Waves Scheps Omni Channel

[tonedef71]

I bought this Waves plugin at the end of January for the limited time introductory price of $49. Less than than four months later, Waves is offering it for the lowest price ever of $29. Is it really worth being an early adopter with Waves? I would have gladly waited just a few months if I knew they would be offering it at their rock-bottom $29 plugin price.

[jbarish]

$20 is nothing compared to the many hundreds and possibly thousands that waves purchasers from the past have lost due to Waves latest sales pricing. A better way to look at it is that you paid less than $10 a month to have early access to it.

[MogwaiBoy]

I bought this Waves plugin at the end of January for the limited time introductory price of $49. Less than than four months later, Waves is offering it for the lowest price ever of $29. Is it really worth being an early adopter with Waves? I would have gladly waited just a few months if I knew they would be offering it at their rock-bottom $29 plugin price.

I joked at the time of release "I'll wait for the $29 sale" - people told me I'd be waiting quite a long while for that. Guess they were wrong

PS. General rule is that every Waves plugin will be $29 at some point with very few exceptions. If you can wait, do so.

[tonedef71]

I bought this Waves plugin at the end of January for the limited time introductory price of $49. Less than than four months later, Waves is offering it for the lowest price ever of $29. Is it really worth being an early adopter with Waves? I would have gladly waited just a few months if I knew they would be offering it at their rock-bottom $29 plugin price.

I joked at the time of release "I'll wait for the $29 sale" - people told me I'd be waiting quite a long while for that. Guess they were wrong

PS. General rule is that every Waves plugin will be $29 at some point with very few exceptions. If you can wait, do so.

Indeed. Most vendors do not offer a price lower than the original introductory price until after at least a year or much longer has passed. Even for Waves, this early price drop was unprecedented.

[ATN69]

I did exactly the same thing. I got it at introduction and paid $49, but for me the $20 diff doesn't matter so much. It's still a good plugin and I am sure I would have wasted those $20 on something stupid anyway ..I once bought a plugin for 20$ from Sonivox and it only worked for a couple of months. That was a real waste of $20.

[tonedef71]

I did exactly the same thing. I got it at introduction and paid $49, but for me the $20 diff doesn't matter so much. It's still a good plugin and I am sure I would have wasted those $20 on something stupid anyway ..I once bought a plugin for 20$ from Sonivox and it only worked for a couple of months. That was a real waste of $20.

Which Sonivox plugin? I am curious.

[ghettosynth]

I bought this Waves plugin at the end of January for the limited time introductory price of $49. Less than than four months later, Waves is offering it for the lowest price ever of $29. Is it really worth being an early adopter with Waves? I would have gladly waited just a few months if I knew they would be offering it at their rock-bottom $29 plugin price.

I joked at the time of release "I'll wait for the $29 sale" - people told me I'd be waiting quite a long while for that. Guess they were wrong

PS. General rule is that every Waves plugin will be $29 at some point with very few exceptions. If you can wait, do so.

Indeed. Most vendors do not offer a price lower than the original introductory price until after at least a year or much longer has passed. Even for Waves, this early price drop was unprecedented.

It stands to reason that this is the expected outcome of their business model. I think that everyone is now catching on to their eventual $29 price (plus 10% coupon, plus vendor discount) so Waves isn't going to generate as many sales with an introductory price higher than $29. Thus, the $29 sales have to come sooner.

[The Noodlist]

I've learned my lesson, GAS is a terrible thing, most developers have sales, there's that much competition.

[ATN69]

I did exactly the same thing. I got it at introduction and paid $49, but for me the $20 diff doesn't matter so much. It's still a good plugin and I am sure I would have wasted those $20 on something stupid anyway ..I once bought a plugin for 20$ from Sonivox and it only worked for a couple of months. That was a real waste of $20.

Which Sonivox plugin? I am curious.

They have these so called singles plugins. It was the acoustic bass plugin. It sounds nice for being such a simple plugin. The license autorization was a nightmare and I had several contacts with Sonivox. The support was totally useless and I finally just gave up on this plug, and learned a life lesson The best support I ever got actually came from Air who is a part of the same company. Without that support it would never have worked at all. I would not buy a Sonivox plug even if they were the last company on earth to make plugs. My personal oppinion ofc.

[tonedef71]

I did exactly the same thing. I got it at introduction and paid $49, but for me the $20 diff doesn't matter so much. It's still a good plugin and I am sure I would have wasted those $20 on something stupid anyway ..I once bought a plugin for 20$ from Sonivox and it only worked for a couple of months. That was a real waste of $20.

