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Waves Central is sometimes a mess for me, and sometimes works flawlessly. Other than that, the only WUP I had to pay over the years was 14$ to get the upgrade to Waves Elements V2. Everything else is working with current version.
 
Waves Central is sometimes a mess for me, and sometimes works flawlessly. Other than that, the only WUP I had to pay over the years was 14$ to get the upgrade to Waves Elements V2. Everything else is working with current version.
I have not fallen into the WUP lane once yet, though there are some things that come with the Gold bundle now that I do not have

But I purchased Codex on the current offer, and Waves got me last week with BSS DPR-402 as well..
They get me a lot ugh o_O
 
... Did you create an offline installer the way the link says? I tried it but still got an error.
In that situation, you might have to uninstall all of your Waves plugins and reinstall from scratch. Waves support staff once sent me detailed instructions on this -- it turns out that uninstalling in either Waves Central or Windows Control Panel can leave things behind that get in the way of a successful reinstallation. Anyone who decides to follow this path can PM me and I'll find the instructions. If I recall, they are Windows-specific.
 
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I have not fallen into the WUP lane once yet, though there are some things that come with the Gold bundle now that I do not have

But I purchased Codex on the current offer, and Waves got me last week with BSS DPR-402 as well..
They get me a lot ugh o_O
I think most people are not aware that when you pay WUP, Waves send you a voucher for the same amount that can be used on another purchase. So, the only 14$ I ever paid for WUP allowed me to upgrade to Elements 2 and to get a discount on another product. Not so bad.
 
I think most people are not aware that when you pay WUP, Waves send you a voucher for the same amount that can be used on another purchase. So, the only 14$ I ever paid for WUP allowed me to upgrade to Elements 2 and to get a discount on another product. Not so bad.
Yes I was not aware of this, makes me want to WUP every year now ;)

Weird as that may sound :roflmao:
 
Waves know very well that a lot of people use cracked plugins from their company. I bet that's why. Very clever, what they are doing!
Yes, I shall confess that at some point in the past I was one of those people.
Little did I know I could get so many industry standard plug-ins for such a good value ALL the time ;)
 
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Hmmm... I have Horizon plus additional plugins (SSL, etc) on my main tower and Diamond plus additional on my laptop, all under the same account, and have used Waves for 4 years. I've done some upgrades in the past (and got the vouchers and used them), but also held off on several upgrades for stuff I now don't use. When v10 came out which is a major upgrade, I did WUP for those things on a few separate plugins, but also used a bunch to just get up to Horizon so all that would be in v10. I haven't lost anything, my older v9 are still there and usable if i want, which I usually don't. Nothing is lost.

I don't mean this to be a "hey, what are you doing wrong" reply, but I will defend Waves that they are not a scummy company looking to rip people off and therefore requiring us to seek out a trade commission, like was said at the start of the thread. They are trying to survive in a very proprietary market that doesn't exactly catch the attention of most households in the world, like food and cleaning product companies do. TBH I didn't read every reply so maybe this reply is a day late and a dollar short... if so my apologies.
 
I’ve not had a problem yet with not WUPing and all my plugs work fine. I have several at v9.x and newer ones on v10.x
I’m sure this is due to good luck more than good management as I’ve read of some difficult experiences. I would expect contacting support should resolve the problems relatively quickly.
 
Can somebody give a definitive guide on how I can install new v10 plug-ins while keeping my old v9 plugs? I'm planning to take advantage of Waves current sale, but I also want to avoid potential headache. Thanks!
 
The Waves Central asks you when installing new plug-ins whether you want to upgrade your v9's. If you haven't WUP'ed then just tell it not to. Worked for me yesterday.

Recently did the same to install the Abbey Road Collection. You can run V9 and V10 plugins together, unless it's the same product.

I chose to upgrade to the full collection instead of buying the new Abbey Road Chambers. (was cheaper BTW) Then I installed Chambers as a V10 plugin, leaving the others as they are in V9 form.

Hope this helps.

S.M
 
I abandoned all Waves plugins because of these intransparent pricing strategies. And after I did that I discovered other developers with a far more customer friendly approach and higher quality plugins (Waves stuff seem imo often quite outdated...).
I’m almost to that point too.
 
I abandoned all Waves plugins because of these intransparent pricing strategies. And after I did that I discovered other developers with a far more customer friendly approach and higher quality plugins (Waves stuff seem imo often quite outdated...).

I would but haven't found alternatives to the OneKnob series and the Maxxbass one.
 
Sorry for gravedigging but I have to relieve my anger. Just installed two freebies from black friday actions. To do so I had to install the central than manually download the old installer and locate it in the new one since my update plan for the earlier freebie expired. For 1 plugin I had to download almost 4 GB. Thats not a good way to handle things....
 
Sorry for gravedigging but I have to relieve my anger. ..
More like trash diging pigface but whatever, your right, Waves has gotten tricky after realising they are the krack heaven like Photoshop...there are multiple scandals on their part, they fake focusrite, cheasy aximizer and lack of keeping up with AUD plugs which run on hardware like pro tools but blow waves out of the water..., you think they would alllow plugs to reach kids for free because bug rooms still pay for waves, a tax right off for them but no, waves wants to be like Avid and Digidesign..a joke
 
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