Waves Inspire Virtual Instruments Collection

Inspire Virtual Instruments Collection

State-of-the-art instruments, from classic to futuristic

Make Music with Inspiring Sounds

When you need that ideal instrument sound, you’ll find it here. Play the timeless beauty of a first-class acoustic piano, integrate analog synthesis, fuse today’s productions with the vintage vibe of electric pianos, or push the envelope with high-tech sounds—all from this compelling collection.

Waves has the modeling expertise to capture the past, the digital expertise to explore the future, and the ability to blend technology with inviting, musical interfaces that inspire creativity.

Essential Sounds for All Types of Music Production

Luxurious Grand Piano

Grand Rhapsody captures the Fazioli F228 piano’s sublime tone, balanced touch, superb clarity, and powerful bass. Multi-miked with 8 pairs of world-class mics, and with ten acoustic environments, the sound is breathtaking.

Your Voice is Now an Instrument

With both Ovox, your voice can generate chords, harmonize, vocode, synthesize, re-tune, arpeggiate, modulate, trigger MIDI instruments, do sound design, and more. There’s nothing like OVox for vocals.

Get Creative with the CR8 Sampler + COSMOS Sample Finder

CR8 makes sampling easy and fun, with an inviting UI that lets you stretch, loop, sync, layer, freeze, reverse, and modulate your samples quickly and creatively. For an ideal workflow, pair CR8 with the AI-powered COSMOS Sample Finder, so you can search & find any sample on your computer in seconds. CR8 and COSMOS also come with over 2500 royalty-free samples!

Vintage Keys of the 60s and 70s

Take the clav’s twang, an electric grand, and the funk of two iconic electric pianos. Add the effects and amps used with these classics, then multisample for the ideal dynamic response—and end up with the ultimate electric pianos.

Electric Bass with Maximum Articulation

Bass Fingers and Bass Slapper nail the sound of electric bass, with the kind of expressiveness that’s possible only with thousands of unlooped multisamples, amp/cab emulations, keyswitching, and Waves’ sampling expertise.

The Smooth Sound of Analog Synthesis

There’s a reason the sound of analog synthesis has not only survived, but grown over the past half-century: It sounds wonderful. Element 2.0 uses cutting-edge technology to capture the silky, responsive sound of analog synthesis.

Digital Synthesis, Reinvented

Flow Motion rejuvenates FM synthesis with easier programming and greater versatility, while Codex transports the wavetable synth from its 80s beginnings into the 21st century. Both bring the sounds of tomorrow to today.

Thousands of Presets

All of these virtual instruments come with a generous collection of presets, created by top musicians and sound designers. Dive in and start playing, or dive deep and start programming—it’s your choice.

Bass Fingers

Bass Fingers captures the sound, and the naturally warm vibe, of finger-style bass. 14,000 samples feature multiple velocity layers, natural sustain, and “round robin” note rotation. Choose where on the neck to play notes, because the same note has different tones depending on where it’s played.

Keyswitching adds articulations like legato samples, up/down slides, squeaks, hammer-ons, and more. Control your velocity ranges, adjust tone for different bass characters, mute notes… Bass Fingers feels ultra-natural and real.

Bass Slapper

Slapping bass with your thumb makes such a cool sound, but it’s impossible to sample… right? Not anymore. 3,700 multisamples, with round-robin note assignments and articulations, nail the 70s bass sound that players like Larry Graham and Bootsy Collins used to power funk, disco, and pop.

Select a warm, old-school sound, or bright modern—even choose the neck position where notes play, because the same note sounds different at different positions. It’s all about slap bass realism.

Clavinet

The D6 clavinet has cast its gritty, twangy spell on musicians as diverse as Steve Wonder, the Rolling Stones, Herbie Hancock, the Band, Funkadelic, Steely Dan, the Wailers, and Fleetwood Mac. And now, Waves has painstakingly captured this instantly recognizable sound, in all its funky glory.

By multi-sampling every texture, articulation, and hammer strike in both muted and unmuted modes, Clavinet nails the classic tone of this keyboard king—but most importantly, it nails the feel.

Codex Wavetable Synth

You want the sweet sound of analog, but the clarity and flexibility of digital—you want CODEX. This granular, wavetable-based synthesizer’s offers an immense sonic palette. Inspirational, innovative, and exciting, there’s no faster or better way to liberate yourself from conventional synth sounds.

Starting out? Simply dial up any of the 500+ incredible presets. Synthesis Jedi master? Dive deep into unparalleled sound design possibilities—including the option to load your own waveforms.

COSMOS Sample Finder

Quick—what sound is the sample with filename asdf_#12C.wav? You may not know, but COSMOS does. COSMOS uses an AI neural networks engine to analyze all the samples on your hard drive, and then categorizes and auto-tags the instrument, timbre, style, key, BPM, and sonic characteristics (loop or one-shot, dry or wet, and much more) in its database.

Need to find a saturated kick? Just type “saturated” and “kick” in COSMOS, and all your saturated kicks will show up, no matter what the files are actually named. Need to find a bright reverby drum loop in 120 BPM? Or a saturated synth sample in F#-minor with a cinematic feel? Just choose the appropriate tags, and COSMOS will deliver the samples you’re after, instantly.

CR8 Creative Sampler

Ideal for beats, looping, instrument creation, sound design, and more, CR8 makes sampling easy and fun—just drag in a sample, and start playing. Or, take your creativity to the max: stretch, loop, sync, layer, stack, freeze, reverse, modulate, and use analog synth modules to process your sounds.

Take advantage of the vast collection of over 2500 free samples and over 800 presets—CR8 pairs with the AI-powered COSMOS Sample Finder, so you can find any sound you want in seconds.

Electric 200 Piano

“A quantum leap from other sampled Wurlitzers” according to top session musician Charlie Judge (Keith Urban, Carrie Underwood), Electric 200 captures the tones heard on classics by Queen, Pink Floyd, and Supertramp as well as Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and Aretha Franklin.

Each original 200 model had its own subtle tonal variations. For Electric 200, we’ve sampled two different pianos, capturing every nuance of the keys’ response and the instruments’ authentic mechanical reaction.

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