if you've been a fan of the free daw Tracktion t7 you're going to love this free
upgrade tracktion waveform free - waveform 11 is really going to up your
home studio music production game I'm Zane and on this channel I do weekly audio
tech tips tutorials and reviews to help you conquer the tech and unleash your
creativity just so you know I've included a link in the description to
tracktion's website so you can easily hop over there and grab your free copy of
waveform free now let's jump into the review so waveform 11 has been released
in two versions waveform free and waveform pro 11 the basics are the same
but there will be some differences in the access to various features let's
look at what you get with waveform free I'll be doing another video on waveform Pro
very soon you get unlimited tracks so you're free to create huge
compositions you get the piano roll which is a big upgrade over the MIDI
editing features of tracktion t7 you also get constant save technology so it's
automatically going to be saving your progress in the background just in case
you forget to and something happens you get the plug-in sandboxing feature which
is great if you have a plug-in that crashes instead of closing down the
entire program it just disables that plug-in you can try to restart the
plugin or remove it from your mix and continue creating this is so nice to
have especially if you're trying out some new free plugins that might not
totally be polished but even some premium plugins can crash from time to
time you get the simple but powerful 4OSC synth that features four oscillators
and some onboard effects and filters which we'll be checking out in a little
bit you also get waveform's new micro drum sampler where you can easily drag
and drop audio files into it and create your own drum kits this is a feature
that tracktion t7 could have really used and I'm so glad to see it in waveform 11
I'll also show you this plug-in in just a bit you do get the MIDI pattern
generator included in the free version but you don't get the chord track the
MIDI pattern generator create MIDI patterns for a variety of
instruments and styles to help you quickly create your music and that's
about it for the features now let's try some audio recording and some MIDI
editing just to see how that workflow is and how solid this program really is
this isn't a tutorial I will have those coming out very soon so be sure to
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now let's get back into tracktion waveform 11 free
so first let's record a quick guitar part into our project on the track you
want to record to click and choose the input that you're going to be recording
and then you can press the arm 4 record button on the track and if you play your
guitar you can see the levels show up in there if you don't hear it you may have
to turn on the live input monitoring by clicking right here I've got a guitar
amp sim on the track here so that's what you're going to be hearing that I'm
recording and when you're ready just hit the record button
it's a very nice and easy program to record too now let's look at some MIDI
editing I have this MIDI pattern up here and if you remember in t7 kind of just
use this as your piano roll and it was a little on the small side and kind of
awkward for editing well now in waveform 11 if you double click here it brings up
this nice piano roll and you can resize it however you like and you can resize
it to make it even bigger and you have some MIDI editing features easily
available to you like quantize transpose you have your velocity down here you can
easily click on notes move them around delete them if you need to whatever you
need to do with MIDI editing this makes it very easy so now that we have our
MIDI pattern here let's listen to the 4OSC synth
so that's a pretty decent free synth to get you started now let's open up the
micro drum sampler on another track and as you can see if I click here on the
preset section it comes with two kits you got a 808 and a 909 and those sound
pretty good but you can also create your own kit and this is very easy to do you
can download some drum hits and you can find those all over the internet for
free and then you just drag them and drop them into the pads it's that easy
and when you're done creating your kit you can go up here click again click
save as give it a name and you'll have that kit anytime you need it and of
course you can do some basic editing to each sample to really customize the kit
to your liking in my opinion waveform free is a huge upgrade over tracktion t7
let me know what you think of it in the comments below I will be releasing
tutorial videos on waveform free and waveform Pro 11 but for now click up
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