Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Here's how Waves Audio, an affordable music plugin company for music producers, engineers, and music artists, snaked me into their new monthly subscription. Updating Waves plugins has always come at a cost annually (which makes no sense to me) but what made this case especially horrible is the fact that the cost to update my plugins costed more than the subscription to the platform did. Plugins I already owned became unusable (I couldn't open them) suddenly because they "needed an update" and as a result I was forced into the "demo" mode of the plugins. Not a very nice thing to experience as you're editing audio for your next project.
Here's how Waves Audio, an affordable music plugin company for music producers, engineers, and music artists, snaked me into their new monthly subscription. Updating Waves plugins has always come at a cost annually (which makes no sense to me) but what made this case especially horrible is the fact that the cost to update my plugins costed more than the subscription to the platform did. Plugins I already owned became unusable (I couldn't open them) suddenly because they "needed an update" and as a result I was forced into the "demo" mode of the plugins. Not a very nice thing to experience as you're editing audio for your next project.
