DarkWave Studio is a free modular virtual studio for the synthesis of electronic music. It has a built in pattern editor and sequencer. 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.

The program currently supports sound output via Windows Sound and ASIO. 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 plugins for that platform, i.e. the x64 version only loads 64-bit VST and DarkPlug plugins.

DarkWave supports multiple processors well, with an aggressively multithreaded audio path that can utilize multiple CPU chips and/or cores. The program is perfectly suited for x86-64 systems with multiple cores such as the "Core 2 Duo" and "Core 2 Quad" processors by Intel and comparable processors by AMD.

The following plugins are included with DarkWave: MIDI Input, ES SpatialVerb (Room Modelling Reverb Unit), ES Kick (Rave Kick Generator), ES BassHead (Subtractive Analog Synthesizer), ES AntiAlias, ES QuadDelay (Echo Effect), ES Mixer (8 Track + 2 AUX Mixer)

New in v2.9.8

• Fixed yet another problem with sequencer timing, it was skipping quite bad at the end of the sequence when looping the sequence, most noticeably when using a large audio output buffer.
• Fixed a problem with the Sequence Editor drawing a couple of extra gridlines to the right of the grid.
• Updated the appearance of the HD Recording tracks in the HD Recorder to look right with the new theme.