Tracktion Waveform
A fully-featured music production software with no feature limitations
- Vendor
- Tracktion Software Corporation
- Also known as
- tracktion-waveform
Available worldwide
What is Tracktion Waveform?
Tracktion Waveform is a digital audio workstation for recording, editing, and mixing audio and MIDI. It offers both a free version with comprehensive features and a professional edition with additional plugins and expansion packs.
Tracktion Waveform pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier available. Waveform Pro from $249 (one-time). 30-day unlimited trial. AI Assistant available with pay-as-you-go pricing.
Waveform Free
FreeFully featured DAW with built-in effects, instruments, and plugins
- 14 built-in audio effects
- 8 MIDI effects
- 11 utility plugins
- 4 built-in instruments
- VST, VST3, AU plugin support
- Video track support
- Multi-track recording
Waveform Pro
Professional edition with expanded effects, instruments, sound packs, and bundled plugins
- 38 built-in audio effects
- 10 MIDI effects
- 11 utility plugins
- 10 built-in instruments
- DAW Essentials Collection
- Artisan Collection
- Collective 2
- BioTek 3
- Auto-Tune
- Melodyne Essential
- Elastique Pro
- Drum loop libraries
- Recording Engineer expansion
- MIDI Producer expansion
- Synth Pack expansion
- DJ Mix Tools expansion
- Pro Video expansion
- Launcher expansion
- Multi Channel expansion
What Tracktion Waveform does
The capabilities that matter for music production daw, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Architecture model
- Desktop local application
- Workflow paradigm
- Traditional linear timeline
- Vst3 and audio unit au hosting support
- ✓
- Native pitch correction and vocal tuning flex pitch
- -
- Advanced audio warping and time stretching algorithms
- ✓
- Midi comping and take folder management
- -
- Sheet music score editor view
- -
- Hardware control surface deep integration midi learn
- -
- Video playback track for film scoring
- ✓
- Surround sound and dolby atmos native mixing
- ✓
- SOC2 type ii
- -
- Gpl or permissive oss license
- -
- Pricing model
- Perpetual lifetime license
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- macOS
- Windows
Integrations (3)
Independently observed- Auto-Tune•
- Melodyne Essential•
- Elastique Pro•
Tracktion Waveform alternatives
Other music production daw we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- SoundtrapWeb-based music production platform for creating, recording, and collaborating on music projects with integrated sound libraries and production toolslow · 36%
- ArdourA digital audio workstation for recording, editing, and mixing soundlow · 8%
- Steinberg CubaseA professional digital audio workstation for music composition, recording, and productionlow · 8%
- Bitwig StudioA professional digital audio workstation that combines timeline-based and clip-launcher composition with deep hardware control integration.low · 25%
- FL StudioA digital music production platform for creating tracks from composition through mixing and masteringlow · 24%
- Cakewalk by BandLabA desktop music production platform combining recording, mixing, and editing tools for professional audio worklow · 3%
Compare Tracktion Waveform
Side by side against other music production daw, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Tracktion Waveform, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 45 | 0.08 | 3.8 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.05 | 3.3 | ✓ |
| Price level | 25 | 0.05 | 1.3 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 17 | 0.04 | 0.7 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 5 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Pricing model: perpetual_lifetime_license · Workflow paradigm: traditional_linear_timeline · Architecture model: desktop_local_application · Video playback track for film scoring: Yes · Vst3 and audio unit au hosting support: Yes · Surround sound and dolby atmos native mixing: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 3 | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-01 · 75% |
Pricing
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-01 · 75% |