Waves Audio has released an ‘improved and significantly enhanced’ version of StudioVerse, the world’s largest online preset library of audio and instrument chains.
This major update – part of the V15 update of the Waves plug-in catalogue – adds instrument chains to StudioVerse via the new plug-in StudioVerse Instruments, enabling users to access thousands of custom-designed instrument presets from the StudioVerse library. Further, the new StudioVerse Audio Effects plug-in (a renamed, redesigned and enhanced version of Waves StudioRack), delivers enhanced functionality, with an upgraded UI and improved features integrated within a DAW.
StudioVerse Instrument is a virtual instrument plug-in rack, allowing users to play, browse and audition thousands of custom-designed instrument presets from the StudioVerse library. These are complex chains that combine multi-instrument layers, Midi effects and audio effects. Users’ own instruments can be shared across DAWs, and published in the StudioVerse library.
Each virtual instrument preset is crafted as a complex and multi-timbral chain, with a unique style and character. Super instruments can be created with both Waves and third-party VST3s, VIs stacked in layers or split across a keyboard in zones.
Waves has redesigned and enhanced StudioRack, which is now called StudioVerse Audio Effects. With numerous UX enhancements, this plug-in helps users discover presets faster and find sounds more efficiently. Additionally, the search engine has been optimised with added tags and suggested presets all within a streamlined plug-in window. StudioVerse Audio Effects is fully backwards compatible with older StudioRack presets and sessions.
This revamped and intuitive plug-in rack is devised for hosting audio-processing chains from the extensive StudioVerse library. It allows plug-in chains to be built with full VST3 support for third-party plug-ins. Among those provided are Rihanna’s vocal chain, Young Guru’s vox blueprint and vintage Beach Boys vocals among thousands of mixing presets for every genre, along with eight assignable macros and the ability to use both parallel and multiband racks.
Cloud-based, ‘he StudioVerse preset library remains dynamic, and consistently refreshed with new content, all of which is accessible via a DAW.
Both StudioVerse plug-ins are free to download. Additionally, the StudioVerse online preset library is available to all users, regardless of the number of plug-ins owned. Waves Creative Access users have full access to the entire catalogue of Waves plug-ins.
