13. Appendix
Built-in waves
| Family | Waves |
|---|---|
| Basic | Sine / Saw / Pulse / Tri / Ramp / Noise |
| Analog | Warm Saw / Saw+Square / Warm Square / Saw+Tri / Pulse 25 / Pulse 12 / Pulse 5 / Soft Pulse / Organ |
| Sync / reso | Sync Saw 2.5 / Sync Saw 3.7 / Sync Square / Reso Saw Lo / Reso Saw Hi |
| FM | FM 1:1 Soft / FM 1:1 Hard / FM 1:2 / FM 1:3 / FM 2:1 / FM 1:4 Bright / FM 3:2 / FM Feedback |
| Phase distortion | PD Saw / PD Reso / PD Reso Tri |
| Digital / experimental | Step Sine / Stair 8 / Comb 3rd / Buzz Odd / Buzz 64 / Fold Sine 2 / Fold Sine 5 / Fold Tri 3 / Clip Sine / Tanh Saw / Half Rect / AM 7 / Cheby Mix / Asym Fold / Grit Spectrum / Glitch 16 / Crush Sine / Metallic / Sine Burst |
| Vocal | Vox A / Vox E / Vox I / Vox O / Vox U / Choir Ah / Vox AE / Nasal / Vox OI / Throat |
| Bass / growl | Growl FM / Growl Saw / Reese Core / Wobble Sub / Yoi / Neuro Fold / Tear / Bark / Screech / Talk Bass |
| Organ / keys (v1.1) | Drawbar 888 / Drawbar Full / Drawbar Mellow / Drawbar Bright / Drawbar Perc / Combo Organ / Reed Organ / EP Tine / EP Reed / Clav |
| Pipe organ (v1.1) | Principal 8' / Stopped Flute / Open Flute / Gamba / Trumpet Stop / Oboe Stop / Vox Humana / Principal Chorus / Full Organ / Cornet |
| Acoustic (v1.1) | Trumpet / Horn / Trombone / Clarinet / Oboe / Sax / Flute / Violin / Cello / Harpsichord / Nylon Guitar / Piano |
| Bell / mallet (v1.1) | Glass / Bell / Tubular / Marimba / Xylophone / Vibes / Celesta / Music Box / Steel Drum / Gong Tone |
| Spectral (v1.1) | Saw 2H / Saw 4H / Saw 8H / Saw 16H / Even Only / Octaves / Octaves+5ths / Formant 4 / Formant 8 / Formant 16 / Formant 32 / Comb 4 |
| Chip / bass (v1.1) | Chip Tri / Chip Saw / Chip Wave / Chip Pulse 33 / Chip Bass / Sub Octave / Soft Square / Fat Bass / Pluck Bass / Boom Sine |
| Growl (v1.1) | Grind / Gnash / Mangle / Chew / Shred / Riddim / Gurgle / Snarl / Crunch Saw / Filth / Rip / Belch / Hydra / Scrape / Wreck / Chaos FM |
| Your own | User 1-8 / Add 1-8 / Resynth 1-6 |
Scales (Scale on the ARP page)
Chromatic / Major / Minor / Harmonic Minor / Melodic Minor / Dorian / Phrygian / Lydian / Mixolydian / Locrian / Major Pentatonic / Minor Pentatonic / Blues / Japanese (In) / Hirajoshi / Ryukyu / Whole Tone / Phrygian Dominant / Hungarian Minor / Double Harmonic / Neapolitan Minor / Lydian Dominant / Altered / Diminished (H-W) / Diminished (W-H) / Bebop Dominant / Major Blues / Egyptian / Pelog / Iwato / Kumoi / Epic / Romantic
Key Bloom (FX) has its own list: Major / Minor / Harmonic Minor / Melodic Minor / Dorian / Phrygian / Lydian / Mixolydian / Locrian / Major Penta / Minor Penta / Blues / Whole Tone / Chromatic
Note values (Sync choices)
From 16/1 to 1/64, with dotted (.) and triplet (T) values. Examples: 1/4 = quarter note, 1/8. = dotted eighth, 1/16T = sixteenth triplet.
