Do I Have to Have Waves Update Plan to Continue Using My Plugin

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Nope. Has been like this for years.

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Waves Update Plan | Waves

The complete care plan for your Waves products: Get plugin updates, 2nd licenses, VIP tech support, new plugins added to your bundles, exclusive premium content, and a cash-back coupon towards Waves software.

www.waves.com

These are the terms and conditions you agreed with somewhere along the line...

• #4

Did you deactivate these plugins before replacing the hard drive? If not, then you might be stuck with the cost of the update plan. I'm not sure how that works. One possibility is that, because your Waves account thinks the plugins are still activated on your old computer, it wants you to buy an update plan because that includes a second license for each plugin you own. If this is the situation, you could always ask Waves support staff to deactivate them after the fact.

Assuming that your plugins are not currently activated on any computer, if they are older than Version 12 you will have to jump through an extra hoop in order to download the old installer. (Waves Central only downloads and creates installers for the current version.) But in this case you only need to buy the update plan if you want to upgrade to Version 12 for other reasons.

Waves license management and the Waves Central software are a complicated and sometimes ornery beast. Many of us think unnecessarily so.

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Thanks for the replies. I upgraded my iMac from Sierra to Mojave and was getting crashes in DP10. Narrowed it down to the Waves plugins. So, I deleted them all, assuming that my "V9" versions were incompatible now. I never ran into this before, probably because everything was on my old hard drive for years and I never had to deal with it. So I paid up for the plugins I use. Now I know.

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Renamed the thread to avoid confusing anyone else.

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As a Windows user, I didn't even consider the possibility that your V9 plugins would no longer work after updating your Mac operating system. But it looks like that is what happened. And in that case, yes, Waves makes you pay for the upgrade.

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I also had an issue with my Waves plugins not working when I went to Big Sur (was still using Waves Gold Bundle V9 in Catalina). I was then forced to upgrade, but decided to leave Waves in the dust. Fortunately, my few Waves plugins that I bought separately still work (Kramer Master Tape, Puigtec)....but I will not miss the Gold bundle. Such a scam.

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I got this email earlier today about this being the last day of 25% off upgrade, so if you're going to do it I guess bite the bullet now. Unlike their plugins, they only offer this a few times a year from what I've seen. It's kept me from accumulating more of their plugins, actually. Just checked the website and its still there: WUP

Sometimes Dontcrack can match or beat these 25% off WUP deals, or so I've heard.

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I'm just about to install all my plugs on a new computer.

Do I need to deactivate the Waves ones on the old one before I proceed, or can i do it from the Waves site?
(I'm on windows luckily)
Cheers!

• #14

Waves makes you pay for the upgrade.

Apple makes you pay for the upgrade.

As they render so many programs unusable every time they update their OS so you can have a better shopping experience or see kittens videos faster... that means more work for developers of professional tools...

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When you do a fresh re-install of the Waves Center or whatever it's called, by default it's gonna install the latest versions of the plugins, which is v12 now or someting. You of course won't be able to use those and you'd have to update your upgrade plan.

So what you need to do is to NOT install any plugins, but instead download the offline installer for the older versions of the plugins, like v9 or whatever version you were on. Those are usually still usable. I never once upgraded my "plan" in my whole life and I can still use all my Waves plugins. At some point I'm sure they'll stop supporting the older versions altogether, but for now, I'm still fine.

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I stopped using waves....the WUP is a con....the few I do have are activated to a USB drive to avoid this BS.

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Apple makes you pay for the upgrade.

As they render so many programs unusable every time they update their OS so you can have a better shopping experience or see kittens videos faster... that means more work for developers of professional tools...

No, that's not the case at all. Waves plugins DO work on the latest OS, but they con you into paying for the latest version of their plugins....that have already been paid for (often more than once). It's a total scam. They clearly plan it this way.

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No, that's not the case at all. Waves plugins DO work on the latest OS, but they con you into paying for the latest version of their plugins....that have already been paid for (often more than once). It's a total scam. They clearly plan it this way.

It's not a scam. You don't understand how it works.
I have Windows and NEVER EVER had to WUP.

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