Waves | CR8 Creative Sampler Plug-in Waves

CR8 Creative Sampler

Create Infinite Instruments. Quicker.

When you’re cooking samples, you want to get creative quickly. The Waves CR8 Creative Sampler takes everything fun and exciting about sampling, and puts it all inside a fast, easy workflow.

With CR8 you can turn any sound into an inspiring playable instrument in seconds – with the easiest access to:

• 8 sample layers, allowing you stack and mix samples, or split them across your keys
• 5 stretching algorithms – Voice, Beats, Melodic, Harmonic and Classic – each allowing you to control pitch & time independently
• Key & BPM analysis to get you in tune and in sync with your session in seconds
• Easy Loop, Reverse, Freeze options & more, for instant control over your sample playback

In addition, you can shape color and timbre using the built-in filters and ADSR envelopes. You can drag & drop 4 powerful LFO/Sequencer modulators and 4 ADSR envelopes to almost any CR8 control.

You can also assign your keyboard’s aftertouch, velocity, mod-wheel and pitch-wheel to most of CR8’s controls, making your samples playable in a responsive musical way.

You can even browse all your loops and one-shots from within CR8, using the built-in Waves COSMOS AI-powered Sample Finder, which sorts and auto-tags all your samples. You can audition any sound from within the sampler, while the track is playing, in the context of your session. When you do this, CR8 will even choose the appropriate time stretching algorithm for the chosen sample, automatically.

You also get over 800 CR8 sampler presets, and over 2500 free one-shots and loops within COSMOS.

So now you can finally get creative – fast.

• The most creative sampler options in a fast & easy workflow
• 8 sample layers to create rich sample textures
• Stack and mix the 8 layers, or split them across your keyboard
• 5 stretching options: Voice, Beats, Melodic, Harmonic, Classic
• Play and Launch modes
• Root and BPM detection
• Drag & drop 4 LFO/Sequencer and 4 ADSR modulators on any CR8 control
• Individual Cutoff, Resonance and Drive for each sample with 4 assignable group filters
• Assign keyboard functions to CR8 controls for extra playability
• Internal sample mixer to easily mix the sample layers together
• Integrates with the COSMOS AI-powered Sampler Finder
• Over 2500 free samples (with the built-in COSMOS)
• Packed with over 800 creative sampler presets

Powerful Drag & Drop Modulators

Shape your color and timbre using easy drag & drop modulators and keyboard controls, including 4 LFO/sequencer modulators, 4 ADSR envelopes, and aftertouch, keyboard-note, pitch wheel, mod wheel and velocity control.

8 Sample Layers to Stack or Split

CR8 allows you to layer or split up to 8 samples at a time, any way you want. You can decide to trigger certain sample layers only from a certain velocity threshold; or you can split your keyboard between the different samples.

Blend Your 8 Sample Layers with Detail

CR8’s internal mixer lets you mix the 8 sampler layers with detailed control of the pitch, width and panning of each sample, plus easy access to play modes and the 5 stretching algorithms.

Choose Your Sounds in Real Time with COSMOS

CR8 includes the COSMOS AI-powered Sample Finder. Simply open COSMOS from within CR8 – now you can audition all the samples on your hard drive in real time, in the context of your session – and choose the right sounds fast.

System Requirements

Mac

CPU
Intel Core i5 / i7 / i9 / Xeon / Apple M1
Memory
Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
16 GB free disk space on the system drive

Operating System
10.14.6, 10.15.7, 11.6.2, 12.1

Screen Resolution
Minimum: 1024×768
Recommended: 1280×1024 / 1600×1024
USB displays are not supported as the primary display.

Windows

CPU
Intel Core i5, i7, i9, Xeon (all Gen 5 and above)
AMD Quad Core

Memory
Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
16 GB free disk space on the system drive

Operating System
Windows 10 64 bit
Windows 11 (Build 22000.194)

Screen Resolution
Minimum: 1024×768
Recommended: 1280×1024 / 1600×1024