What if your DAW
was 450 kilobytes?

Wavesmith builds your entire signal chain on demand into a native instrument smaller than this webpage. Every effect, every filter, every oscillator — assembled the moment you need it.

450 KB All Code
0.02s Compile Time
0.15% CPU per Voice
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Most DAWs are bloated.
Wavesmith is distilled.

Your entire effect chain — oscillators, filters, envelopes, modulation — compiles into a single native instrument — small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, powerful enough to replace a rack of gear. No interpreter. No runtime overhead. Just your sound, built on demand.

~2 GB
Typical DAW install
450 KB
Wavesmith
4,444x smaller

Everything you need.
Nothing you don't.

Polyphonic Synthesizer

8-voice polyphony with ADSR envelopes, resonant filters, and multiple waveforms. Math becoming sound in real time.

8 Voices ADSR Resonant Filter MIDI

Drum Machine

16 velocity-sensitive pads with 3-voice synthesis and pattern sequencing.

16 Pads Patterns

Arpeggiator

Direction, rate, octave range, gate. Turns chords into rhythmic patterns synced to tempo.

Tempo Sync Gate

Sculptor

7-stage voice: oscillator, waveshaper, filter, LFO, envelope, delay, master. 42 sculptable parameters.

7 Stages 42 Params

Choir

4-voice formant vocal synthesis modeled on Peterson & Barney research. Voice families auto-select by octave — bass, tenor, alto, soprano — each with tuned formant resonances, vibrato, and vowel shaping.

Formant 4 Families 5 Vowels

Fiber

Wavetable synth with harmonic morphing oscillators, 3 routable LFOs, FM/ring mod, warp distortion (fold, crush, spectral), and multi-mode resonant filter. 72 parameters.

Wavetable FM / Ring Mod 3 LFOs 72 Params

Wavebending

360-degree polar interface for non-destructive audio sculpting. Drag in any direction to reshape amplitude, drive, spectral tilt, and playback speed simultaneously along a continuous timeline. Catmull-Rom curves. Fully undoable.

4 Dimensions Non-Destructive 360°

Carnival

Granular sampler with live audio capture, 4-grain voices, Hann windowing, and vintage warmth. Trigger pads fire grains scattered across a 1.5-second buffer. Loop, reverse, ping-pong, pitch-shift.

Granular 4 Grains Trigger Pads Vintage

Instrument Maker

Design your own instruments from scratch. MIDI CC learning, MPE expression, velocity, aftertouch, pitch bend, 89 plugins, and a compiler that turns your ideas into native code in 0.02 seconds.

CC Learn MPE 89 Plugins Compiler

Music is a wave.
Producers are wave makers.

89 bundled plugins and growing daily. Each one compiles down to pure arithmetic — typically under 1 KB. Chain them together, and the entire chain fuses into one. No function calls. No memory allocation. No overhead.

Highlights: cellular automata, granular processing, Karplus-Strong string synthesis, spectral freeze, waveguide reverb, strange attractor, FM synth — and dozens more.

Beta ships within two weeks.

Dynamics

  • Compressor
  • Limiter
  • Gate
  • Expander

Filters

  • Biquad (LP/HP/BP/Notch)
  • Resonant Filter
  • One-Pole Smoothing
  • Spectral Shaping

Time

  • Delay
  • Reverb
  • Chorus
  • Flanger

Distortion

  • Overdrive
  • Waveshaper
  • Bitcrusher
  • Tape Saturation

Modulation

  • Tremolo
  • Vibrato
  • Ring Mod
  • Phaser

Utility

  • Gain / Pan
  • Stereo Width
  • DC Offset
  • Signal Generator

Speed that changes
what's possible.

0
bytes

Smallest compiled effect. Smaller than a text message. Your CPU processes it instantly.

0
microseconds

Processing 1,024 audio frames through gain. 21 ms of audio in 1.4 millionths of a second.

0
microseconds

Full 7-stage Sculptor voice — oscillator, waveshaper, filter, LFO, envelope, delay, and master.

0
seconds

Compile any effect to native instrument. Change, recompile, hot-swap — while audio is still playing.

Impossibly small. Every compiled effect is measured in bytes, not megabytes. Your processor never breaks a sweat.

Hot-swap while playing. Recompile and swap effects into the live signal chain without stopping audio. Atomic transition — no glitches.

Rock-solid timing. The audio thread never stutters. No garbage collector. No jitter. No surprises mid-performance.

Your music stays
on your machine.

No cloud. No account. No telemetry. No subscription. Wavesmith runs entirely on your Mac. Your audio files never leave your disk. Your projects never touch a server.

No cloud processing All DSP runs locally on your CPU
No account required Download, open, make music
No telemetry Zero network calls. Ever.
No subscription You buy it. You own it. Period.

Professional tools.
Musician-first design.

01

Non-Destructive Editing

Your audio files are never modified. Every edit is a reference — trim, gain, loop — all reversible, all instant.

02

Export to WAV

Bounce to 16, 24, or 32-bit WAV. The same compiled signal chain renders your export.

03

Project Save/Load

Tracks, effects, parameters, automation — one portable file. Open it anywhere.

04

Undo/Redo

Every action is reversible. Full history. No anxiety.

05

Device Selection

Pick your output device, set your buffer, choose your sample rate. Instant switching, zero hassle.

06

Live Visualization

Waveforms and spectrograms rendered in real time. See your sound without touching your audio budget.

A synthesizer that produces synthesizers.

Wavesmith doesn't ship a fixed synth engine. It ships a compiler. Describe what you want — oscillators, filters, envelopes, modulation — and it produces a brand new synthesizer in 0.02 seconds. Every synth is unique. Every synth is yours.

0.02s to produce a new synth
~200 bytes per synthesizer
Infinite variations

Evolving daily.

Inspired by a gifted producer who is one of a kind.

Built for Apple Silicon