Waveform Free: Beginners Guide

The first in a series about Tracktion Waveform for beginners. We’ll start with the basics, using only the built-in plugins of Waveform Free to get you up and running as quickly as possible. This is probably the best free DAW on the market. There are a few slightly more advanced features in this video too that are simple to use and well worth exploring.

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0:00 Initial Setup
1:19 Creating a Project
2:16 Adding Plugins
2:57 4OSC Synth
3:28 Editing MIDI
4:33 Drums
7:32 Quick Drum Editing
9:19 4OSC Parameters
11:18 LFO1 into LFO2
12:08 Recording Guitar
13:00 Recording on a Loop
14:57 Show Takes
16:06 Scroll Wheel Functions
17:14 Recording Vocals
17:55 More Functions
18:25 Vocal Comping
19:10 FM Synth
20:01 Extra, Extra!

[Willem-The-Strange]

Finally! A Waveform tutorial on YT by someone other than a soul brother🙏I can't stand listening to soul brothers speak! You, on the other hand, have a nice, peaceful, educated-sounding voice, as do all Europeans✌

[opinogratis]

This video is translated into Spanish. I live in Argentina and I think Waveform is a kind of blessing for those of us who don't have a powerful PC, but do want to make music. I currently use Mixcraft 9 Pro, but WF12 is much lighter, faster, modern and free. Greetings and thanks a lot.

[Dj_Du]

Been struggling for weeks to figure this out. Best tutorial hands down. Thanks for the vid.

[ericsandrade]

Haven't finished the video, watching it slowly so i can follow step by step, but great so far, definetely helps with the learning curve

[marcusmiller]

Exactly what I was looking for - thanks for the great video!

[DobbsyLondon]

Just got waveform 12 recently, and a couple of the packs. This video is a good help to someone like me on their first daw.

[BrightAgeBeyond]

Hi, fellow Irishman here. Thanks very much for this video. I downloaded Waveform Free recently but have no experience with DAWs and don't really know where to begin. So this is very helpful for me. I've been making music for years but always put off using these tools because of the learning curve.

[LORDSofCHAOS]

i will admit this is one big step for waveform for sure

[rose.forests]

i have no idea what you are doing in any part of the video

[Life-Glug]

Thanks for this video. I've had waveform for a while and I like it but I've been struggling to get things done with any kind of flow. I like that you introduced keyboard shortcuts, short loops and takes early on. I look forward to your video on the 4OSC

[alseveron]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. This was so helpful to me. Liked and subscribed...

[frakfeem]

Good video. I haven't tried waveform for quite a few years but it looks like it's matured well.

[victormontes]

I added the 40SC synth and I can't hear anything from the instrument, can someone help?

[FondueBrothers]

Hi Bren. I'm a long term Cubase user and I still use it for mixing/mastering my tunes, but a couple of years ago I dowloaded a free version of waveform 8 and was amazed by how good this DAW is for quick experimentation. I'm now have Waveform 12 pro and It's great for knocking up quick ideas. Cubase is very conservative by comparison.
Keep up the great work.
PS: would it be possible to do a video on how to catalogue, Tag store and find audio and midi loops, one shots, sampler instrument files etc? I have a hard disk full of snare hits, bass loops, stabs, phrases and midi files but I'm having real problem locating them when I need to audition/use them.
Bernie.

[linebreaker]

Hello sir, I have a small trouble in waveform 12:
I am afraid that I accidentally changed few presets inside of 4OSC plugin and then I saved the changes. Please help me to reset the presets to their initial style.

[richardpress]

Plus have you tried Windows vsts on Linux waveform via Carla linvst or ya ridge? Curious if I can go back to linux

[TG_]

My midi is connected but sound wont come out

[Loganine-iq]

Hello i was wondering if there was a way to record inputs from effects live like i have Love-Fi 2 and i want to be able to edit and play the “living things” atmospheric noises live and edit the sound throughout the track live without using a midi controller if that makes sense ill try and answer questions also if you want i can stream on discord so i can show you what im talking about

[reubenwilliams]

this is a great video for me because i have been searching for something like this for a beginner, I'm a disjocky and i will like to start increasing the energy and remixing most of my old tracks in my library and at the same time start producing my own songs.
what is your advice for me?

[haneycr]

Any idea why ASIO doesn't have any input or output options when I select it? I'm on windows 11.