boost your creativity with Tracktion Waveform 9. Welcome back to another
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I'm Radio Zane and in this video we'll look at Tracktion's contemporary music
production software Waveform 9. Tracktion claims that this is the most creative
inspirational and affordable digital audio workstation ever created and after
using it for a bit I think they might be right. First let's look at the different
purchase options that are available the basic option gives you the Waveform
software, Melodyne Essentials, Master mix, a loop pack, and this great VST
instrument called Collective. The basic option is just 109 dollars if you were
to buy Melodyne essentials on its own it would cost you 99 bucks, that alone makes
this worth the purchase of Waveform basic. If you already have a collection
of VST effects and instruments and you just want to record and make some great
music this is the option for you now let's look at option number two which
they call the Waveform Plus pack you get all the same stuff as the basic option
plus you get the DAW essentials plugins. This is a suite of VST plug-ins that's
worth $159. The Waveform Plus Pack option runs $159. If you want to start out with
a lot of Pro effects available to you without searching the internet for free
effects that may not sound as good this is the way to go. the final option
is the Waveform ultimate pack this gives you everything from the Plus Pack option
plus you get an extra loop pack and the very cool Biotek - VST instrument. This
instrument alone has a $199 value and is a great way to spark some creativity and
stand out in the music scene. The investment for the Waveform Ultimate
pack is $259 if you plan on using VST instruments a lot and you want
something that is very cool sounding that will help you stand out in the
music scene then the Waveform Ultimate Pack is the one to get. From what we've
seen so far what option do you think best suits your recording needs, let me
know in the comments below now back to the review the core features of Waveform
are the same regardless of the option that you choose so let's look at some of
those features now. First I want to talk about the chord track at the top of your
project you can set the chords for each bar or each section and by doing this
you can easily come up with a bassline or some chords or a melody using the
pattern generator on an instrument track so let's try this out we're gonna set
this project to be in the key of G in you do this by clicking over here then
you go to G we're gonna leave it at major for this you can change it to
whatever you like and now we go up to the chord track up here right click
insert new chord clip we're just gonna stretch this out for four bars and now
we're gonna do a simple chord progression we're gonna start out with
the one then go to the four and to the five and back to the four a very basic
chord progression you can see here we have a G major C major D major and back
to C major and we don't have any instruments in here to effect any sounds
we just sort of have a layout of what chords we want to use so to add an
instrument in here we just right click over on the track here add new plug-in
and we're gonna load up the very cool collective plugin that comes with every
version of Waveform 9 and we want a bassline for this alright we got the
sound we want and now we need some information in here so we're just gonna
drag a MIDI clip over into here and we're going to make it four bars just
like our song down here you'll see pattern generator you're gonna want to
click on that choose the style we set baseline that's what will click here and
you can even choose a bass preset and this is how the bass is going to be
let's start with simple base one and hear all that sounds that's pretty
interesting let's change that around say we don't like that one let's go to a
techno one maybe that's what we want let's hear that alright well that one's
alright we'll say we don't like the key that were and we don't like gee well
let's change the key of G back to C maybe we want C again and that's going
to change all the information in the MIDI clip so now we're in C let's listen
and you can hear that's a different sound now it's so easy to do and it's a
very cool and inspiring way to give your songwriting a bit of a boost and that's
just one of the very very basic uses of the chord track and pattern generator it
can get quite a bit more complex and cool we'll be covering it in more detail
in another video so be sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on that another
feature that you may like him Waveform especially if you're coming from
Tracktion T7 is the addition of the modular mixer you can now bring up a
mixer view and you can change how it looks depending on the number of tracks
you have and how you want it to look really this is a great feature for when
you're mixing a song if you only have a few tracks you may want each track to be
wider if you have a lot of tracks you may want this and if you have a huge
number of tracks you may want it super thin like that there is also stand alone
mixer view window and you can do the same thing in this mixer view window
and you can switch back and forth from the mixer just like in other DAWs that
you might have used in the past the next feature that we'll look at is
that Collective synth that we saw already this comes with all three
versions of traction Waveform 9 you can generate a very wide variety of sounds
with this synth and it includes over 600 presets to get you started we already
looked at it a little bit earlier it's a really cool VST instrument that they
include with waveform and if you pick up Waveform I'm sure you're gonna be using
it quite a bit so that is collective there are still many more features but
based on what you've seen so far what is the most compelling to you about
Waveform 9 let me know in the comments now continuing on Waveform allows you to
use unlimited tracks and effects the only limitation is your creativity and
your computer's power here are some other features to note in Waveform you
get professional time stretching algorithm automation support for a wide
variety of operating systems like Windows Mac Linux and even Raspberry Pi
you get a multi sampler instrument included to create your own sounds with
you get Melodyne essentials plugin which is an incredible pitch correction and
shifting software you've heard this software on numerous pro tracks and
you don't even know it making music and Waveform is easy and inspirational if
you're stuck in a creative rut and you need a bit of a creative boost give
Tracktion Waveform 9 a try you might just ditch your old daw for it
I know I've been using it exclusively since I got it what do you like the most
about Tracktion Waveform 9 let me know in the comments below also feel free to
link to any tracks that you've created using Waveform I'll be going over more
of the features in detail in other videos so if you want to see those be
sure to subscribe to the channel so you'll get notified when they're posted
for Simple Green Tech I'm Radio Zane and we'll talk soon