As it should be expected from one of the leading developers of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, Waves V15 keeps the renowned Waves plugin catalog up to date with the latest systems, while significantly enhancing features, interface and overall user experience.
Waves V15 features a significantly enhanced version of StudioVerse, the world’s largest online preset library of audio and instrument chains. This major update adds instrument chains to StudioVerse via the new plugin, StudioVerse Instruments, empowering users to play, browse and audition thousands of custom-designed instrument presets. Furthermore, the new StudioVerse Audio Effects plugin (a renamed, redesigned and enhanced version of Waves StudioRack) delivers enhanced functionality, with an upgraded user interface and improved features – all conveniently integrated within a users’ DAW. (StudioVerse Audio Effects is 100% backward compatible with older StudioRack presets and sessions.)
Waves V15 also adds new MIDI mapping capabilities to almost all Waves plugins, allowing users to map, save, and recall multiple MIDI controller settings. As an example, when a user is working out of the studio and requires a compact setup, it’s now possible to simply recall the MIDI map saved for a 25 key controller - when returning to the studio and back to an 88 keys setup, the corresponding MIDI map will just be recalled. Also crucial to improve the MIDI experience, the whole workflow is now more intuitive and natural, minimizing friction from endless CC assignments and technical hassles.
V15 also adds parameter locking to 62 Waves plugins, for easy comparison between presets. No need to undergo a tedious adjustment and tweak a preset all over again. Users now have a Lock feature that lets them scroll through presets without the need to rebalance the Input or Dry/Wet knobs.
Additional new features in specific V15 plugins include a new sidechain filter to the SSL G-Master Bus Compressor, and a new Dual mode to the H-Delay plugin, allowing users to process their tracks more accurately than ever. V15 also includes higher-resolution HiDPI GUI updates on assorted plugins, as well as core stability improvements.
With new Artificial Intelligence tools, extra plugins and added features to Waves’ existing catalogue, this update gives more power and control to users and guarantees future-proof reliability. Users can trust a mix opened in 10 years’ time, that will open and run smoothly and sound just as it did on the day it was mixed.
Waves Audio is a leading developer of audio DSP solutions for music production, recording, mixing, mastering, sound design, post-production, live sound, broadcast, commercial and consumer electronics audio markets. Since its start in the early ‘90s, Waves has developed a comprehensive line of over 250 audio plugins and numerous hardware devices. For its accomplishments, Waves received a Technical GRAMMY Award in 2011; an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award for its Waves Clarity Vx Pro plugin in 2023; and a 2024 NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Award for its Clarity Vx DeReverb Pro plugin. Additionally, its early flagship plugin, the Q10 equalizer, was selected as an inductee into the TECnology Hall of Fame.
Increasingly leveraging pioneering techniques in artificial intelligence, neural networks and machine learning, as well as the company’s three decades of accumulated expertise in psychoacoustics, Waves technologies are being used to improve sound quality in a growing number of market sectors. Around the world, Waves’ award-winning plugins are utilized in the creation of hit records, major motion pictures, and top-selling video games. Additionally, Waves now offers hardware-plus-software solutions (including its eMotion LV1 mixer) for professional audio applications, from live sound to commercial audio. Under its Maxx brand, Waves offers semiconductor and licensable algorithms for consumer electronics applications, used in laptops, smartphones, smart speakers, gaming headsets, TVs and more from industry leaders such as Dell, Google, Fitbit, Acer, Asus, Hisense and others.
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