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Waves Audio releases ILLUGEN 2.0, delivering studio-grade sample creation and enhanced producer control
— ILLUGEN 2.0 delivers a major sound upgrade and enhanced user control, transforming text prompts into studio-quality, original audio —
Knoxville, TN, March 31, 2026 — Waves Audio, the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, announces ILLUGEN 2.0, the next evolution of its groundbreaking sample creation app. ILLUGEN enables users to turn text prompts into entirely original musical audio samples. With a dramatically upgraded sound engine, superior prompt accuracy, and expanded creative controls, ILLUGEN 2.0 represents a major leap forward from the original release, evolving the platform into a powerful production partner for modern music creators.
ILLUGEN 2.0 now offers two selectable sound-generation engines directly within the app: the brand-new “Studio Engine,” trained to deliver exceptionally high-fidelity and musically realistic production-ready loops and samples for professional music creation, and the original “Creative Engine,” designed for boundary-pushing sonic exploration. This dual-engine approach gives users the freedom to choose between polished studio-grade output and raw sound design material within the same workflow.
Responding to customer feedback, Waves has also added three new features that represent the additions most frequently requested by users since ILLUGEN’s launch:
- Lock to Key: the ability to set and lock the musical key
- Loop Length Control: the ability to define loop length, shorter or longer loops that actually fit your track
- Stereo Control: the ability to control stereo width – from tight mono to wide stereo
Together, these new controls allow producers to generate sounds that fit seamlessly into their sessions – harmonically, rhythmically and spatially – without additional editing.
Since its launch, ILLUGEN has marked a new era of audio innovation, allowing users to turn text prompts into sound. It transforms creative ideas into unique one-shots, loops and SFX, ready for musical creation. Prompts can range from “Tight funk ’70s drums at 90 BPM” and “Melancholic toy piano melody for a trap beat in A minor” to “Haunted house violin in C#” or “Underwater synth swirls played by aliens.” No presets, no recycled samples – each result is newly generated and uniquely yours. Grammy®-winning DJ and producer Diplo remarks, “I love ILLUGEN. It lets me experiment with fresh sounds immediately and keeps my creative momentum going.”
Garnering a 2026 TEC Award nomination in the Signal Processing Software category, ILLUGEN continues Waves’ legacy of innovation with a focus on empowering producers, not replacing them. While some AI music platforms focus on automating the creative process, ILLUGEN takes the opposite approach – placing more control in the hands of the musician. With its intuitive GUI, new production controls and seamless drag-and-drop into any DAW session, ILLUGEN 2.0 becomes a powerful production instrument and creative partner – not an automated replacement for traditional workflows.
Waves is currently offering new subscribers a free 1-month trial of ILLUGEN 2.0 with full access. Users can also try ILLUGEN 2.0 for free online before subscribing.
Visit waves.com/illugen to try it now.
Videos:
“I tested ILLUGEN 2.0… here’s what’s new”: https://youtu.be/NgNV9RtQ5ss
“I tried ILLUGEN on a remix… This happened.”: https://youtu.be/xWUeg7_5OJI
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Photo file 1: ILLUGEN2_prompt.JPG
Photo caption 1: An example of a prompt given to Waves ILLUGEN 2.0About Waves Audio Ltd.:
Waves is the world’s leading developer of audio DSP solutions for music production, recording, mixing, mastering, sound design, post-production, live sound, broadcast, commercial and consumer electronics audio markets. Since its start in the early ‘90s, Waves has developed a comprehensive line of over 240 audio plugins and numerous hardware devices. For its accomplishments, Waves received a Technical Grammy® Award in 2011; an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy® Award for its Waves Clarity Vx Pro plugin in 2023; and NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity (TEC) Awards for its Clarity Vx DeReverb Pro plugin in 2024 and eMotion LV1 Classic console in 2026. Additionally, its early flagship plugin, the Q10 equalizer, was selected as an inductee into the TECnology Hall of Fame.Increasingly leveraging pioneering techniques in artificial intelligence, neural networks and machine learning, as well as the company’s three decades of accumulated expertise in psychoacoustics, Waves technologies are being used to improve sound quality in a growing number of market sectors. Around the world, Waves’ award-winning plugins are utilized in the creation of hit records, major motion pictures, and top-selling video games. Additionally, Waves now offers hardware-plus-software solutions (including the revolutionary eMotion LV1 Classic live mixing console) for professional audio markets. The company’s WavesLive division is a leader in the live sound sector, spearheading the development of solutions for all live platforms. Products from Waves Commercial Audio enable A/V system integrators and installers to deliver superior sound quality for corporate, commercial, government, educational, entertainment, sports and house-of-worship applications. Under its Maxx brand, Waves Software Licensing Division is bringing Waves’ award-winning technology into a variety of consumer-facing markets including Mobile, PC, Home AV, Education and Enterprise. Some of the largest and most prestigious global OEM brands have adopted its DSP algorithms to enhance the sound experiences of their consumers.
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