Waves has announced the launch of StudioVerse, a new AI-powered system designed to help users access the full capabilities of all of the company’s plugins, along with the introduction of a new subscription service, Waves Creative Access, that includes the entire plugin catalog and and serves as the exclusive way to acquire plugins.
Waves Creative Access subscriptions include all future updates for the included plugins as well as new plugins added regularly. (Current owners of Waves plugins will continue to own the existing versions of their plugins.)
Creative Access offers two subscription levels, each available as a monthly or annual subscription:
the larger option, Waves Ultimate, includes all plugins (more than 220 and growing), at $24.99 a month or $249.99 a year; the second option, Waves Essential, includes more than 110 plugins covering mixing and vocal production needs, at $14.99 a month or $149.99 a year.
Meanwhile, StudioVerse is an AI-powered community for plugin chains that opens from within the Waves StudioRack plugin chainer. It helps users unlock the capabilities. More specifically, it’s an online network of plugin chains available directly in user DAWs, and it includes thousands of presets for entire plugin chains, with Musical AI search.
The chains are created by GRAMMY-winning producers and mixers such as Young Guru, Chris Lord-Alge, Manny Marroquin, and many others, plus hundreds of other top professionals. StudioVerse is also an open platform, where anyone can upload and share chains at any time.
The Musical AI search engine in StudioVerse is designed to recommend the best chains for users’ specific tracks. All that’s needed is to click the “Scan” button, with StudioVerse’s musical machine learning engine learning the specific track’s “Audio ID” and quickly recommending mixing chains to match the unique sonic fingerprint. In addition, users can search StudioVerse chains by free text search and using tags, classified by instrument, genre, or various sonic characteristics.
“Since we started Waves,” says managing director Mick Olesh, “our goal has always been to give all music and audio creators easy, affordable access to the largest catalog of pro-quality plugins. Now, with Waves Creative Access and StudioVerse, you have everything you need in order to inspire your creativity—instantly, always at your fingertips, so you can create with total freedom.”
Waves Creative Access subscriptions are for plugins only. Waves application such as eMotion LV1, SuperRack, SoundGrid Rack for Venue and Dugan Speech are still sold individually. Go here for more specifics on Waves Creative Access subscriptions, and here for more about StudioVerse.
