Waves moves to subscription only

Just the final great reason to never use Waves.

Just remember, that’s not being hosed: in brave new plug in pricing/sub plan worlds speak: its win win !

It looks like Avid quietly brought back perpetual licenses for their re-sellers? I think sweetwater and others stopped selling them for a while but now they're back.

It will be very interesting to see how this plays out with Waves. Of course Pro Tools is an industry standard so if anybody could force a subscription it was Avid. I don't think waves is that essential. But maybe their market research indicated otherwise?

Well, ba-bye to the two waves plugs that I sometimes use but rarely do.
Still, if perpetual licenses really are dead that's a tough pill for those who have paid for and use a few of their plugs regularly.

So what does it mean for peeps like me that use like 4-5 waves plugs? I just won’t be able to update them unless I pay for the sub?

Maybe I can finally wean off of L2. Also use vocal rider occasionally. Any vocal rider alternatives?

Same here. Two of my steadies. Voice Rider alternate?

Well we all knew something was coming down the pipeline when they kept sending emails about making sure you have everything registered before that March date of announcement.
Its not a real surprise.
It was a bit naughty when they were trying to sell me special upgrade deals from Diamond to the Mercury bundles.
Feel bad for those who have spent $1000’s.
So now we just sit back and wait until Black Friday sales for the plug in subscription to go to $99 for the year?

I am in the same boat. I do have a ton of Waves plugins but I rarely use them except for H-Delay and MV2. There are so many other developers making great plugins. Waves would have been better off if they had updated their code before going subscription. I don't see the point for me. I will use what I have till it doesn't work, but I won't be going with a subscription. I hate feeling like I have to pay to open older projects.
On a side note, that happened with Adobe too. Yes, they make some great stuff but I can cover it all with Davinci Resolve Studio and Serif Affinity stuff.

And i stopped even that when their update process became so fucking complicated a couple of year’s back: Waves= why bother?

Oh damn. Forgot about h-delay. Just quick and easy

For L1 style limiting, which I occasionally do on individual channels for peaky sources, I like the ghz Faraday limiter.

The PHA plugin from Voxengo replaced InPhase.

UAD stuff kills the waves stuff for 76, 2A, Pultec, Fairchild, etc. I also like the VU Compressor from Sam Pura for 76 stuff.

The thing is, as a different perspective.

If I was starting again from the very beginning and I’d never spent any money on any software then ….

A Mac Studio, RME or Carbon interface.

1x major DAW (Logic, Cubase or PT)

Pair of decent monitors.

And now 1x subscription for set of plug-ins - and no more than that.

Make music - stop looking at new gear all the time.

I don’t know, it might work well for someone - it would take decades to pay in sub fees that which I’ve spent on plug-ins over the last 20 years!

I could make great music with 220 waves plug-ins or UAD sub or the Slate sub etc etc - one set should be enough.

Yeah. if I was starting a fresh that might appeal greatly.

Now where was I, oh yes listing my 35 different reverb plug-ins so I can remember them all when I come to mix my new tune.

Waves' Twitter is fun at the moment, with disgruntled customers scaling the castle walls, and Waves' new "CLA Comment Deleter v1.0" plugin whirring away at breakneck speed.