With the release of Waveform Pro 12, Tracktion has slightly reworked the product offering, removing the Basic, Standard and Extreme tags used for version 11.
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Using the mouse click plus modifier (CTRL/CMND) you can quickly spread the note timing of chords to create more realistic playback. This allows you to set the playback probability on a note by note basis, which we found was great for creating new ideas from existing beats.įinally, we love the new strum feature. For Step clips there is a new Probability option. Also in the MIDI editor you can set the MIDI controller data to follow notes, which is handy when moving notes. More powerful new features include a Randomize option for velocity, pitch, start point and note length. As you would expect, this follows the selected snap value. They’ve even added a MIDI knife tool for quick position specific note splitting either in the MIDI Editor or within MIDI clips in the Arrangement Panel. This allows you to view just the used notes or those in the global key. There are simple additions such as the Event List Editor, Drum Grid, and a particular DAW favourite of ours, MIDI fold. There’s no doubt MIDI options get a big uplift in Waveform 12, and we found both regular and advanced features add considerably to the user experience. With the inbuilt categories and favourites, the Search tab is now considerably more user friendly.Ĭreate more realistic sounds with the new MIDI strum feature (Image credit: Future) MIDI
The Browser is already a key feature of Waveform, but it’s been updated for Pro 12. The Master arrangement track is made visible via the visibility manager, making it easy to hide. Visible in both the Arrangement and Mixer panels you now have a quicker route for adding up to 16 processor modules to the mix bus. In a further move away from its modular roots, Waveform Pro 12 adds a dedicated Master track. We found this allows for a pretty mind boggling set of options, and with handy light and dark themes it’s easy to match the look to your working environment.
Editable options include colour saturation and highlights, and you can also select the primary and secondary accent colours. Waveform Pro 12 now expands the visual aspects with a new colour editor and over 20 preset colour schemes accessible from the Settings page or directly in the Welcome screen. We particularly like the floating panel visibility manager accessed via the eyeball icon in the top right corner Waveform’s panel-based workspace is pretty similar to many other DAWs, and – although not a new feature – we particularly like the floating panel visibility manager accessed via the eyeball icon in the top right corner. Tidy up your audio recordings with the new Remove Silence option (Image credit: Future) Design We found it very easy to use… and of course the whole process is non destructive. Further options allow you to tailor pre and post roll and fade in/out. Accessed directly in the arrangement area, you adjust the open and close threshold in the floating Remove Silence panel and can immediately see the effect that this has. Waveform Pro 12 adds a new advanced strip silence option. The new synth additions are all reasonably simple, with BassOSC’s single oscillator offering a decent choice of wave shapes that you can morph through, and the Rompler providing a good set of about 25 core instruments (grand piano, electric bass, Spanish guitar and so on). The six utility plugins include a new Spectrum analyser, Mid Side encode/decode, AB Switch, Mono switch, and two MIDI plugins – CC and Note Name. With its many advanced and excellent features, Studio One 5 is a serious contender. One of the best cross platform DAWs available and recently updated to version 12.
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