Brian Walton

Agree, it is a magical little thing. It just works. It can't be adjusted for the freq it targests but I think the devs did a great job making it dead simple to use and get results that do decrease harshness on many sources. Unlrelated. I always apprecate the no-spend vouchers, but was surprised they eliminated the monthly voucher that could have stacked on this a day early.

A profitable studio is what... .01% of the vst market? I understand why they made this move but it certainly wasn't for good will towards customers. Thankfully there is only one Waves plugin that I haven't found a replacement for. Glad I started the transition away years ago.

Or you could use Cakewalk and save even more.

WOW...not even publishing how this is going to work for those that will never Sub. Will Installing Waves Creative Access Deactivate My Perpetual Licences? Waves users who have purchased perpetually licenced plugins are still theirs to use indefinitely. Users who want to continue using perpetual licences for purchased products should consult with Waves support pages before upgrading to Waves Creative Access.

Congrats WAVES, this is actually worse than I anticipated, and my expectations were beyond low. Hopefully someone comes up with an alternative to ClarityVX as that is the only thing I care about from WAVES

Respectfully, that is what we all want but is not a guarantee. I've had WAVES plugins break across more than 1 computer and more than one time which meant that without WUP getting support to fix, was not possible. Just becuase the VST3 standard doesn't change - WAVES is still capable of breaking things unless you never update your computer, launch waves central, etc. Unlike other companies, WAVES actually has a track record of occasionally breaking something.

I love the TB equalizer looks and interface. I thought it sounded pretty good until I tried Kirchhoff. Honestly I wish Kirchhoff looked like TB EQ4. For the price I'd go with TB but as I picked up Kirchhoff with forever 29 at launch, it makes a much more interesting deal. (Also have Melda's MAutoDynamicEQ)

I've thought this since I was introduced to WAVES more than 2 decades ago. Nothing new to see here. ?

Maybe there is hope they will actually give us the 53 bassman that was at the center of the launch videos. But odd they would release something new when those profiles are clearly already sitting around somewhere.

I have all the PA ones and only use the Amek anymore (the Waves SSL got replaced by the PA one years ago). But the Amek has been on sale for $25 or less with vouchers and sales so at this point it isn't exactly unobtanium. I even bought more than one licence to go beyond 3 installs. Sadly one has to WUP to even transfer a WAVES seat which I'll never do.

Did you grab the Plugin Alliance Focusrite console for free when they had the soundwide intro bundle?

Well I want it to be pretty to look at, resizable and not have WUP attached to it.... so....wouldn't work for me. ?

They are big enough and well known enough that I've wondered why they need resellers whom take a cut at this point. Yes, when I did buy them it was always through a reseller at a price better than Waves offered. Just saying that I think they reached a point where people are willing to pay $30 or not and everyone who produces music knows who they are already. The only problem with the model is if Larry decides to boycott posting their deals here, that move could hurt them. ?

I haven't taken this one for a spin (I will once it hits discount time), but I already have a couple other established options. This one shoudn't be only EQ adjustments as it has a "space" element also to simulate speakers in a room....ala DearVR Monitor. Toneboosters Morphit is more along the lines of adjusting an EQ curve (which you can vary how close you want it to match the reference curve). You could probably see what the Melda EQ can do with it.

The upgrade is for the suite, the regular version most of us have is $200 for the upgrade. I'd also argue that is far too much but not much of a deviation for how this product is treated historically. There just isn't much that can be upgraded and improved upon which makes it a tough sell. They felt pretty slow to support newer technologies, 64bit VST3 support came out 10 years after VST3 was launched I believe.

You are correct.

Yes, they are legitimate and have used them a few times. Be aware of the country you are in. Ordering from the US (like myself) ends up with foreign transaction fees/conversion rates so some sale prices can be negated depending on the scenario.

X3e was pretty solid and I see no reason it wouldn't still be. It is also potentially the last version you can install truly off-line without the need for Cake servers - so the "move on to Bandlab" isn't without giving up some scenarios. Yes, I run the latest Bandlab - and paid a good amount of money for X3 Producer then "Lifetime updates" with Platinum. I don't remember the details of when everything rolled out, but I do know that without some of the Pre-Bandlab stuff installed - I wouldn't have some of the extras that Bandlab didn't give away. (Adaptive Limiter, MB Compressor, LP EQ, etc) I do agree with the notion of using the latest version by Cakewalk as it is so much better than X3 at this point, but I also think that anyone that doens't have regular internet access on a machine and similar - it isn't unreasonable to want to have X3 as an option since Cakewalk will literally stop working every 6 months without it....and 6 months is not a very long period of time. Now still trying to run 2.2 at this point that is just crazy talk. ?

This isn't the first time this happened. They will usually offer a refund - and terminate your serials) to anyone upset if they haven't redeemed the others (by contacting them direclty). I'm sure a few people noted those products were listed but not included after purchase - thus the change.

You give them money, they give you the software listed. There are tiers of price points you have to hit to get the packages, in this case if you give them $25 or more, they will give you a copy of everything listed. Note above that some of the software packages do not include all of the "extras" one might get buying it direct. But you do get the core applciation at the version listed on the site. Some of the money in the sales goes to charity, some to humble bundle, and some to the manufacture of the products that supplied the bundle.

Hopefully not considering I'm convinced less than 20% of the user base would ever touch it (even if it was implemented well). The fact of the mater is the average musician these days - especially guitarists where Cakewalk has long been a target audience - have no use for staff notation editing. And I think even 20% would be far fetched personally. As much as I feel for those that do want this as a core copentency in the program. Cakwalk would be far better served to focus on things that any musicaion can benefit from. We look at Chord/phrase/melody tools like Scaler and this is something that beginners can use all the way up to more advanced users thanks to advanced chord substituation concepts and composition tools. Tools like this can help a beginner to even get started and it would be nice to have this type of functionality built into the DAW itself instead of a plugin. Not sure if the next update will be a biggie or not, but realistically as long as they continue to keep it free and funtional - this is already a mature platform to work on.

My referral code in the event they let you stack, as it seems unlikly to get cheaper than this mistake offer which they are honoring 20% off discount for new customers/new accounts. UP7895328

Bought from a 3rd party but Melda still let me redeem the code and did not provide warnings that I already had it. This would have been helpful so I could have gifted the redemption code to someone else. You are correct that if purchased directly from Melda they give you a warning, thus I didn't even think about it when redeeming a code.

They have so many that are named pretty close together happens to me all the time. In fact I did a double pruchase of one of the EQs becuase of this recently not realizing it was one I already had. Granted it was really cheap.

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.