All nine instruments are built into WaveStage. Put one on any channel and step through its presets from the bottom bar or your keyboard. Its Studio page has the controls, and you can change them while you play. Your own SoundFonts (.sf2) go on channels the same way.
Every preset is level-matched, so switching sounds mid-service or mid-set doesn't jump in volume.
From a quiet hymn to a full band on a Saturday night: a concert grand recorded at sixteen levels of touch, so a whisper and a full chord sound like the same piano. Hold the sustain pedal and the open strings ring in sympathy, the way a real grand blooms.
Eight voicings, from intimate to bright and cutting
Tone, EQ and compression built in, to sit it in any mix
A room reverb, with shimmer for the quiet moments
STRINGS
Orchestral Strings
A string section wherever you play
Real orchestral recordings, not synth strings: five sections, each in its own seat, swelling with the mod wheel as the song lifts, whether that's a worship bridge, a ballad on stage or a studio session. Hold a big chord and the players spread across the notes, so it stays full, never muddy.
Long, soft sustains under a song; tremolo, pizzicato or spiccato when it moves
Tutti, split by register, or spread across the keyboard
Humanize lets the players come in a touch apart, like a real section
ELECTRIC PIANO
The EP
For slow songs, soul and late-night sessions
Warm and bell-like when you play softly, gritty and alive when the band kicks in. It's the sound for a gentle worship moment, a soul gig or a session with the band. There's a reedier character too.
Phaser, chorus and echo stompboxes, and a stage amp with drive and room
Tremolo on the mod wheel, on a rig page of its own
Organs
ORGAN · 29 PRESETS
Tonewheel Organ
From a quiet hymn to a gospel shout to a blues session
Drawbars, percussion, scanner chorus and a rotary speaker that speeds up from your mod wheel when the music rises. Play it softly under the offering, or pull out everything for the last chorus.
29 presets, including Full Organ, Gospel, Jazz Trio and Cabinet Overdrive
The pitch wheel bends and the sustain pedal holds, as on a real console
ORGAN · 19 REGISTRATIONS
Church Organ
Hymns that fill the whole house
A pipe organ in its own hall, with five stops you draw yourself, from soft flutes for a quiet moment to full reeds and mixtures for the last verse. It suits a cathedral-sized ballad on stage or a moody studio session too. The mod wheel is your tremulant.
19 registrations, from Principal 8' and Voix Céleste to Organo Pleno and Grand Chœur Tutti
Synths
PAD SYNTH
Wave Ambient
The pad under everything
Slow, wide pads that bloom and drift under prayer, between songs, behind a singer on stage, or under a studio session. It's also the sound of the pad drone. Tap the next song's key and the new pad fades in while the old one fades out, so the set flows without a gap.
Shimmer, echoes and a big reverb; the mod wheel adds movement
Choir and vocal presets with a real recorded choir underneath
POLY SYNTH
Wave Analog
Warm leads, brass and big basses
An analogue-style poly synth for the parts that lift a song: leads, basses, plucks, keys and pads, with glide and vibrato when you want them. It suits a worship anthem, an '80s covers set or a synthwave session. Its brass and choir presets have real recordings layered underneath.
An arpeggiator (up, down, up and down, random or as played, over 1–4 octaves); hold the sustain pedal to latch it
Brass Section, Brass Swell, Low Brass, Soft Choir and more
FM SYNTH
Wave Digital
Bells, glass and shine
The classic digital sound: glassy electric pianos, bells, mallets, plucks, basses and pads that ring out over a full band, at church or on stage. Play hard and it brightens; play softly and it rounds off. Every voice was made for WaveStage.
A Choir panel adds a choir under any voice, singing Aah, Ooh or both
MONO SYNTH
DOOG
The bass that moves the room
A mono synth for big basses and leads, when the band is up and the room is on its feet, or in a session building a groove. Push it and it growls, then sings. Play legato and it glides; hit a key hard and it accents.
A 16-step sequencer with slides, accents and swing; play a key and the pattern follows you
Wobble, sweeps and vibrato, plus echoes in time with its own sequencer
Save your own patches, pattern and all, and a scene brings them back
Every channel gets its own FX rack
Every channel's rack has seven effects, all off until you switch them on. Each is drawn as the unit it's modelled on: the compressor, limiter, reverb and EQ as rack units with a live meter or display, the delay as a tape echo with turning reels, and the chorus and flanger as stompboxes. The Master page has a rack of its own for the whole mix.
Tape Echo
Echoes that can bounce left and right, getting darker as they fade.
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Drawn as a tape echo: the reels spin faster as the echo gets shorter, and a lamp blinks on every repeat. Switch it between mono and ping-pong, and switch on SYNC to keep its repeats in time with each song's tempo.
Ensemble Chorus
Width and shimmer, from subtle to a slow swirl.
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A stompbox with rate, depth, mix and feedback knobs, an LED that pulses with the sweep, and a footswitch.
Jet Flanger
The jet-plane whoosh, from gentle to metallic.
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The same kind of stompbox: rate, depth, mix and feedback, and a footswitch. Turn up the feedback and it gets more metallic.
Concert Reverb
WaveStage's own reverb, from a small room to a cathedral, with shimmer when you want it.
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A rack unit with a glowing display. Pick the space on its keys (room, chamber, hall, plate, cathedral or lush), then shape it with six faders.
Channel Compressor
Evens out your playing, so quiet notes come through and loud ones don't jump out.
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A studio compressor whose lit meter shows how hard it's working, with the ratio on push buttons and big knobs for threshold and makeup.
Peak Limiter
Catches sudden peaks before they get too loud.
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A big lit meter and three knobs: input gain, ceiling and release. An amber lamp lights while it's holding peaks down.
7-band EQ
Seven bands and a real-time analyzer (more below).
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Each band can be a low cut, low shelf, bell, high shelf or high cut, with ±12 dB of gain.
It's laid out like the channel EQ on a digital desk. Drag a point to move a band, and you'll see what the channel is putting out, drawn live behind the curve.
Every band has its own frequency, gain (up to ±12 dB) and width
Five band types: low cut, low shelf, bell, high shelf and high cut
It starts flat, as a low shelf, five bells and a high shelf
A live analyzer with plenty of detail in the low end
The Master page
The whole mix goes through four stages you control, then a safety stage that's always on. The gain reduction meters show how hard the compressor, limiter and safety are working, so you can see when the mix is running hot.
Reverb: one reverb for the whole mix.
Bus Compressor: a classic console bus compressor to pull the mix together. It's level-matched, so switching it on won't make the mix jump in volume.
EQ: the same seven bands, after the compressor.
Limiter: input gain, ceiling and release.
Safety: always on. It only touches peaks that would clip.
Credits
WaveStage uses some open-source code and freely licensed recordings, and we're grateful to the people who share them. The full credits and licences are in the app under Settings › About.
