DarkWave Studio is a free Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) / modular virtual music studio for Windows. You can easily use the built in sequencer, bundled DarkPlug machines and third-party VST effects and VSTi instruments to create music. DarkWave Studio allows the connection of machines in an ad-hoc fashion. The installer ships with both a 32-bit and 64-bit version.

DarkWave consists of the following main parts:

Studio (Work With Machines)
Pattern Editor (Create Pieces Of Music)
Sequencer (Arrange Patterns Into A Song)
Multi-track Hard Disk Recorder (Master Your Music)

The following plugins are included with DarkWave:

ES Audio Input (Allows For Input From Sound Card)
ES Arpeggiator (Play Arpeggios With A MIDI Keyboard)
ES ControlChange Mapper (Map Control Change Events From One Index To Another)
ES MIDI Input (Use MIDI Keyboards With DarkWave Instruments)
ES MIDI Output (Sequence External MIDI Synthesizers)
ES AntiAlias (32x Digital Oversampling)
ES SpatialVerb (Room Modelling Reverb Unit)
ES Stomp (Rave Kick Generator)
ES BassHead (Subtractive Virtual Analog Synthesizer)
ES DGenR8 (Virtual Analog Drum Machine)
ES QuadDelay (Echo And Chorus Effect)
ES Mixer (8 Track Mixer With 2 Auxillary Tracks)
ES Distort (Basic Overdrive Distortion Effect)
ES Crunch (Limit Bits Per Sample Anywhere From 16 To 1 Bits)
ES StereoSplitter (Split An Input Stereo Signal Into Left And Right Output Mono Signals)
ES StereoJoiner (Combine Left And Right Input Mono Signals Into A Single Output Stereo Signal)
ES Scope (View Generated Waveforms In Realtime)
ES Control Monitor (View Control Messages)
ES DownStepper (Sample Rate Reduction Filter)

Features:

Highly Optimized 64-bit Double Precision Precision Audio Processing
Incredibly Fast And Small Download
Low Latency ASIO And DirectSound Audio Output Support
SSE2 (Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data Extensions) Optimizations.

High quality media solution for large libraries. Organize, play, tag all types of media files. Rip, Burn, serve to Xbox, PS3, UPnP, DLNA, TiVo. Audiophile quality, DSD, madVR, Ten foot mode, remote control, HD TV recording in real time. Customizable media views. 3D views. Supports iPods, cameras, 90+ media file formats. Integration with Facebook, Flickr, Audible, Amazon MP3, Google, Youtube, Wikipedia, Hulu, Last.FM, Twitter. Cover art lookup.

Three skinned interfaces. A Visualization Studio feature lets you create your own visualizations, and a DSP Studio allows personalization of the listening environment. Media Scheduler for sleep, alarm and recording functions, Media Editor for editing sound files. Smartlists based on rules. Drag-and-drop for easy Playlist creation. Unique media browsing views for faster, easier and more powerful file search and play. Tagging studio. Integrated CD labeler. Support for CD and DVD database and support for popular handheld players, Sony PSP and PlaysForSure devices.

Complete media solution for extensive libraries. Organize, play, tag all types of media files. Rip, Burn, serve to Xbox, PS3, UPnP, DLNA, TiVo. Audiophile quality, Ten foot mode, remote control, HD TV recording in real time. Customizable media views. 3D views. Supports iPods, cameras, 90+ media file formats. Integration with Facebook, Flickr, Audible, Amazon MP3, Google, Youtube, Wikipedia, Hulu, Last.FM, Twitter. Cover art lookup.

Three skinned interfaces. A Visualization Studio feature lets you create your own visualizations, and a DSP Studio allows personalization of the listening environment. Media Scheduler for sleep, alarm and recording functions, Media Editor for editing sound files. Smartlists based on rules. Drag-and-drop for easy Playlist creation. Unique media browsing views for faster, easier and more powerful file search and play. Tagging studio. Integrated CD labeler. Support for CD and DVD database and support for popular handheld players, Sony PSP and PlaysForSure devices.