DarkWave Studio is a free Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) / modular virtual music studio for Windows. You can easily use the built in sequencer, bundled DarkPlug machines and third-party VST effects and VSTi instruments to create music.
Version: 5.9.4DarkWave Studio is a free Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) / modular virtual music studio for Windows.
License: Free
Operating System: Windows
Homepage: www.experimentalscene.com
Developed by:
You can easily use the built in sequencer, bundled DarkPlug machines and third-party VST effects and VSTi instruments to create music.
DarkWave Studio allows the connection of machines in an ad-hoc fashion. The installer ships with both a 32-bit and 64-bit version.
DarkWave consists of the following main parts:Studio (Work With Machines) Pattern Editor (Create Pieces Of Music) Sequencer (Arrange Patterns Into A Song)
Multi-track Hard Disk Recorder (Master Your Music)
The following plugins are included with DarkWave:ES Audio Input (Allows For Input From Sound Card) ES Arpeggiator (Play Arpeggios With A MIDI Keyboard)
ES ControlChange Mapper (Map Control Change Events From One Index To Another) ES MIDI Input (Use MIDI Keyboards With DarkWave Instruments) ES MIDI Output (Sequence External MIDI Synthesizers) ES AntiAlias (32x Digital Oversampling) ES SpatialVerb (Room Modelling Reverb Unit)
ES Stomp (Rave Kick Generator) ES BassHead (Subtractive Virtual Analog Synthesizer) ES DGenR8 (Virtual Analog Drum Machine) ES QuadDelay (Echo And Chorus Effect) ES Mixer (8 Track Mixer With 2 Auxillary Tracks)
ES Distort (Basic Overdrive Distortion Effect) ES Crunch (Limit Bits Per Sample Anywhere From 16 To 1 Bits) ES StereoSplitter (Split An Input Stereo Signal Into Left And Right Output Mono Signals)
ES StereoJoiner (Combine Left And Right Input Mono Signals Into A Single Output Stereo Signal) ES Scope (View Generated Waveforms In Realtime) ES Control Monitor (View Control Messages) ES DownStepper (Sample Rate Reduction Filter)
Features:Highly Optimized 64-bit Double Precision Precision Audio Processing Very Small Download Low Latency ASIO And DirectSound Audio Output Support SSE2 (Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data Extensions) Optimizations.
A portable ZIP archive version is available from www.experimentalscene.com.
Version 5.9.4: Removed advertising from installer. Portable ZIP archive version now available from www.experimentalscene.com.
Version 5.9.3: Added a CPU usage monitor to the machine container. It shows a CPU use graph and can be clicked like a button to pause the machine's processing.
Version 5.9.2: Updated installer with new code signing certificate.
Version 5.9.0: Added a VST cache to speed up program start. Fixed problem with ASIO4ALL 2.14. Fixed some problems with certain VST plugins. Improved DirectSound stability.
Version 5.8.5: Added 'Play Start' and 'Play End' arrows in the Sequence Editor to allow limiting playback to a small area of the sequence. This allows for easier editing of small parts of a larger track.
Version 5.8.0: Updated installer with new code signing certificate.
Version 5.7.6: Better fonts in rename dialog and project info. Updated installer with new code signing certificate.