Overview

Waves Essential

Over 110 industry-leading plugins

Shape your sound with a massive collection of industry-leading audio plugins, covering a vast range of your mixing and production needs.

Vocal production and mixing plugins, including Waves Tune Real-Time, Clarity Vx, Vocal Bender, Vocal Rider, R-Vox and CLA Vocals. The classic Renaissance series. Selected analog emulations, including SSL E-Channel, CLA-76 and Kramer Master Tape. The CR8 Creative Sampler. A rich palette of popular plugins, including F6 Dynamic EQ, H-Delay, L2, PuigTec EQs, and so much more.

With Waves Essential, your essential mixing and production needs are covered—and beyond.

Features

• Over 110 industry-leading plugins
• 7-day free trial: no commitment
• All future updates included
• Select new plugins added
• Vast collection of pro-quality audio plugins
• Includes Waves Stream: Remote music collaboration service
• 2 licenses for activation on 2 machines at a time
• Cancel anytime (your subscription will stop at the end of your current period)
• Personal technical support by phone and email
• From Waves Audio, winner of the Technical Grammy Award

Specifications

Windows

• CPU
  • X64 compatible Intel or AMD CPU
• Memory
  • Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
  • 16 GB free disk space on the system drive
• Operating System
  • Windows 10 64 bit
  • Windows 11
• Screen Resolution
  • Minimum: 1024x768
  • Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024

Mac:

• CPU
  • Intel or Silicon Architecture
• Memory
  • Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
  • 16 GB free disk space on the system drive
• Operating System
  • macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14, Sequoia 15
• Screen Resolution
  • Minimum: 1024x768
  • Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
• USB displays are not supported as the primary display.