 hours ago, Doug Rintoul said: Still haven't upgrade to Waveform 12 Pro. I wonder if there will be a sale on upgrades in the near future. There is usually a deal farther down the road, around the holidays, or just before the next version is announced, My last upgrade was to WF11 Pro. That's probably the last Pro upgrade for me for a while. Don't use it that much these days. It's only a back-up DAW for me that I originally bought for the pattern generators to create MIDI chord progressions for export. Studio One Pro now offers its chord tracks, plus there's now Scaler 2, neither of which were available when Waveform was first released, also having them both now makes it a bit of redundancy for me. Although it is so easy to make a chord progression from scratch in Waveform, I may dabble with Waveform 12 Free to see if there are any improvements. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 Didn’t get Scaler 2 myself. Waveform does it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fleer Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 A good vid on Waveform 12 Pro (and Free) that sold me. I particularly dig the Master Track feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 (edited) OK, just tried out the Waveform 12 Free. At first glance, the new UI improvements are nice, and the core program appears essentially the same as Pro, except that it's missing the Pro plugins as well as the chord and arranger tracks. Any plugins that you own will scan and be available. They have added a "master" track, and the global marker and tempo (time signature, tempo, & key) tracks are available as well. It also includes "Rompler" which has a usable palette of essential sounds, the 4OSC synth, a micro wave sampler, and micro drum sampler with 808 & 809 micro kits. Edited August 21, 2022 by abacab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asprog Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 (edited) Note that you can now upgrade/personalize Waveform Free with paid expansions: https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform-free-expansions Edited August 21, 2022 by asprog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitekrazy1 Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 fully-featured Free DAW - I'll take Bandlab. I've taken a ride on the Tracktion train ever since it came out but it's not for me even though I will probably mess with the free version. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Paul Young said: fully-featured Free DAW - I'll take Bandlab. I've taken a ride on the Tracktion train ever since it came out but it's not for me even though I will probably mess with the free version. Tracktion Waveform is probably the BEST cross-platform, fully featured FREE DAW... Edited August 21, 2022 by abacab 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esteban Villanova Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 The conparison chart says something like ‘advanced MIDI’ wasn’t included in the free version. Any idea what’s that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rsinger Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 I played with it a bit and the MIDI generator is kind of fun. Addictive Drums 2 didn't work for me, it doesn't render properly. If they fix AD2 and other VSTs I like work, I may get the MIDI Producer expansion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 12 minutes ago, Esteban Villanova said: The conparison chart says something like ‘advanced MIDI’ wasn’t included in the free version. Any idea what’s that? I took a look today, and as I mentioned above, chord and arranger tracks are missing from the free version. The chord track would allow your MIDI tracks to follow changes in the chord tracks, 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 1 hour ago, rsinger said: Addictive Drums 2 didn't work for me, it doesn't render properly. I dragged a 4-bar pattern from AD2 over to a Waveform track, and then used File > "Export: Render to a file", and successfully exported a wave, flac, and MP3 file. What settings were you using? I took the defaults... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ALC Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 3 hours ago, abacab said: Tracktion Waveform is probably the BEST cross-platform, fully featured FREE DAW... I would agree with this. Cubase and Live have bundled versions (with hardware) but no free versions. Studio One Prime doesn’t support 3rd party VSTs. A lot of very good free options (like Cakewalk) are Windows only. Waveform even supports Linux. So, if you want a common DAW for sharing projects that utilized VSTs, Waveform would be a reasonable choice (otherwise, if VSTs were not required, for pure audio recording, I’d go with Studio One Prime). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abacab Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 16 minutes ago, ALC said: if VSTs were not required, for pure audio recording, I’d go with Studio One Prime. And it's a rather affordable $99 upgrade from Prime to Studio One Artist, which does include VST support now. That's $50 less than the full Waveform Pro. And Artist is bundled with some PreSonus audio interfaces. Overall I think that Studio One offers a better workflow and feature set. And a user manual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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