![]() It was crap like waves that gave nebula (over hyped) a good name back then, when algo plugs could be, and now are, much much better. One or two weird exceptions to this but the majority of their plug-ins are, as I said, sonic trash dressed up with branded names and badges. Waves 'sound' is a thing when used heavily on a mix, and it's not a good thing. To buy anything waves over the likes of Black Rooster, Fab Filter, Fuse Audio, Slate, UAD, Softube, Kush/Slyfi, Relab, Lexicon, Eventide and many others is not doing your music any good. $29 or $290 is wasted money if you buy waves when every single thing they do has a better sounding, better GUI'd, less intrusive (waveshells/wup/other) plug-in out there. They continue to exist only off the name they built for themselves back in the dark days of plugs where waves were some of the highest quality (not saying much). ![]() Waves plugs, especially "analog emulations" sound like sheer trash next to modern competitors. You may as well get even low income beginners to buy in and saturate the market before you either kick off or release new plugins. The market of pro studios willing to spend that kind of cash on plugins which are by todays standards are mediocre at best when you consider the competition. If they can get a hundred sales at a low cost its the same as 2 or three willing to spend thousands like they used to charge. Its doesn't cost anything to take peoples money and let them download a file. may as well clean out the cupboard before closing down the distribution. I also thing the plugins that simply had a GUI improvement have run their course after 18 years or so. This gets people addicted to using them so they will want the new and improved versions that sell at a premium cost. ![]() Companies often dump their old stock at budget costs before discontinuing them. I suspect the company is either folding its tent or its has a new line of plugins coming out. I can say many of them still do a masterful job over the competition. They don't appear to be coming out with anything spectacularly ground breaking like their original plugins were. Given the initial costs on their bundles I think the initial development costs were likely pad for with very good profits. The older ones are not 64 bit compatible which I figured out too. I think many of their newer plugins simply had a face lift with new GUI and maybe a few added tweaks. I still have my original set from around 2000?
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