Product Reviews by KVR Members

This tuner, like rest of software from Melda is not really free. Its adware. It annoys you with red banner asking for 30 USD. Also screen UI resizing and antialiasing is disabled.

Tuner can do basic mono and poly tuning. Authors are quite optimistic about poly tuning - they have in configuration space for 8 note polyphony. In reality poly tuner has problems even with 2 bass sounds.

Basic tuner has high accuracy mode but because it displays just 1 decimal digit in Hz, I can't cross check it with other free tuner GTune and my KORG tuner. You can configure stabilisation time - 100ms by default.

Included is also volume meter. It takes too much space on the screen and its not clear what kind of measurement is used - so pretty much useless, we have good meters in DAW already.

UI is not nice at all, it is using Accordion for configuration. Why not tabs? It takes so much screen space just for tuner.

Verdict: UNINSTALL

Nothing fancy, just basic Tuner.

Its very consistent across entire sound range but its max +0.2 HZ ~ +1 cent off. Sometimes less but never goes more up then +0.2 HZ. I think its good for free tuner.

It displays frequency with 2 decimal points while another free tuner from Melda just 1 decimal point.

You can definitely use it. It will do the work.

Its 32-bit application over 20 years old, unmaintained.

Please use alternative products such as from Melda Productions.

I don't think that this software will provide best value for your spend money. While it has loyal user base, it's still very small after lot of years spent on development. Released free current version (instead of 2 years old) attracts new people for sure. Will they stay?

while waveform has lot of features you would expect from today DAW execution of these features it's not good. It crashes quite often - for example during project load, I have to try several times until project loads without DAW crash. This is not something you want to work with. Sandbox with plugins crashes often - all your VST will die, hopefully you saved your work. Since it's not major DAW plugin developers won't test on this platform and there will be always plugins crashing more then in other DAW.

GUI is very unintuitive, things which you expect be at one place are scattered. I am not against minimalist GUI design, it's just much harder to execute it well. You can certainly adapt but why, we have way better DAW for the same amount of money.

software is not suitable for mixing, but for composing I got surprised, you can do some things faster then in other DAW.

With pro standard version you will get some bundled instruments. But nothing exciting there, just Biotek synth is pretty unique. Repackaged Air Windows VST with GUI, good attempt. Antares Auto tune and melodyne included.

You will get sampled Moog synths. Quite lot of presets. Navigating to find what you want is time consuming. I am not huge Moog fanboy, so no comments on sampling quality.

Problem is that collection quite large about 6 GB. Can't tell you exact number their marketplace is down. For me that amount of disk space can be better invested and sampled Moog replaced by virtual analog.

It's free DAW with ability to use an external VST. Not only that GUI it's quite nonstandard, it's difficult to work with. I understand author desire for minimalist GUI, I am not against that idea but it's execution is not good.

Stability is bad, last version crashing often and no update in last 4 months. While it can run VST in box so faulty VST will not kill DAW, box often crashes with all your VST running. Same VST run in other DAWs without crashing. Complaining at forum is all what people can do. Developers do not care, do not even think about buying Pro version and giving them money.

DAW itself has pretty impressive feature set, including macros. Provided stock VST effects do not sound well, but we are probably used to it. You can buy essential effect pack or it's included in pro version. It will have same sound but you get much nicer GUI and more configurable options. You will also get few instruments as you can expect. Some of them do not sound too bad, but they are pretty generic and since there are no community shared patches for them, just ignore them.

DAW is designed for composing. It's not bad for that. For mixing should be avoided, authors can't even deliver decent VU meter and volume slider with numbers. While I understand focus on composing, You should not try to deliver worst mixing experience in industry. Volume slider and meter are in track area shared with instruments and inserts. If you add more stuff like 2 inserts area will shrink into two rows and guess what - volume slider and meter shrinks too making any reading of volume levels very difficult. There are lot of problems related to non intuitive UI which surface during mixing. Do not ever think you will record and mix here. If you want to mix for free Cakewalk will do well, it has amazing channel strip.

Final verdict: After many years Waveform user base is still very tiny, sell this product to other developers, these guys are not going to make it. It has features and few interesting ideas but it's not executed well. Don't ever think buying Pro version.

This stuff is actually quite good sounding. It produces LoFi distorted sound. You can't go wrong with it.

For perfection it would need ADSR envelope with initial delay and MIDI note activation or at least sidechain with gate activation. LFO syncable to MIDI or sidechain would help a lot as well.

This unique Product is definitely capable of producing good moving sounds just by fiddling around with controllers. While Hyperion can do these kinds of sound well, some time is needed to program patches.

This one is for people with artist mindset. It feels more like game then traditional synth. It will work on live stage as well. Also it's very good for relaxing after all that hard DAW work.

it's pretty unique synth. It's expensive for what it does - it should cost half.

GUI is not standard synth GUI you expect to see. While it certainly looks unique, you often get lost. It would be helpful to have standard synth skin.

synth can generate distorted sounds very well, definitely one of top synths in this area.

But, do you actually need it? There are lot of plugins distorting sound. It will shrink possible user base to very few people who likes designing sound a lot, want detailed control over all aspects and are ok with price. Good luck developers finding these.

There are similar synths like that - unique but they have same problems like this synth: close to impossible to get patches because user base is small, cost too much for something you will not use too often.

Overall I like Tracktion strategy to distribute unique good sounding synths: F em, Hyperion and this. But I do not think that they will ever get more mainstream. Today good sounding is not enough, if we take top 20 VST synth vendors they all have good sounding synths. People buy synth because others talk about it and share patches. Tracktion synths has no such community and Tracktion is not pushing hard to build it. Putting good sounding synth on own web is not enough. It will keep single developer behind it alive but that's about it.

This is very interesting project. It's not replacement for Reaktor. You can't build custom synths and custom blocks here. User base is much smaller compared to Reaktor and there is no site where users can share their patches. Also no SDK for writing/porting own modules.

it's modular synth with layers and polyphony, you build your own synth from provided components. Some components have features not found often in main stream synths. GUI is easy to work with, I like wires more then in Reaktor; more complex patches are easier to build then in competitive products (cherry audio, soft tube, VCV rack).

Sound is nice, but there is no wave table synth with ability to load surge, vital, serum wave tables. You can only morph between waves. For sound design it's not a big difference but people would like to import their tables. It should be viewed as digital synth, not analog emulation. It has some filters inspired by vintage analogs but sound is nowhere close as other vendors (KORG, NI, Air Music tech) can do.

overall sound is nice. If you build own sounds and feel limited by number of LFO, envelopes in standard synth you will like this product. It can do FM4 synth with multiple algorithms but there is no DX7 compatible mode you can turn on and load half of DX7 patch.

Interesting feature is that this synth can generate MIDI CC messages. You can use it for example as fancy envelope generator.

I noticed that during Black Friday lot of people purchased competing modular synths for 40 USD. I can understand it - it will be unlikely your daily work horse synth (no downloadable extra presets, design sound is slower), so you do not want to pay much.

product is definitely worth checking. It's single developer project but unlike similar products distributed by Tracktion, author is communicating well. So, I think it's good to buy synth and give him chance to hire more developers and let Hyperion grow.