ExperimentalScene has released an early alpha version of DarkWave Studio, a modular virtual studio for Windows, similar to the tracker / modular studio Buzz. It allows you to load various machines such as virtual instruments and effects and connect them in a modular and straightforward fashion. DarkWave can load VST instruments and effects and it can also load machines using the DarkPlug API, which was custom made for DarkWave.
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 plug-ins for that platform, i.e. the x64 version only loads 64-bit VST and DarkPlug plugins.
DarkWave supports multiple processors, with an aggressively multithreaded audio path that can utilize multiple processors or cores by multithreading. Apparently the program soars on a Pentium D system with Windows XP 64-bit Edition.
The following plugins are included with DarkWave:
- MIDI Input
- ES BrainSynth (Virtual Analog Subtractive Synth)
- ES SpatialVerb (Room Modelling Reverb Unit)
- ES DrumKit (Virtual Analog 909)
- ES Delay (Echo Effect)
- ES Kick (Rave Kick Generator)
DarkWave Studio is available now as an alpha version for Windows and it is free.