Which Sonivox plugin? I am curious.

They have these so called singles plugins. It was the acoustic bass plugin. It sounds nice for being such a simple plugin. The license autorization was a nightmare and I had several contacts with Sonivox. The support was totally useless and I finally just gave up on this plug, and learned a life lesson The best support I ever got actually came from Air who is a part of the same company. Without that support it would never have worked at all. I would not buy a Sonivox plug even if they were the last company on earth to make plugs. My personal oppinion ofc.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing.

[tonedef71]

I bought this Waves plugin at the end of January for the limited time introductory price of $49. Less than than four months later, Waves is offering it for the lowest price ever of $29. Is it really worth being an early adopter with Waves? I would have gladly waited just a few months if I knew they would be offering it at their rock-bottom $29 plugin price.

I joked at the time of release "I'll wait for the $29 sale" - people told me I'd be waiting quite a long while for that. Guess they were wrong

PS. General rule is that every Waves plugin will be $29 at some point with very few exceptions. If you can wait, do so.

Indeed. Most vendors do not offer a price lower than the original introductory price until after at least a year or much longer has passed. Even for Waves, this early price drop was unprecedented.

It stands to reason that this is the expected outcome of their business model. I think that everyone is now catching on to their eventual $29 price (plus 10% coupon, plus vendor discount) so Waves isn't going to generate as many sales with an introductory price higher than $29. Thus, the $29 sales have to come sooner.

You are probably right. I've learned my lesson... again. I have been holding out on upgrading my Tracktion Waveform DAW to version 9 because I felt that when I upgraded at full price for the last version, the DAW was not hardened enough with bug fixes long enough before it dropped down in price. Being an early adopter does not seem to be worthwhile that often.

[ghettosynth]

I bought this Waves plugin at the end of January for the limited time introductory price of $49. Less than than four months later, Waves is offering it for the lowest price ever of $29. Is it really worth being an early adopter with Waves? I would have gladly waited just a few months if I knew they would be offering it at their rock-bottom $29 plugin price.

I joked at the time of release "I'll wait for the $29 sale" - people told me I'd be waiting quite a long while for that. Guess they were wrong

PS. General rule is that every Waves plugin will be $29 at some point with very few exceptions. If you can wait, do so.

Indeed. Most vendors do not offer a price lower than the original introductory price until after at least a year or much longer has passed. Even for Waves, this early price drop was unprecedented.

It stands to reason that this is the expected outcome of their business model. I think that everyone is now catching on to their eventual $29 price (plus 10% coupon, plus vendor discount) so Waves isn't going to generate as many sales with an introductory price higher than $29. Thus, the $29 sales have to come sooner.

You are probably right. I've learned my lesson... again. I have been holding out on upgrading my Tracktion Waveform DAW to version 9 because I felt that when I upgraded at full price for the last version, the DAW was not hardened enough with bug fixes long enough before it dropped down in price. Being an early adopter does not seem to be worthwhile that often.

I think that you have to decide which products are worth it to you to not wait. I paid twice for Reaktor 6 because I wanted it as soon as I found out about it and I upgraded my Komplete when 11 came out. Not even mad about it, not one bit. I'll pay twice again if Reaktor 7 comes out tomorrow. For mixing tools though, just no, I wait for the sale.

[jochicago]

I'm a software developer. In general, IMO being an early adopter to any consumer tech is a bad deal. From phones to software, you are paying a premium to get a buggy, unpolished version. If you just wait a bit you pay a discounted price to be on a more robust release.

Having said that, I was among those that suggested the Scheps Omni would not be $29 any time soon. When I said that, I thought maybe by the end of year around Black Friday sales. It only took till May for the discount.

The competition in plugins is really tough these days. I wonder how much longer these developers are going to stay afloat. Many DAWs ship with great plugins now, and that wasn't the case just a few years back. Developers like Waves have to innovate massively to stand out.

And even with all of that, and being frugal myself with audio plugins, I think the Scheps Omni is easily worth $70+. I bought it for $38 and I think it is a steal at $29. I honestly don't know how Waves sells it so cheap. It is to the point I fear what's happening to the company if they have to sell a newish landmark plugin at their cheap discount rate.

[tonedef71]

I honestly don't know how Waves sells it so cheap. It is to the point I fear what's happening to the company if they have to sell a newish landmark plugin at their cheap discount rate.

You bring up an interesting point. I own the full version of the Fathom virtual synthesizer plugin; the developer has stated that low sales of the synth have made it economically unviable to keep developing it further after initially offering it at a low price (and also providing a free version of it that is only limited by single voice polyphony).