How to Make a Patch in StudioVerse Instruments
Get more from your Waves instruments and effects. Learn how to build and edit your own instrument chains in StudioVerse.
If you haven’t checked out StudioVerse Instruments yet, you’re missing out. It brings all your Waves instruments together, working seamlessly with your Waves effects, to create sounds that are greater than the sum of their parts.
One of the best features is the ability to share patches with others and just as easily download patches from fellow artists. You can drag and drop them straight into your session or browse and load them directly within the plugin.
To help you get started with building your own StudioVerse Instruments patches—whether you’re enhancing a synth or layering multiple instruments into one—we’ve put together a simple walkthrough to guide you through the process.
Getting Started with StudioVerse Instruments
First, load StudioVerse Instruments on an instrument track in your DAW. This assumes that you’ve installed the plugin via Waves Central. Remember, any Waves instrument plugins that you want to call up as part of a StudioVerse Instruments patch will have to also be installed via Waves Central.
On the left, you’ll find presets stored in the cloud. Hover over any patch thumbnail and a small play icon will appear, click it to audition the sound. The best part is you don’t need any MIDI on the track or to play anything in yourself. Each patch includes a built-in pattern, making it easy to preview and quickly discover sounds that fit your music.
The patch information screen, which says Full Reset, can be clicked to Load, Save and bring your plugin back to its default Full Reset state.
Loading an Instrument Plugin into StudioVerse Instruments
Inside the plugin, you’ll see the signal chain laid out across eight slots from left to right. In one of these slots, you can load the Element instrument, which opens in its own window. You can use Element just as you normally would, but now you also have the option to play it with StudioVerse Instruments’ other features… which we’ll cover shortly.
Into the other slots after Element, we can go on to load other plugin effects, but let’s take a step back. Let’s remove Element from the slot (right-click the slot and select Remove Plugin), and then follow these steps instead.
Working with Layers and Splits in StudioVerse Instruments
When clicking on an empty slot, we can select between two yellow options: Instrument Layers and Keyboard Zones. These won’t appear if an instrument has already been loaded into a slot before them. These options are about splitting the chain so two instruments can be loaded.
Keyboard Zones gives you two chains, one which will play below certain notes, and one which will play above. The classic idea is bass on the low notes and lead or chords on the higher range. You select the note where the split will occur.
The other option is Instrument Layers which simply creates two chains that both play at the same time, with no split. We select this option and add Element again, only this time it’s being added to one out of the two chains, and another layer is waiting for us to add later.
Layer 1: Adding an Element Synth Sound with Effects
We start by using two low sine waves in Element 2.0, with a small amount of frequency modulation between them.
Next in this chain, straight after Element, comes H-Delay, set to a 1/16 timing with a low-to-medium feedback of about 20. We also switched on the Lofi setting in H-Delay, making things more crusty and analog-esque. Then, F6 comes up to calm the layer, removing some lows, some highs and adding a boost at about 500Hz for warmth.
Layer 2: Adding a Piano Sound
Thanks to the Instrument Layer split device in slot 1, we can add Grand Rhapsody Piano to the new chain and have both our Element bass and piano part play at the same time. This means we have to add some variation in between the two layers, so they sound distinct but still work well together.
We turn to H-Verb to use as our key effect on the piano, making it a longer-lasting and more organic-sounding tone, as compared to our bass synth, which is more static and stable.
Bringing it Back Together – Adding Global Effects
The effects that we placed after Element and Grand Rhapsody Piano were all placed within the chains of the Instrument Layer device. Returning to our main line of eight slots, if we place an effect plugin after the Instrument Layer device itself, this effect will be global, processing the sound after both the split instruments have been mixed back together.
Using C6, we start by adding compression in the mid range of the signal. This helps the overall sound feel weightier and powerful, especially since it catches both instruments’ outputs together. Next, we grab F6 and use it to clean things up, taking down some mid range frequencies and removing some of the brightness at the top end.
Hear the Final Patch
This is the result of the combinations we came up with throughout this tutorial, including the Instrument Layer split, the instruments themselves, their individual effects and the global effects placed over both in combination. Yes it’s simple, but it gives you the idea how easy it is to make your own sounds in StudioVerse Instruments.
Note Processors
StudioVerse Instruments doesn’t just do tricks with splitting instrument paths – it also has a wealth of other MIDI features. From simple operations like transposing notes up or down an octave, right through to filtering in-key notes and playing with velocity and humanization. You can find out more about StudioVerse Instruments’ note processing capabilities in this article.
Dive Deeper into StudioVerse Instruments
If you’re starting a song from scratch, why not try StudioVerse Instruments? It’s the perfect tool for turning inspiration into full blown production reality.
In this tutorial, producer IMAGINATE jumps into a writing session using only StudioVerse Instruments. From drums and bass to chords, textures, and lead synths, every sound is just a tag search away. You’ll see how quickly he shapes drum kits, adds movement to bass lines, blends in unexpected textures, and creates emotional depth with atmospheric chords, all in real time, without the tools getting in the way of creativity.
Get StudioVerse Instruments for Yourself
“The world’s biggest online preset library” is a free download here at Waves, and is able to access whatever Waves plugins you have licensed and installed on the same machine. StudioVerse Instruments and StudioVerse Audio Effects is also the perfect way to get the most out of Waves Creative Access Ultimate too.
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