Waves Free Plugin Pack

[DrShelder]

https://www.waves.com/bundles/free-plugin-pack

[Nitrate Audio]

free is the best

[SmokeyJ628]

Do you have buy WUP?

 

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[DrShelder]

[Nitrate Audio]

well this is a nice development. i actually really like using  some of the Waves plugins. The Fairchild and Renaissance  Bass are always in use. 

Edited April 21 by Nitrate Audio

[Fleer]

No WUP, all glory

[jesse g]

You will be able to install these plugins at no cost to you now, but you will indeed have to pay for the update later on (WUP).

I try not to install anything from Waves because it you like it and will cost you later to keep it up to date.    

[MusicMan]

37 minutes ago, jesse g said:

You will be able to install these plugins at no cost to you now, but you will indeed have to pay for the update later on (WUP).

I try not to install anything from Waves because it you like it and will cost you later to keep it up to date.    

While that is generally the case and given Waves subscription only fiasco, I wouldn't 100% trust them not to do a switcharoo, these aren't being offered in the same way as normal Waves freebies:

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Plus, future updates for the Free Plugin Pack are also free!

I wouldn't be surprised if they were trying to take a leaf out of Plugin Alliance's book with their freebies, or even now Slate. I'd see them both as very direct competitors to Waves and both have free plugin suites to get people into the ecosystems.

[Starship Krupa]

6 hours ago, MusicMan said:

I wouldn't be surprised if they were trying to take a leaf out of Plugin Alliance's book with their freebies

Kilohearts, Native Instruments, iZotope, ToneBoosters, MeldaProduction, Audio Damage, Cherry Audio and IK Multimedia are just some of the companies whose product lines have included multiple free loss leaders for years.

Not having a collection of free products is the exception for plug-in manufacturers. I'm having a hard time trying to think of a company that doesn't. Which is the point, I reckon.

FabFilter, Sonible, UAD....

[MusicMan]

1 hour ago, Starship Krupa said:

Kilohearts, Native Instruments, iZotope, ToneBoosters, MeldaProduction, Audio Damage, Cherry Audio and IK Multimedia are just some of the companies whose product lines have included multiple free loss leaders for years.

Not having a collection of free products is the exception for plug-in manufacturers. I'm having a hard time trying to think of a company that doesn't. Which is the point, I reckon.

FabFilter, Sonible, UAD....

Completely agreed on all those and I use and love all of them, but I don't necessarily see them as much as a direct competition to the ones I mentioned. Apart from IK. In a lot of ways, they have a large portfolio and also do lots of emulations of effects.

Native does do some great effects, (or more accurately Softube did for them!), but you often see recording, mixing and mastering engineers going more heavily into and talking about UA, Plugin Alliance, Slate and Acustica.

The rest do really well in their own market segment though and many of those have found their perfect niche, albeit with much smaller catalogues.

And yes, they all should really.. it often really does get people hooked!

Edited April 22 by MusicMan

[Max Arwood]

I have mercury, but there’s one plugin in this free pack that’s not even in Mercury!

[Starship Krupa]

On 4/22/2025 at 3:38 AM, MusicMan said:

I use and love all of them, but I don't necessarily see them as much as a direct competition to the ones I mentioned. Apart from IK.

Oh, I thought that what you meant by "trying to take a leaf out of Plugin Alliance's book with their freebies" was that they were emulating the practice of giving away a number of plug-ins in order to draw attention to the ones that they charge for.

Which is a practice that I've benefited greatly from over the years and which has encouraged me to buy the companies' paid products. Plugin Alliance, MeldaProduction, IK Multimedia, Applied Acoustics and iZotope all have hundreds of dollars of licensing fees I've paid after being given a free taste.

It predisposes me to look favorably on their products in part because it suggests to me that the people running things at these companies might understand the importance of good will in successful marketing, that it's not so much about wringing the last drop of money out of each individual product, that the warm fuzzies will result in more than enough sales to offset the costs of producing these freebies.

So it's a smart thing for Waves to try to get into. Given their reputation, even among people who like their products, for trying to extract as much cash out of each user as they can with WUP or full-on subscription licensing. It seems with Waves that plenty of people love the products, but few people feel any good will at all toward the company producing them. They have had the practice for many years of giving away licenses around Black Friday, but that seems not to have done much to inspire good feelings.

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