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!

DarkWave Studio is a modular virtual studio that lets you load various virtual instruments and effects and connect them in a modular fashion.

DarkWave can load VST instruments and effects and it can also load machines using the DarkPlug API, which was custom made for DarkWave.

The program currently supports sound output via Windows Sound and ASIO. DarkWave natively supports both x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) versions of Windows with native binaries compiled for each platform. The x86 and x64 versions can each only load plugins for that platform, i.e. the x64 version only loads 64-bit VST and DarkPlug plugins

The following plugins are included with DarkWave: MIDI Input, ES SpatialVerb (Room Modelling Reverb Unit), ES Kick (Rave Kick Generator).

DarkWave Studio retails for $38, as a digital download.