Mod Matrix destinations
There are 385 destinations, grouped by target in the menu (OSC 1 ▸, Filter 1 ▸, ENV ▸, FX ▸ …). The main ones:
- Per OSC: Pitch / Level / Pan / Uni Detune / Uni Spread / Uni Mix / Filter Blend / Link1 and Link2 Amt / Wt-Position / Intensity and more
- OSC1-6 together (All): Pitch / Level / Pan / Uni Detune / Uni Spread / Uni Mix / Filter Blend
- LFO: LFO > Pitch Amt / LFO > Cutoff Amt (1-6, and all together)
- Filters: Cutoff / Reso / ENV Amt / Drive / Pan / Morph
- Envelopes: times and Sustain
- EQ1-6: Freq / Gain / Q
- Effect controls, NOISE / STRING / METAL, Voice Level
Troubleshooting
| Problem | What to do |
|---|---|
| A note keeps sounding | Press PANIC in the header. It can rarely happen, for example while turning knobs as you play. |
| CPU is too high | Lower Quality (Live) or FX Quality in GLOBAL (SOURCES on the OSC page) / use fewer heavy effects (Conv Reverb, Key Bloom, Multiband) / fewer unison Voices / lower Polyphony. |
| Too loud or distorted | Lower MASTER. If the strip at the right edge of the scope turns red (clipping), check the LIMITER's Ceiling on the FX page. If SAFE appears at the top right of the scope, the sound went above +18 dBFS and the safety limiter that protects ears and speakers acted (chapter 1). Check settings with very high level, drive, resonance or feedback. The display clears when you change the sound or press PANIC. |
| Presets do not appear | Check that Documents\WAV3PLUSCORE\Presets can be written (chapter 2, "Where files are kept"). |
| A factory sound was deleted | Restore Factory Presets... in the preset menu brings it back. |
| AI SOUND cannot connect | See chapter 11, "Troubleshooting", and %APPDATA%\WAV3PLUSCORE\AI.log. |
| The window looks blurry in FL Studio | Open the gear (wrapper settings) on the plug-in window, turn on DPI aware, then save the song and restart FL Studio. |
File locations
| What | Where |
|---|---|
| Plug-in | C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\WAV3PLUSCORE.vst3 |
| Presets | Documents\WAV3PLUSCORE\Presets |
| MIDI made by the AI | Documents\WAV3PLUSCORE\MIDI\AI |
| Settings (skin, zoom for new instances, MIDI Learn, AI) | %APPDATA%\WAV3PLUSCORE |
| AI communication log | %APPDATA%\WAV3PLUSCORE\AI.log |
Terms of use and disclaimer
- Using your sounds: sounds made with WAV3+CORE and its factory presets may be used freely in your music and other works, commercial or not. No credit or notice is required.
- Redistribution: please do not redistribute or sell WAV3+CORE itself without permission. It is distributed only through the official website (wav3pluscore.com).
- AI SOUND: the AI services used with AI SOUND (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others) are subject to their own terms of use and pricing.
- Disclaimer: WAV3+CORE is provided as is. W3PC Audio accepts no liability for any damage arising from its use.
Watch your volume WAV3+CORE gives you a lot of freedom, so some settings can produce very loud sounds, strong bass, frequencies too high or too low to hear, or strong resonance. These can damage speakers, amplifiers, headphones, audio interfaces and other equipment, and your hearing. Start sound design at a low volume. Keeping the final LIMITER (chapter 7) on is recommended.
Licenses and credits
- WAV3+CORE © W3PC Audio
- Made with JUCE.
- VST is a registered trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies GmbH.
