Wave Stream Service Remote Audio Collaboration Service Now Available


Waves Audio is now shipping Waves Stream, a remote audio collaboration service that allows music and audio creators to share audio directly from their DAW with their co-creators or clients, in real time.

Whether you want to share your latest production ideas with a co-writer, share a mix for instant real-time feedback, or receive audio for collaboration, you can now easily share your DAW audio with producers, musicians and mixers working remotely, as if you were in the same room.

Waves Stream offers low latency, secure link sharing, and unique features such as integrated mic control – all within a streamlined UI that makes remote audio sharing as easy as clicking the big “stream” button.

The Waves Stream Send plugin includes a Mic talkback function which allows you to provide real-time commentary on a song or mix you’re sharing while playing it – similar to a studio’s talkback function. By sidechaining any channel that has a mic connected to Waves Stream, you can share your thoughts with easy gain control.

Waves Stream is private and Secure, ensuring that your audio will reach ONLY whomever you intended. First, every stream is a one-time, single-use link guaranteeing privacy and confidentiality. Second, if someone doesn’t click on a link within five minutes of you sending it, the stream will terminate. For added protection, you have the option to easily password-protect your links.

With Waves Stream, you can start sharing pro-quality audio from your DAW audio within seconds, without disrupting your creative flow. Simply load the Waves Stream plugin onto your master bus or on a designated track, press the big play button, and share the link.

Listening via the Waves Stream web player requires no license. The Waves Stream web player is readily available to anyone with a Waves Stream link. Furthermore, you can choose to listen either via a web player or a DAW. If you prefer to listen to incoming audio through your DAW, you simply use the “Receiver” plugin included in your Waves Stream license.

You an also use Waves Stream to check your own mixes outside of your usual environment. Just pull out your phone, scan the Waves Stream QR code, loop your audio – and listen through your AirPods, car speakers, or anywhere else.

Features:

  • Collaborate remotely by sharing your DAW audio in real time
  • User-friendly UI for easy one-click audio sharing
  • Listen anywhere via web player (desktop, laptop, tablet, phone)
  • Also listen in your DAW: ‘Receiver’ plugin included in your license
  • Mic talkback function: Communicate directly via Waves Stream
  • Check your own mixes away from your studio via easy QR code
  • Lossless audio powered by proprietary Waves Falcon codec
  • Secure & private: One-time links, optional password protection
  • Low latency via peer-to-peer connection
  • As an internet-based service that relies on a dynamic web infrastructure for real-time remote communication, Waves Stream is offered on a SaaS (software-as-a-subscription) model.


Waves Stream is available to users either as a standalone monthly or annual subscription (separate from any other Waves subscription), or as part of the larger Waves Creative Access.

 

Polyverse intros Filterverse Flagship Filter Plug-in


Polyverse Music has Filterverse, a new audio filter plug-in, that’s available now as an early-access public beta release.

Filterverse offers a huge range of filter algorithms and types. Some are reminiscent of classic synths, others model experimental resonating bodies, others perform sonic surgery using multi-peak response curves, and still others are “cyberpunk sound-warping machines”.

Users can select from the myriad of filter and effect types for up to three filter slots at once. Dragging the slots’ tabs arranges the filter order, and routing configurations including serial, parallel, and combinations of the two can be set in the Routing tab.

Independent dry/wet balance, panning, phase-reverse, and mid-side processing per filter allow for precise manipulation of the sonic landscape.

The modulation system features up to eight simultaneous modulators: an editable sequencer/LFO, ADSR, envelope follower, randomizer, pitch detector, MIDI/CV input, audio-rate oscillator, and Polyverse’s “Meta Knob” to change multiple parameters with a single gesture.

“Polyverse has always strived to empower its users to focus primarily on creativity,” says Polyverse founder Assaf Dar Sagol. “Filterverse is third in the Polyverse Filter Trilogy, after Supermodal and Filtron. We believe we have thoroughly reimagined the filter plug-in — and also elevated the whole idea of the filter to a true musical tool one might reach for as quickly as a favorite synthesizer or guitar.”

Features:

  • Massive filter collection from timeless to futuristic
  • Refined algorithms capture filter behavior in minute detail
  • Many filters self-resonate and create pleasing saturation
  • Optimized for audio-rate modulation
  • Combine 3 different filters using extensive routing options
  • 8 different modulation sources available at once
  • Modulators can cross-modulate each other
  • Hundreds of presets by world-renowned producers
  • Intuitive user experience focuses on immediate results
  • Full stereo modulation, panning, and mid-side capabilities

Filterverse is available in VST2, VST3, AudioUnit, and AAX formats, making it compatible with the widest variety of host applications including Ableton Live, Apple Logic, Avid Pro Tools, Steinberg Cubase, FL Studio, Reason, PreSonus Studio One and many more. It can be used in 64-bit instances in Windows 7 and later, as well as in macOS 10.13 and later on both Intel and Apple Silicon CPUs.

Filterverse is available as a Public Beta for $79 (full price $149). Bundle discounts are also available.

How To Use Amiga 500 as An Effects Pedal

In this video, synthesist Paulee Alex Bow demonstrates how to use the vintage Commodore Amiga 500 computer as an effects pedal.

 

“With a sampler cartridge like Technosound Turbo anything is possible,” says Bow. “There’s all sorts of weird and wonderful sounds that came out of the thing!”

The Amiga 500 was originally introduced in 1987 as a home computer, and was a hit for its day, selling millions of units.

 

Watch the video and share your thoughts in the comments!