in this video I'm going to look at some of the differences between tracktion
waveform free and waveform 11 pro I'm Zane from audiotechtv.com and on this
channel I do weekly audio tech tips tutorials and reviews to help you
conquer the tech and unleash your creativity
now tracktion waveform free is an incredible free digital audio
workstation so what could make the pro version worth investing in well I'm
going to go over 16 reasons why you might want to upgrade to waveform Pro
and for this video I'm just going to be looking at the basic version of waveform
Pro now first on the list is one of my favorite features this is the chord
track you can put your chord progressions up here or experiment with
some new progressions by setting your projects key and choosing things like 1
4 5 or 1 5 for whatever progression you want and then it's going to show you up
here the chords to use or you can just manually put your chords in plus you can
use the MIDI pattern generator and the MIDI that it generates will follow the
chords up top this is a cool feature that can help you to quickly create
music experiment with sounds or just keep you organized it also brings me to
the second item on the list which is audio can now follow the chord track to
get this to work you need to set the root note of your audio clip then enable
the auto pitch and it should follow along with your chord track and
everything else in your song another feature that's up in the same
area is the arranger track this feature allows you to easily move entire
sections or copy an entire section you can swap out a section with another one
or just delete the section completely not only does it help you to clearly
identify the different sections of your project but the arranger can also help
you with the actual arrangement fourth on the list is the inclusion of Celemony
Melodyne essential this is an easy to use pitch correction tool but in
addition to pitch correction you can also use it to create some interesting
vocal effects the next reason on the list is similar to the previous one this
is the inclusion of Antares auto tune access again you can use this to do
subtle Corrections or go extreme with it and
use it as an effect it has a different interface and way of handling pitch
correction compared to the previous one next on the list is the groove doctor this
feature allows you to easily get a groove from an audio file so you can
choose to quantize an audio clip to the grid or use it as a tempo map to align
MIDI or other audio to it so everything is on beat or you can extract the groove
from a drum loop or a piece of audio and apply that groove to your drum beat or
whatever you want the next feature will look at is edit groups this allows you
to group tracks together and control various parameters at the same time
things like volume mute solo recording movement on the timeline and more you
can also use edit groups with the groove doctor which can help to adjust multiple
tracks at the same time now let's look at one of the instruments that you get
with waveform Pro this is the subtractive synth this one gives you an
incredible classic analog sound with a large number of presets it has four
oscillators with ring modulators filters and more so let's give it a listen
now before I get to the next instrument on the list I just want to ask if you're
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now the next feature on the list is another instrument this one is
collective this is a sampler and synth that allows you to generate sounds from
a wide variety of instruments it includes over 600 presets you can also
load your own samples into collective to create your own instruments let's listen
to collective now next on the list are the new MIDI tools the arpeggiator can
help you add classic arpeggiation sounds the note repeat tool looks at your MIDI
note and repeats it based on the pattern selected the chord companion allows you
to trigger complex chords with just a single MIDI note the MIDI monitor tool
can help you with troubleshooting as it allows you to see all MIDI notes or
events as they happen the MIDI filter tool can allow you to play two
instruments using a single keyboard now next on the list is the integrated
artisan plug-in collection there are over 180 Effect plugins included in the
artisan collection these are based on the air windows plugins and each one
focuses on a specific task the controls are simple and will allow you to easily
dial in your desired effect now another timeline feature that can be
useful is the Edit overview this allows you to quickly navigate to a section of
your project if you have a bigger project this can be a very helpful tool
that can save you time the next feature is the quick action bar this allows you
to quickly accomplish various things like opening the mixer zooming in or out
adjusting the layout of the screen mean soloing tracks splitting clips and
so much more you can even add macros to the bar the speed of working with
waveform keeps getting quicker next up is the multi sampler this sampler will
allow you to record from pretty much any audio source including your web browser
I know I've seen in the comments from people asking me how to sample from
YouTube and use it within waveform this is probably the easiest way you can
easily import and slice audio and convert your audio to MIDI if you use
multiple displays you'll like this next feature it's the custom layouts various
panels can be undocked and placed into different screens personally I only use
a single display but I can see how this will be very useful if you do have
multiple displays this next feature can be great if you run into trouble or if
you have some questions about waveform Pro as you get email support if you come
across issues or have questions about waveform you can use email support and
get your answer direct from traction and they're pretty quick with responding if
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