Making Waves (MW) is computer software designed to produce professional quality audio from basic Windows multimedia PCs.

This same dynamic user community played a significant role in the application's development, suggesting program revisions and performing extensive beta testing.

The early commercial success of this embryonic digital audio workstation (DAW) was relatively brief and seemed to build on two significant events, the release of a stable graphical user interface (GUI) version and the production of a "hit" record and album by an independent artist.

First, with the release of the 32-bit Making Waves Studio version in April 1998, Perceptive Solutions had a product compatible with the Windows 95 GUI.

[3]" While still available for sale, Making Waves lacks a 64-bit version, is not approved for use on Windows 8 and is no longer being maintained following the death of the original developer in 2011.