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It might be a studio 1 and waves thing.  I got V14 to work in cakewalk after reinstalling everything 

6 hours ago, fret_man said:

Same.. has anyone gotten their Waves plugins to work?

I managed to get the v12 and v13 ones to work.  I can get V14 to work but ONLY if I place them in waves studio rack which does load.

The waves central update broke my installations. After I finish the projects that currently have Waves, I may avoid them. 

So....Decent Sampler with a tiny library?

I didn't WUP before this and remain unlikely to WUP

10 hours ago, Bapu said:

What amuses me in all this is the stance that people here are going to deinstall working plugins in protest to the change in business model by Waves.

I mean we hear of people on V13 plugs (and earlier) that say they still work.

I used RBass for about 9 years without updating. 

Was there a 25 voucher this month? I think i missed it

30 minutes ago, Fleer said:

I wonder what those guys who got Mercury last week are thinking. 
Come to think of it, I was almost one of ‘em.

Explains why sales were so good.

I don't hate this, but I definitely don't love it. Waves does have the product line to be the one stop source for plugins( excluding instruments) if you are running a profitable studio.   I think the big gamble Waves is taking is that they don't have the unique position that Adobe had. Photoshop has enjoyed the advantage of not having had a serious competitor since the 90's.  The same is true for After Effects to a lesser degree ( more powerful compositing software exists, but AE occupies a unique lane that happens to work well with their other software). It took me awhile to move on from Adobe( Resolve is better than Premier in multiple areas and Affinity photo is a notch below but usable for my purposes), but finally have a combo that works for me.  With Waves it is very different. I could never use a Waves product again starting now and not miss a step. I am sure this is true for many of us even if we love certain products ( Rvox is on most of my vocal chains ). In fact, I am willing to say most of us have individual plugins as good as or superior to every equivalent waves plugin. Most of us wouldn't be lose sleep if we were "stuck" using Fabfilter Pro L, Sonible Smart Limiter or even Newfangled Elevate instead of L2 the same way as an image processing professional would struggle if Photoshop got yanked overnight. 

I get the theory behind subscriptions. It forces upgrades when customers would be content to skip version or wait, and thus making income more predictable. In this case, it may blowup. I simply don't need Waves and I am sure I have at least 5 years with my current versions. More than enough time to replace Waves with plugins I likely already have. I started playing with Bassmint more today.

On 3/25/2023 at 7:41 AM, Bapu said:

I wonder how many anti-sub users have a Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, Paramount+, Hulu etc account? 😉 

Not even close to the same thing.  

Glad I haven't WUPed . 

Nah. I'm good.

4 hours ago, Technostica said:

You won't get Convology as it comes with the Suite version.
I doubt you will get CoreFX either as it's a separate serial number.
Also, you won't get bundled extras with Sound Forge as you will if you buy direct.
They strip it down to the basics.

 

I'm not sure if that's true. I bought one of these bundles a couple of years ago and soundforge was a couple back but came with standard set of add-ons even though these things were not listed individually. You are right that they gave separate serial for it, just like when you buy it regularly.

@Brian Walton sadly I agree. Like you, I have always felt empathy for those who have been begging for staff view improvements, while feeling it would be an impractical allocation of resources that ignores the needs of things more in demand

7 minutes ago, Brian Walton said:

Well, not on sale at the moment, so don't know if I'd agree with that.  But it is a solid choice when it does go on sale (and with discounts).

 

I'd expect Kirchhoff EQ to eventually get to compete in the price point.  I grabbed it as a forever 29 deal and I'd imagine some may prefer the interface and arguably the sound.

Oops..i misread "autoequalizer" and thought it said "autodynamic". My fault

MAutodunamic EQ is not only the best bang for the buck at this price, it can emulate any of the eqs found in Melda'sTurboEQ. 

Oops...wrong eq

Does anyone knows how this compares to the melda hack version posted by Paul the third?

This version of autotune is trash, even on sale. I for it for free and still don't use it.

I still use AD 1 and it still slaps. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Maybe if I did more rock or folk stuff I might see it differently. 

Just to be clear, graillon is not better or even equal to autotune. If you have a lot of rappers or modern rnb/trap based pop singers to record, it will pale in comparison, but it is great if you only have occasional needs for the effect

15 minutes ago, ALC said:

FYI, crispy tuner is still not Apple Silicon native.

Was not aware since I am on windows.  Even more reason to give Graillon a look as a budget alternative.  I blame apple for making software companies jump through hoops. I use both windows and mac and it it sometimes frustrates me that i go through this with mac every few months but i have windows vsts that i originally got for win 7 that stull work.

12 hours ago, Fleer said:

Been waiting for a good sale on this one from Auburn Sounds. Also looking to get their Graillon 2. 

Graillon is one of the better autotune alternatives imo. It has a very warm sound compared to other autotune type plugins. I think crispy tuner (when bought in sale) is a better deal than regular price graillon, but still an option.

Hmmm

3 hours ago, Toffo said:

Download each file 10 times so that hopefully IK gets the message that charging customers to re-download their own bought content is counterproductive.

That's petty but I approve

10 minutes ago, antler said:

If you do, don't forget to download all of the sounds within the download-window.

Thanks. Almost forgot. I definitely need a drive for this