BTW Isn't Traction Waveform from Behringer and didn't they give it away for free with certain products of theirs?
Waveform has a long standing history. To my knowledge, some 15 to 10 years ago it was very compatitive and Mackie purchased it but didn't maintain it sufficiently. The founding programmer of Waveform went on for new projects and is the creator of the JUCE C#major frameworks, code libraries specialized on audio processing and nowadays the base for many DAW plugin developments - and ongoingly also for the Waveform DAW.
Finally Waveform was getting independent from Mackie again, and programmers have had a very hard time to get it back into shape and modernized. Eventually, with the latest release in spring 2024, Waveform13, this process largely succeeded. There are still glitches, here and there, but they continue to work very hard on bringing this DAW back to its former fame.
The implemented workflow appears unusual for many users coming to it with experience from other DAWs. However, by "unspoiled" newcomers it is very well received, because the workflow to work along a track from the left to the right appears quite intuitive. INPUT adjustmenty are located at the left of a track, then come all the clips holding the audio, midi, some fundamental effects like GAIN and alike and automation curves, and the right side of the track contains the signal chain of plugins and OUTPUT adjustments.
I came to it a year ago, because it initially was the ony DAW installing flawlessly on my Linux driven Laptop and carrying all functionality I was searching for. Ardour, Bitwig, Reaper, Fairlight inside Davinci Resolve, Qtracktor, LMMS, Audacity, none could compete.
Meanwhile I wouldn't like to exchange it for something else nomore. It came out that it was not simply a first choice concerning installation and concerning the provided range of functionality, but for me proofed to actually well "deliver".
Some of the stock plugins are not fully competitive anymore. They do their basic job well. That's it. The developers are obviously concentrating on first getting Waveform itself pushed up again - which is obviously a good decision. But this is not a problem. Stock functionality includes that you can build up sophisticated effect racks, and you can design yourself which parameters you want to immediatly see at the surface of the rack ("face plates"), so that you do not need to enter a rack for reaching to an often used parameter of some plugin in there. Back to the stock plugins, if searching for more sophisticated functionality you might want to check out the LSP plugins, then. Simply use them instead of the stock plugins, where needed. Of course, you can enhance Waveform with any other Linux compatible plugin, being it effects or instruments.
MIDI functionality and related editors are said to be quite complete, but I have no personal experience there.
Maybe check back with the Waveform community here:
https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=22
Good Luck!
Statistics: Posted by talby — Thu Jul 04, 2024 11:55 am