10 Waves plugins worth getting ?

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cryophonik wrote: Sat Mar 12, 2022 5:09 pm Renn everything
CLA comps
Vocal Rider
Bass Rider
Trout Rider
H-Delay
Image

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Honestly, can't think of 10. Most are replaceable. But they have some unique ones:

Q-Clone — Unique at the time but recently challenged by the free Bertom EQ Curve Analyzer (https://bertom.gumroad.com/l/eq-curve-analyzer). It captures EQ curves and can apply them to anything using an impulse response. However, what makes it really unique are the presets many people have made for it: viewtopic.php?t=480211

Maxxbass — Creates harmonics to reinforce (or create a phantom) fundamental frequency. It's finicky to work with but precise. If it's too complex then look at R-Bass, which is simplified at the cost of that preciseness.

Torque — Pitch shift body separately from transient. There are other tools that do similar but the UI here is very specific so the workflow is very fast and satisfying. The results are great.

Codex — I was initially disappointed you couldn't load your own wavetables but they're excellently curated. The wavetable scanning controls are well-suited to them. Marrying digital wavetables to a virtual analog engine (basically Element) was a clever idea. It just sounds good. They eventually added the ability to import WAV wavetables. Note due to the VA engine, there's a noise floor around -98 dbFS.

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yellowmix wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 1:48 am Maxxbass — Creates harmonics to reinforce (or create a phantom) fundamental frequency. It's finicky to work with but precise. If it's too complex then look at R-Bass, which is simplified at the cost of that preciseness.
Blue Lab Audio – Infra
Infra creates a phantom fundamental to increase bass perception.
Blue Lab Audio plugins are now free, if you can find them.
https://www.kvraudio.com/product/infra- ... io-plugins
https://freevstplugins.net/blue-lab-audio-infra/

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I like their imaging stuff, S1 Imager, Center, and Doubler are all amazing.

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iloveplugins2 wrote: Mon Mar 14, 2022 3:11 am I like their imaging stuff, S1 Imager, Center, and Doubler are all amazing.
The Waves Doubler is very overlooked.

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yellowmix wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 1:48 am Honestly, can't think of 10. Most are replaceable. But they have some unique ones:

Q-Clone — Unique at the time but recently challenged by the free Bertom EQ Curve Analyzer (https://bertom.gumroad.com/l/eq-curve-analyzer). It captures EQ curves and can apply them to anything using an impulse response. However, what makes it really unique are the presets many people have made for it: viewtopic.php?t=480211
Interesting, care to elaborate?

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The Noodlist wrote: Thu Mar 17, 2022 12:24 pm Interesting, care to elaborate?


The "Pure Impulse" is called a Dirac delta impulse. 1 sample peak contains all frequencies.

You don't need any other plugin to create an impulse response. Just run the EQ over the Dirac delta and bounce it. The result is your EQ impulse response. I suggested Bertom EQ Analyzer so you can see the EQ curve.

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There are already some plugins from Waves that are pretty good, but I don't use much from Waves at the moment because there is also overlap with other plugins.
Which are worth it... hmm... certainly MaxxBass, the CLA plugins like CLA-2A but also OneKnob tools like OneKnob Pumper.

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CR8 and Cosmos are pretty cool
Ovox
Center
S1
Submarine

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Compressors and strips from the Abbey Road stuff and the API collection.

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Vocal Rider - Very natural results. Almost as close to manually riding the fader on vocals.
MV2 - Great on the drum buss and vocals. Easy interface.
H-Delay - very easy to dial in the exact delay for every genre of music.
MaxxBass - Great for adding harmonics to the midrange based on the fundamentals of lower frequencies. RennBass is very similar but MaxxBass is like the bigger brother.
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yellowmix wrote: Sun Mar 13, 2022 1:48 am Honestly, can't think of 10. Most are replaceable. But they have some unique ones:

Q-Clone — Unique at the time but recently challenged by the free Bertom EQ Curve Analyzer (https://bertom.gumroad.com/l/eq-curve-analyzer). It captures EQ curves and can apply them to anything using an impulse response. However, what makes it really unique are the presets many people have made for it: viewtopic.php?t=480211

Maxxbass — Creates harmonics to reinforce (or create a phantom) fundamental frequency. It's finicky to work with but precise. If it's too complex then look at R-Bass, which is simplified at the cost of that preciseness.

Torque — Pitch shift body separately from transient. There are other tools that do similar but the UI here is very specific so the workflow is very fast and satisfying. The results are great.

Codex — I was initially disappointed you couldn't load your own wavetables but they're excellently curated. The wavetable scanning controls are well-suited to them. Marrying digital wavetables to a virtual analog engine (basically Element) was a clever idea. It just sounds good. They eventually added the ability to import WAV wavetables. Note due to the VA engine, there's a noise floor around -98 dbFS.
You can actually load your own wavetables in the form of a WAV sample at around 1sec in length. Well the time is their "optimal" suggestion. Just click in the Import button in the waveform view.

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Uhhhhhh..
Cobalt Saphira
LoAir
Abbey road Chambers
C6
Flowmotion
Tune RT
rBass
SSL G Channel
SSL other channel
PIE compressor

Those are cool
Don't F**K with Mr. Zero.

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The new Clarity is extremely useful. Years and years of my workflow cleaning up voice recordings with noise reductions/eq filters/gates is now very different and faster.

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