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10 minutes ago, Zo said:

No it's when you have a component that has a lot of dayz reamining , witch is the case of last cla stuff , unselecting this dropped me to 180 , and 159 from Koby 

Yes, if you are trying to buy WUP for something that the WUP has not expired, then YES, it will also go over the $240 cap

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6 hours ago, mibby said:

What do I get for that?

The non-tongue-in-cheek answer is:

a) Find out when your WUP expired

b) Go to https://www.waves.com/downloads/release-notes and read what has been updated since (note that the page initially shows v12 and you'll need to click on the tabs for v11 etc). You probably want to search the page for the bundles that you have (except the Abbey Road bundle, of course) and see which plugins have been added to them.

Example: If you have Mercury, the following plugins have been added to it over the last few years:

(2017) BSS DPR-402, X-FDBK, Scheps Parallel Particles, Waves Tune Real-Time, Greg Wells series, Primary Source Expander, Smack Attack, F6 Floating-Band Dynamic EQ, Brauer Motion, CLA MixDown, Torque

(2018) Scheps Omni Channel,  PRS SuperModels, Electric Grand 80, Sibilance,

(2019) CLA MixHub, Submarine, Infected Mushroom Pusher, Berzerk Distortion, MDMX Distortion Modules

(2020) MultiMod Rack, Playlist Rider, Kaleidoscopes, CLA EchoSphere, CLA Epic,

(2021) Vocal Bender

Like many other products, if you can wait and not upgrade right away but every 2 or 3 years instead, then upgrading becomes more effective

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7 hours ago, BassDaddy said:

Waves is and has been a subscription

Seriously, it's not, and I think that unfortunately there is some degree of "fear" factor, fueled by WUP complaints, that cause people to "subscribe" when they don't need to.

You can mix and match waves versions (e.g., run v9 IM Pusher, v10 CLA Guitars and v12 OVox) installed in the same machine and in the same DAW session and it's perfectly OK. You really don't need to WUP.

There are cases where upgrading gives something valuable (new plugins added to a bundle, support for new OS  requirements like happened for Catalina, or support for new hardware such as higher-res screens, the 2nd license, etc). If this is your case, just evaluate what you get and decide if the price is right. New plugins in 2017 is a good example of what I mean. In 2017 if you added up the (2017) prices of the new plugins added to Mercury, it is noticeably more money than a year of WUP. If you wanted the plugins you'd be better off getting WUP instead of purchasing those plugins separately.

Then, plugin prices went down and WUP prices didn't, making it less interesting. Time will tell if WUP prices come down and it will become a better deal again.

In any case, since Waves is allowing the coexistence of versions and not forcing the upgrades, WUP is something good to have as a choice.

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I still love and use my Waves plugins. V9-v12. 

I also use and love the sound of my UA plugins.  But  Waves reverb emulations, WavesTune, SSL, and API plugins are almost as good sounding as the UAD stuff. The only thing I can really see that UAD has the Waves doesn't is the Unison Technology.

Will I WUP? Eventually yes. But I haven't had a need yet. Even though Koby quoted me a great price, I just don't see a need yet.

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2 hours ago, Grem said:

I still love and use my Waves plugins. V9-v12. 

I also use and love the sound of my UA plugins.  But  Waves reverb emulations, WavesTune, SSL, and API plugins are almost as good sounding as the UAD stuff. The only thing I can really see that UAD has the Waves doesn't is the Unison Technology.

Will I WUP? Eventually yes. But I haven't had a need yet. Even though Koby quoted me a great price, I just don't see a need yet.

Now hat i have both i can fairlly say  that compression wise , uad smashes waves ... for the rest diff is there specilaly on the low def and high s and mainlybimho due to quality and upsampling ... 

Reverb wise , a lot of brands got it right , official ones (lexicon , eventide , tc ) have been consistant from'start ...

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