Wavea Flite 2.0: The Fully Loaded Soft Synth Gets Even More Impressive
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Version 2.0 brings loads of new sound and modulation capabilities to Wavea Flite, including new FM configurations, new filter models, and more.
Wavea Flite
Wavea Flite 2.0
Two years ago, I told you about Flite, a sampler/soft synth from musician Sharooz Raoofi’s Wavea. It’s now the two-year anniversary, and to celebrate, Sharooz has just dropped version 2.0, which brings a whole host of new features and improvements to the instrument.
The free upgrade lets you import SFZ, SF2, and Decent Sampler patches, the latter with multi-sample support. You also get WAV, AIFF, FLAC and MP3 sample loading with missing-file feedback and other tweaks to the sample engine. This is in addition to the granular engine that came along after the original release.
Moving on, the VA engine gains new oscillators with morphing and stacked waveforms plus some fresh wavetables. There’s also FM (both musical and exponential), filters in the form of comb, formant and resonator models, new LFO modes, new effects, an improved modulator and macro assignment, MPE support, new sequencer features and much more.
Of course, this all includes the 2.5GBs of sample content sourced from classic synths like the Yamaha CS-80 and Roland Jupiter-8.
Flite comes in two models: the paid Flite Create and free Flite Play. The update is free to Flite Create owners. Flite Create is on sale now from Wavea for $69.99.
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Wavea Flite Multi-Sampler/Synth Plugin
You may not immediately know the name Sharooz Raoofi but you’re probably familiar with some of the things that he’s done. The man behind techno outfit Principleasure, sample companies Sounds to Sample and Sound Magic and online beats store Wavetick, Raoofi’s latest venture is plugin company Wavea. Given his history with samples, it should come as no surprise that Wavea’s first release features sampling front and center.
Called Flite, the new instrument is a hybrid multi-sampler and synthesizer and it comes packed to the gills with 2.5GBs of samples from Raoofi’s own personal collection of vintage synthesizers. Some of the instruments sampled include Yamaha CS-80, Roland Juno-106, Jupiter-8, TB-303, TR-808, TR-909, SH-101, Oberheim OB-8, Xpander, Sequential Circuits T8, Pro-One, Prophet-5, Korg Mono/Poly and LinnDrum.
Oh, and did I mention it’s free?
Two Versions
OK, so it’s not all free. Wavea Flite includes two versions in a single wrapper: the free Player, which includes 200 presets of all of those beautiful samples plus macros to adjust each one, and the full Creator version, which costs $99.
If you’re a fan of vintage synths or Raoofi’s music, that should be enough to prompt an immediate download of the Flite Player.
However, the Creator version adds quite a bit to the mix beyond just the ability to save presets.
Creator Version
WaveaFlite Creator is a hybrid sampler/synth instrument with four sample slots. Each slot is a full-on sampler, with key mapping and round robins. You can use the supplied sounds or import your own.
Along with the sample slots, you get a synthesizer section with FM, virtual analog and wavetable parameters with multiple oscillator modes. There are two filters, each with two- or four-pole lowpass/bandpass/highpass modes. Modulation includes three assignable envelopes, three LFOs and an extensive modulation matrix. There are also two 32-step sequencers and multi effects including a granular reverb from Sinevibes. Lastly, Wavea Flite gives you a three-band EQ for each voice – great for tone-shaping in-instrument – plus eight custom macros.
AI Coming Soon
In a post to his LinkedIn page, Raoofi mentioned that Wavea is working on adding an AI-powered, text-prompted preset generator and custom UX creator to the plugin which will allow users to generate their own presets and custom skins.
“Anyone can create custom instruments with a fully unique UI with just a few clicks!” he said. “An entirely new community of sound designers is born.” Additionally, “the hybrid architecture of synth/sampler provides vast possibilities for AI-powered preset generation.”
Price and Availability
From playing with it a little bit, I can say that Wavea Flite sounds gorgeous. I’m curious to see how it evolves in the future.
Flite is available now from the Wavea site (link below). It’s free to download and costs $99 to unlock the full Creator mode.
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2 responses to “Wavea Flite 2.0: The Fully Loaded Soft Synth Gets Even More Impressive”
Ableton doesn’t see it, even though I installed it fine. It says this in its description: if Ableton doesn’t see it, read on Ableton’s page what to do in such a case (and link attached). Reboot, search with Abeleton (scan plugin) and the usual…
No problem with other daw? So they knew it was going to be bad?
Is this serious?
Okay, it’s free stuff, but couldn’t it be released in a way that actually works? By the way, I would have been interested in the part of the multi-layer sampler, which I would have paid for. But I didn’t like it.
What I don’t understand is, if you know Ableton is going to have a problem, why don’t they fix this problem? Such programs cause chaos on my computer…
Thanks!