Questions about Waves Ltd.

[dachay2tnr]

Anyone familiar with the Waves Ltd. line of products?

I have read very good things about them, but I find the prices hard to believe. They seem to offer a line of plugins (compressor, eq, reverb, etc.) with prices ranging from $300 - $1000 and up. Could they possibly be worth it?

Also, I'm confused with some of the terminology they use - like PC Native and TDM. Anyone able to clue me in as to what these refer to?

Aren't these just DirectX Plugins? Can they be used in Cakewalk or Wavelab?

I'm not sure I'm ready to poke out this kind of money, but they have peeked my interest.

 

[bball jones]

This software was the stuff, I think, sounded best to me when I d/l'd a bunch of different processing demos to try. These plug-ins work rather well with cakewalk, matter of fact, at one time I can remember when you could buy Waves products from the CW website. For most needs I think either (or both) of the two Native Power Packs would be the way to go. I think they are around $350-400 or so.

 

[Jon X]

Native is probably what you want as they are the DirectX versions. The TDM ones are for a ProTools TDM system and such. The native ones can be used with any programs that supports using DirectX plugins.

 

[guhlenn]

native=PC
TDM=MAc

there you go.

and they are pretty expensive...

guhlenn

 

[Track Rat]

I have the Waves plug ins and it's first class stuff. Very good sounding. The C-4 compressor is especially nice.

 

[Daddy Longstroke]

Native=formats that require cpu including vst,mas,rtas,direct x-mac, and p.c depending on the format i.e mas is motu's thing and is mac only.

TDM= made to run off of pro tools mix cards(tdm system)

Waves is well worth it as is some stuff by bombfactory and especially t.c. works.

I have found software to be very flexable,and as expensive as waves is its MUCH cheaper than theyre hardware.

Bear in mind though that even 2 reverbs can kill your cpu, and they wont sound as good as herdware.But for compressers and eq as well as other modulation tools youll get a whole lot, and be able to use the in excess of doule digits easily(thats when no reverb is involved).

I'd say you at least need the native power pack.Unless you have $10,000+ dollars of outboard gear the waves native gold bundle is essential.But even in that instance youll still need hardware reverb.