Waves Plug-Ins?

[JayVee]

(Not Wave Arts}
Anyone using any Waves products on a Receptor?
I have the Diamond Bundle for my Mac, would love to use a few on Receptor.

: )

[JayVee]

Anyone?

[Rick@MuseResearch]

You will not be able to install the WAVES plugins on a Receptor, this is due to the copy protection.

[aMUSEd]

Just get one of these babies

http://www.waves.com/content.asp?id=1622

[JayVee]

Hey aMUSEd,
That's very cool... but a bit out of my price-range for the next little while.

Thanks,

[xander]

Just get one of these babies

http://www.waves.com/content.asp?id=1622

Yeah that one is awesome. I only wish, I just wish... I mean I wish I... $$...

[etherdesign]

Hey aMUSEd,
That's very cool... but a bit out of my price-range for the next little while.

Thanks,

Uh, it costs less than Receptor.

[james0tucson]

Hey aMUSEd,
That's very cool... but a bit out of my price-range for the next little while.

Thanks,

Uh, it costs less than Receptor.

A lot than the Waves Diamond set too, right?

I thought the appeal of Waves was the standardization -- a postproduction shop can insist that you only use certain tools on a job, so that they can reproduce everything, and this is part of that phenomenon.

I'm sure they are all pretty good, especially the stuff that works in the time domain. But $4000 good?
I've often wondered.

[DanTimis]

The list price is the same. But, I see that it is very heavily discounted right now so the street price is indeed lower.

I don't see any reason to compare the two. Unfortunately, Waves doesn't want us to run their plug-ins in Receptor, so if that's what you need, you would have to buy a Waves box. If you want to use non-Waves plug-ins you need a Receptor. There is no overlap between the two.

The Waves box has a CPU, RAM and Ethernet, like Receptor. But, it does not have a front panel with an LCD screen and several buttons and knobs. It does not have a hard drive, and it does not have a sound card. So why does it have to cost about the same?

[etherdesign]

Oh, I wasn't trying to make a comparison, the Waves box is essentially a bloated DSP card, but it's the only option for him right now for Waves plugins unless he wants to buy a Protools HTDM system.. That's a little more.

It costs about the same because Waves make it of course. People will pay whatever they see fit.

[DanTimis]

All I can say is that I wish Waves would let us run their plug-ins.

[james0tucson]

All I can say is that I wish Waves would let us run their plug-ins.

The problem is licensing, or the problem is technical?

If it's the latter, maybe an anonymous skunkworks layer of support is in order.

[JayVee]

Well...
Waves products are fantastic; that being said, I only recently purchased my Receptor ~ maxed-out the the RAM and Hard-Drive. Also bought some of the 'Premium' Plug-Ins; so I'm not in any position, financially, to invest that kind of money into signal processing.

I decided I'd pick up some of the Wave Arts stuff ~ namely MasterVerb and Final Plug. I'm satisfied with what I've experimented with.

My main application will be live performance so, while I'm knowledgable with Waves stuff, I think these Wave Arts products will do the trick for me.

: )

[etherdesign]

Oh, I didn't know you'd already purchased Receptor, my bad.

[xander]

All I can say is that I wish Waves would let us run their plug-ins.

Dan --

Why couldn't one convert the Waves plugs to VST (several converters like Cakewalk/FXpansion, etc., are available I think) and then run them in Receptor? Is it a viable work-around?

Cheers,
Alex