Waves Free Plugin Pack

[Sascha Franck]

There's some pretty decent stuff in it, such as their (vastly underrated) Flow Motion FM synth. So grab it while it's hot:

Pardon Our Interruption

 

[TheTrueZoltan!]

Yeah, they lure you in with cheap prices and free stuff.

One year later comes the WUP.

Don't let these assholes fool you.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Yeah, they lure you in with cheap prices and free stuff.

One year later comes the WUP.

Don't let these assholes fool you.

You don’t have to pay WUP though. The only time you’d ever benefit is if you change from an old computer to a totally different one that needs the update. WUP prices really aren’t that bad if you time it with various bundle upgrades and sales.

I also don’t mind paying a small amount for stable plugins that are supported properly. I’ve wasted more money on plugins with persistent and unresolved bugs than WUP (which I’ve maybe spent money on 3 times in my life). There’s very few other plugins that if you wanted, you could open a 20+ year old session with and it’ll work perfectly.

WUP isn’t a scam, it’s been around years and it’s up to the user to understand when and how often they might need to pay for it.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Yeah, they lure you in with cheap prices and free stuff.

One year later comes the WUP.

Don't let these assholes fool you.

In general, I would agree. But unless you're an idiot like me, using Macs as their computers (just can't find proper ways away from Logic for a number of reasons), as @MirrorProfiles said, you hardly ever have to WUP your plugins. And even when switching from my old Mac Pro (running Mojave) to my new Macbook Air (hence requiring silicon-compatibility, as I don't want to run Logic in Rosetta mode), I was actually quite amazed that all but one of my Waves products were still just running fine (I don't use too many of them, but there's some...) without requiring any updates.

WUP isn’t a scam, it’s been around years and it’s up to the user to understand when and how often they might need to pay for it.

Every bit this.
I was completely contra-Waves for a long time (especially when they were trying their stunt to force users into subscriptions), but see above, when switching machines, apart from U-He, the Waves plugins actually resulted in the least painful transition process.
And as you said, being able to open very old projects seamlessly is something very little companies take care of, Waves however defenitely being at the forefront (possibly again along with U-He). That's worth a lot to quite some people.

 

[HomespunEffects]

Hmm. Oh well. At least it was free.

 

[Sascha Franck]

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Hmm. Oh well. At least it was free.

Might get hammered quite a bit.
I mean, this actually *is* a pretty damn good plugin freebie.

 

[Sascha Franck]

After some failed attempts:

So, keep on hammering!

 

[HomespunEffects]

After some failed attempts:

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So, keep on hammering!

I’ll crank on it tomorrow. Thanks!

 

[HomespunEffects]

It was all my fault. My firewall blocks certain countries and known trouble IP ranges. They could have got caught up on my ad block list.

 

[HomespunEffects]

Holy cow! Flow Motion is so much fun!

 

[volkan]

hi guys
i will give a try for gtr solo
i havent tested before
early days it was popular but nowadays is it still good
same old suite or is it updated ?

 

[Sascha Franck]

i will give a try for gtr solo
i havent tested before
early days it was popular but nowadays is it still good
same old suite or is it updated ?

I think out of this free pack, the GTR thing is the worst. Seriously, you will find better things for free.
I have only skimmed through a bunch of presets, though - so maybe there's some hidden gems, but I haven't found them.