- Other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Version history
| Version | Date | Changes |
|---|---|---|
| 1.6.0 | 2026-11-08 | A new look (metal knobs, an LCD value window under every knob (click once to type a value), lit select buttons and On rockers; the header has six pages OSC / FILTER / MOD / FX / ARP / VIEW, a RESET... dialog and ↶ ↷, and a faint level meter behind the scope; GLOBAL and MIDI moved to SOURCES on the OSC page). VIEW page (five skins Graphite / Snow / Vintage 70s / Vintage 80s / Warm Graphite, Zoom, keyboard Normal / Compact / Hide). Preset window (click the LCD: BROWSE (search, ALL / FACTORY / USER, categories) / SHARE (coming soon) / AI SOUND). Mod Matrix: 40 slots, a destination picker with search, Sync per slot (modulation now works on Rate / Time / lengths while they are tempo-synced; Step snaps to note lengths; per-LFO Step: Instant chooses whether a song-locked LFO waits for the bar or switches at once), cables (Ctrl) and MOD LIST, a pop-up on modulated knobs, and ASSIGN mode. More sources by right-click (the VEL / NOTE / AT buttons right of the keyboard, the OSC rows, the wheels, ARP MOD, External). New knobs OSC Pitch, LFO→Pitch and AMP Level. FX Filter (the 26th FX, with Stages / Voice), the FX page as a scrolling rack, Chorus Voices (1 to 8 lines), and Chroma renamed KEY BLOOM. Undo / Redo, the FILTER / AMP order, Filter ENV Mod Only, Analog (experimental), Pre Limiter as a Mod Matrix destination, a new EQ knob layout, mouse wheel on drop-downs, and Import WAV... / New Additive... in the Wave A–D menus. AI SOUND knows the new features (it can also draw LFO Custom shapes). Older songs and presets load with the same sound (exception: in songs where the Mod Matrix modulates a tempo-synced FX Rate / Time, that modulation did nothing before and now moves, as Smooth). KEY BLOOM Played Notes now rings over the release of the whole chord, and factory preset 277 has a deep Smooth reverb. Many fixes, including FX / MASTER values that stayed modulated after setting the Mod Matrix Range to 0. |
| 1.5.0 | 2026-11-01 | UNISON CHORD (rebuilt UNISON ARP: spread the unison voices over chord tones with Chord, or over the keys you hold with Played; Strum / Converge / Arp Link / Arp; an On switch per plate). Harmonic morphing (Morph = Harmonic). External input modulation (the sidechain level as the Mod Matrix source External; not available in FL Studio). Pitch Quantize per oscillator. PRE LIMITER (a second limiter you can place anywhere in the FX CHAIN, before the MASTER volume), and FINAL EQ moved to the bottom of the FX CHAIN. LFO shapes for Chorus / Flanger / Phaser / Hyper (8 shapes and a hand-drawn Custom), an On switch per Mod Matrix slot, Legato Chords in Chord Memory. VIEW: Remember Page (reopen on the page you left), Frame Rate (60 fps) and GPU Rendering. Raising the filter Drive no longer lowers the volume, and Ladder / Diode / Scream distort much harder above 30% (Ladder / Formant / Vowel / Diode / Allpass; older songs and presets that use Drive get louder, and the factory presets were re-levelled). REVERB Classic Mod; CHROMA / RESONATOR now hear the whole chord even at polyphony 1. Many fixes, including the comb-like sound of distortion in parallel blocks, ARP Sync note bursts, recovery from NaN and safer loading. |
| 1.1.0 | 2026-10-25 | 80 new built-in waves and presets that use them. REVERB Type (Smooth) and Mod, DELAY F.Pos (Loop), Mod, Diffuse and Drive, oversampling and anti-aliasing for Distortion / Saturator (FX Quality on the GLOBAL page), COMPRESSOR Knee, LIMITER Attack and lookahead (Look), Env Start, 0.1ms Attack, Scale Lock and Keys, NOISE Follow AMP ENV, MIDI Learn from a knob's right-click menu, AI SOUND can draw waves (WAVES). A last-stage safety limiter that protects ears and speakers (+18 dBFS, SAFE under the meter). Faster preset switching, new knob and ENV panel design, and window resizing that follows the DAW. Fixed combo boxes for choices with reserved slots (Conv Reverb IR, Distortion / Saturator Type…) selecting the wrong item, and places that could crash. Info-only dialogs now have just an OK button. Older songs and presets load with their original sound (only Distortion / Saturator get cleaner with FX Quality 2x). |
| 1.0.1 | 2026-10-20 | Fixed the pitch of 41 factory presets (mod matrix CURVE). AI SOUND now picks the CURVE from the source. Added the website and contact e-mail to the plugin info, and a thumbnail for DAW plug-in browsers. |
| 1.0.0 | 2026-10-18 | First public release |
Version 1.6.0 · 2026-11-08 · W3PC Audio · wav3pluscore.com