Experimental Scene has released DarkWave Studio, a Windows app designed for the composition, synthesis and recording of digital music, as a free and open-source application.
Details below.
Features:
- Virtual Studio – Wire Machines Together As If You Were Using Real Hardware
- Pattern Editor – Quickly Create And Modify Musical Notes In A Piano Roll Interface
- Sequence Editor – Arrange Patterns Into A Song
- Multitrack Hard Disk Recorder – Record Multiple Tracks To Disk For Post Production
- 32-bit Floating Point Internal Audio Path – High Quality Sound Processing
- SSE and SSE2 Optimizations – Blazing Performance On Recent Processors
- Assembly Language Optimizations – Blazing Performance Even On 32-bit Systems
- Native 64-bit and 32-bit Platform Support
- VST PlugIn Support – Limitlessly Expandable With Virtual Instruments and Effects
- ASIO Audio Driver Support – Low Latency Output For Live Performance
Bundled PlugIns:
- MIDI Input – Play Instruments From A Music Keyboard
- ES Mixer – 8 Track Stereo Mixer With 2 Auxilary Tracks, For Mixing And Production
- ES DGenR8 – Synthesize Drum Beats With Roland TR-909 Flavour
- ES BassHead – Top Notch Virtual Analog Subtractive Synthesizer
- ES SpatialVerb – Realistic Reverb Effects With The Smoothest Sound
- ES Stomp – Synthesize That Classic Techno Thumping Kick Drum
- ES AntiAlias – Filter Digital Audio To Make It More Like Analog
- ES QuadDelay – For Trippy Echo Effects
Download here.
If you’ve used DarkWave Studio, leave a comment with your thoughts!
Now that it is open source, perhaps someone can port it to Intel Macs.