Waves Native pricing to be retired.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
Anybody know anything more about this?
http://www.waves.com/
Is Native increasing to Soundgrid, or the other way around?
http://www.waves.com/
Is Native increasing to Soundgrid, or the other way around?
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- Beware the Quoth
- 33177 posts since 4 Sep, 2001 from R'lyeh Oceanic Amusement Park and Funfair
Reading elsewhere, I suspect they're 'merging' the separate Native/Soundgrid lines into one unified product line. I dont think that means there'll be no native plugins, but rather that there'll be no Native plugins. ie there'll be versions which still run on Windows/OSX, they just wont be called 'Native'.
https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-c ... -mean.html
It might mean the RRPs go up, but who pays RRP for Waves? Waves will blow them out cheap constantly anyway.
https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-c ... -mean.html
It might mean the RRPs go up, but who pays RRP for Waves? Waves will blow them out cheap constantly anyway.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
I didn't even consider them merging Native and Soundgrid into a single product category.whyterabbyt wrote:Reading elsewhere, I suspect they're 'merging' the separate Native/Soundgrid lines into one unified product line. I dont think that means there'll be no native plugins, but rather that there'll be no Native plugins. ie there'll be versions which still run on Windows/OSX, they just wont be called 'Native'.
https://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-c ... -mean.html
It might mean the RRPs go up, but who pays RRP for Waves? Waves will blow them out cheap constantly anyway.
I was just thinking about price.
You're right though, they constantly blow them out at ~50% off so they can't realistically bump them up to Soundgrid pricing now. I suspect most users won't even be affected. Hoping this way anyway.
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
- KVRist
- 129 posts since 7 Mar, 2014 from Moon
Exactly, not a big problem. Every weekend there's a sale and every now and then distributors have those 50/60/70% OFF.whyterabbyt wrote:It might mean the RRPs go up, but who pays RRP for Waves? Waves will blow them out cheap constantly anyway.
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- KVRAF
- 2677 posts since 20 Jun, 2012
Pretty sure it means prices will go up. At least this was the impression I got from today's marketing email.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
Pretty sure the oppositerobotmonkey wrote:Pretty sure it means prices will go up. At least this was the impression I got from today's marketing email.
The dbx160 that was released today is priced at $149 for both native and SG.
That seems normal native price to me.
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
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- KVRAF
- 2677 posts since 20 Jun, 2012
Well, the marketing spam said "save now before native pricing is RETIRED (edit)". So I would interpret it as prices will go up. Not that I care much as I have pretty much every Waves plugin I want already.Mushy Mushy wrote:Pretty sure the oppositerobotmonkey wrote:Pretty sure it means prices will go up. At least this was the impression I got from today's marketing email.
The dbx160 that was released today is priced at $149 for both native and SG.
That seems normal native price to me.
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- KVRAF
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- 15135 posts since 7 Sep, 2008
Dont know then.robotmonkey wrote:Well, the marketing spam said "save now before native pricing is required". So I would interpret it as prices will go up. Not that I care much as I have pretty much every Waves plugin I want already.Mushy Mushy wrote:Pretty sure the oppositerobotmonkey wrote:Pretty sure it means prices will go up. At least this was the impression I got from today's marketing email.
The dbx160 that was released today is priced at $149 for both native and SG.
That seems normal native price to me.
Guess we'll just need to wait to find out.
And I'm the same, apart from potentially the dbx I'm done as well.
"I was wondering if you'd like to try Magic Mushrooms"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
"Oooh I dont know. Sounds a bit scary"
"It's not scary. You just lose a sense of who you are and all that sh!t"
- KVRAF
- 4881 posts since 4 Aug, 2006 from Helsinki
That's what you say now - but as soon as new interesting plugins are launched (H-Reverb, ...) your buying reflex will react.robotmonkey wrote:Well, the marketing spam said "save now before native pricing is required". So I would interpret it as prices will go up. Not that I care much as I have pretty much every Waves plugin I want already.Mushy Mushy wrote:Pretty sure the oppositerobotmonkey wrote:Pretty sure it means prices will go up. At least this was the impression I got from today's marketing email.
The dbx160 that was released today is priced at $149 for both native and SG.
That seems normal native price to me.
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- KVRAF
- 2677 posts since 20 Jun, 2012
That's true. Actually H-Reverb is the only plugin that has generated a mild interest in me for a long time.Harry_HH wrote: That's what you say now - but as soon as new interesting plugins are launched (H-Reverb, ...) your buying reflex will react.
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- KVRist
- 264 posts since 9 Sep, 2012
Looks like a lot of new Waves users. Waves plugins have been on sale for about a year now. Its over. Thats all it means. No more 20% off for 2 plugins ect.
Is Native increasing to Soundgrid, or the other way around?
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- KVRAF
- 1724 posts since 31 Dec, 2004 from betwixt
Ah marketing.
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"You lack this... that... this deadline... You'll miss out..."
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- KVRian
- 1339 posts since 25 Sep, 2011 from New York
There is now such a thing as DEADLINE, i bought plugins from many Companies 3 days
after deadline...they HAD to honor it...not that they had to but ,,ok, if you don't
give it to me i go somewhere else'' so i'd better make 90$ instead of of 120$ then 0.
after deadline...they HAD to honor it...not that they had to but ,,ok, if you don't
give it to me i go somewhere else'' so i'd better make 90$ instead of of 120$ then 0.
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- KVRist
- 261 posts since 2 May, 2014
I don't know if it's deliberate or not, but this sure is confusing marketing from Waves. From what I gather it's two things happening;
- the 30/35/40 percent off of single plugins sale is to be retired (one hell of a way of saying a sale is ending)
- soundgrid and native are merging, one pricing
So if you buy native plugins on a sale now, you get them as soundgrid version when they merge. So if you use soundgrid, you can save MORE with the native sale that's going on at the moment, but you can save anyway when they merge. So they're luring soundgrid users to buy native versions. Maybe a couple of confused native users also..
Note, this is how I understand it, don't take my word for granted.
In my opinion it'd be incredibly stupid to raise prices of native version unless they have created a huge agreement of raising every single plugin vendors pricing.
I've said it before, and will say again, Waves would never get away with such shady marketing in the corners of the world I live in.
- the 30/35/40 percent off of single plugins sale is to be retired (one hell of a way of saying a sale is ending)
- soundgrid and native are merging, one pricing
So if you buy native plugins on a sale now, you get them as soundgrid version when they merge. So if you use soundgrid, you can save MORE with the native sale that's going on at the moment, but you can save anyway when they merge. So they're luring soundgrid users to buy native versions. Maybe a couple of confused native users also..
Note, this is how I understand it, don't take my word for granted.
In my opinion it'd be incredibly stupid to raise prices of native version unless they have created a huge agreement of raising every single plugin vendors pricing.
I've said it before, and will say again, Waves would never get away with such shady marketing in the corners of the world I live in.