Free Waves H-Comp

[satya]

Waves gives H-Comp away a lot. If you somehow don’t have it yet, or you want to get the newest version, here it is.
https://waves.alzt.net/Xmd6y3

very lil time left to claim

[Sent4th]

Too late. The promotion has "ENDED".

Free H-Comp for followers of Jason Yadlovsky!

For a limited time only, Waves is pleased to offer you H-Comp as a gift.
Claim it now!

This promo has ended.

[Starship Krupa]

I wonder why H-Comp is in so many giveaways. It's a nice processor.

[Hose Gef]

I'm guessing because H-Comp is "finished". If the release notes page is to be believed, then they last made a functionality change to H-Comp in 2016.

"October 10th, 2016: H-Comp: Clicking with the mouse on control scale marks now works well."

Though that simply may have been a bugfix. Of which there were two more, plus a fairly recent HiDPI GUI refresh.

[kitekrazy1]

Most of Waves is finished. It's solid software only needing a paint job on older stuff.

Their development and business model are complete opposites.   Maybe that's why they have WUP.   I'd bet some of the plugins bought years ago still work fine.

[Starship Krupa]

10 hours ago, kitekrazy1 said:

I'd bet some of the plugins bought years ago still work fine.

So far I've not had a single one "go bad" on me. I paid for WUP once to be able to update a couple of freebies I got. I think it was $14 to take two plug-ins from v. 9 to v. 11. I think the new feature that I wanted was the resizable GUI.

Which has always puzzled me about the wailing and gnashing of teeth around WUP. Yeah, Waves are a little pushy about trying to sell it, but nobody's forced to pay for WUP. In the event that a plug-in breaks, you can jump in and WUP any plug-ins that have broken and have them updated to the latest versions.

Seems fair to me.

[bats brew]

i dig the hcomp, use it often.

 

my favorite comp from Waves, tho, is the g series SSL comp.

[MusicMan]

4 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

So far I've not had a single one "go bad" on me. I paid for WUP once to be able to update a couple of freebies I got. I think it was $14 to take two plug-ins from v. 9 to v. 11. I think the new feature that I wanted was the resizable GUI.

Which has always puzzled me about the wailing and gnashing of teeth around WUP. Yeah, Waves are a little pushy about trying to sell it, but nobody's forced to pay for WUP. In the event that a plug-in breaks, you can jump in and WUP any plug-ins that have broken and have them updated to the latest versions.

Seems fair to me.

Often overlooked, but they only provide one seat license with Waves unless you have active WUP. So once your WUP expires, you can only use on one machine unless you want to constantly be transferring licenses, or use a USB dongle.

So anyone with a DAW in the studio that also works mobile on a laptop, or second DAW in another location, it stops working completely .

I'm struggling to think of another developer that only provides one seat in this day and age. Even McDSP have evolved to give more than one! I'm sure there's others that suck in that sense, but not many at all!

[Starship Krupa]

11 hours ago, MusicMan said:

So anyone with a DAW in the studio that also works mobile on a laptop, or second DAW in another location, it stops working completely

The single seat thing is pretty stingy. Even most iLok'd plug-ins allow 2 seats. But hey, it's their business

There is a touch of redemption in the fact that you can keep your Waves licenses on a removable drive, like an SD card or thumb drive, so in theory at least, you can use them on the laptop if you tote the SD card along. That's much cheaper than having to purchase a physical iLok dongle, for which I give them credit.

The only Waves plugins I've ever used are the many freebies they've given out over the years, and since they tend to run the same freebies multiple times, I have duplicate licenses for the ones I'd be likely to use anyway. Just in case, I keep the licenses on a micro SD card.

[MusicMan]

5 minutes ago, Starship Krupa said:

The single seat thing is pretty stingy. Even most iLok'd plug-ins allow 2 seats. But hey, it's their business

There is a touch of redemption in the fact that you can keep your Waves licenses on a removable drive, like an SD card or thumb drive, so in theory at least, you can use them on the laptop if you tote the SD card along. That's much cheaper than having to purchase a physical iLok dongle, for which I give them credit.

The only Waves plugins I've ever used are the many freebies they've given out over the years, and since they tend to run the same freebies multiple times, I have duplicate licenses for the ones I'd be likely to use anyway. Just in case, I keep the licenses on a micro SD card.

That is indeed one thing they and Plugin Alliance did right. A regular flash drive instead of iLok. Apart from iLok dongle sales, there's really no reason Pace couldn't do the same.  They would probably win a lot more sales for their developer customers, but for some reason I don't think plugin and instrument companies are really their primary concern 🤣

[kitekrazy1]

11 hours ago, MusicMan said:

That is indeed one thing they and Plugin Alliance did right. A regular flash drive instead of iLok. Apart from iLok dongle sales, there's really no reason Pace couldn't do the same.  They would probably win a lot more sales for their developer customers, but for some reason I don't think plugin and instrument companies are really their primary concern 🤣

I have 3 iLoks and they don't ever move.  As for flash drives I lose track of them.

I do use their cloud on certain VSL libraries.  

As for PA they allow 3 installations.  Not sure why anyone would think the "improvadongle" is a benefit with PA. 

3 iLok authorizations are becoming more common. 

If Waves was like Melda with no machine limit I'd be happy to pay for WUP.

They still have the worse licensing in the industry.  They probably haven't recovered from the boneheaded move of a forced sub.  They lead the league in race down to zero with their crap licensing.  

I doubt I'd ever buy Waves again.  Their entry level bundles are hard to beat.  I guess you can get away with that kind of licensing when you develop great stuff.  They have to do their sales because there are smaller developers out there making great products.

[MusicMan]

1 hour ago, kitekrazy1 said:

I have 3 iLoks and they don't ever move.  As for flash drives I lose track of them.

I do use their cloud on certain VSL libraries.  

As for PA they allow 3 installations.  Not sure why anyone would think the "improvadongle" is a benefit with PA. 

3 iLok authorizations are becoming more common. 

If Waves was like Melda with no machine limit I'd be happy to pay for WUP.

They still have the worse licensing in the industry.  They probably haven't recovered from the boneheaded move of a forced sub.  They lead the league in race down to zero with their crap licensing.  

I doubt I'd ever buy Waves again.  Their entry level bundles are hard to beat.  I guess you can get away with that kind of licensing when you develop great stuff.  They have to do their sales because there are smaller developers out there making great products.

Losing track of flash drives is probably common if they don't have licenses on them, but really if they do, they're no more likely to be lost than iLok. Just simply add a tag to it, or use a permanent marker.

The dongle from PA (which I don't personally use), is good for offline and using other friends DAWs, for collabs, or getting mixing done, etc. But it's more the fact that if someone wants to use a dongle, they can pick up a cheap generic flash drive and not an overpriced iLok dongle.

3 is becoming more common. I do have a mix though and quite a lot with 2. 1 auth is strictly do not buy for me. Even ML Sound Lab who only provide a second if you contact them I opted to not buy from. I don't want to have to contact a vendor to plead my case for a second activation, even if it's not too difficult.

2+ auths out of the gate, or I'm out these days. I already have enough and what they're selling can probably be done with something else that does include 2+.

Melda is really great with their licensing and yes, Waves somehow manage to further alienate even more people with that move which was quite an achievement given the majority of people's hate for WUP!

You're not wrong on those bundles either... You do get a lot of bang for buck. Without those and the freebies, I'd imagine their sales would be much, much lower these days. It can be a false economy though.. if people do pay WUP, then for what they often spend, they could've just paid once for more premium plugins that are better than Waves and still be getting free updates. Lots of great devs out there.