Waves V10

Saw this coming...

BobF
$201 extends Gold and individuals to 2020 ... but the release show nothing exciting.
 
Maybe the incrementals along the way would be worth it.  Meh ...

Gold added 2 new plugins (800 piano + Kramer drum)

KingsMix

BobF
$201 extends Gold and individuals to 2020 ... but the release show nothing exciting.
 
Maybe the incrementals along the way would be worth it.  Meh ...

Gold added 2 new plugins (800 piano + Kramer drum)

Many plugins were added since I first bought it

 

i just bought 9 a few months ago.....
wup expired.
 
why should i bother?

batsbrew
i just bought 9 a few months ago.....
wup expired.
 
why should i bother?

I WUP every 5 years & always when they're on sale. Last time Mercury, AB, SSL was  $180.00.  I used the 'trick' to extend them all for a 2 year coverage total.

so, i don't need to think about this for another 4.5 years.

KingsMix
 
How do we update and activate only WUP included products , as opposed to all plugins?
Don't want to accidentally hose all my waves plugs.
 
Thanks in advance.

Yes I noticed that Waves Central was offering to update all plugins even those outside of WUP!
 
So I went to the website under My Account and My Products. I clicked "get update" (or something like that) on the first item that still had WUP and it came up with a list of only the items that were still within WUP.
I was then able to select all of those items and click on upgrade.
 
It immediately said upgraded and I was then able to open Waves Central and those products were already in the list under Install and Activate.
 
A bit convoluted and I can't help think that Waves are doing this to make people think they need WUP on everything or accidentally update everything and then find half their plugin no longer work! 

I have updated (and uninstalled version 9)what I had and it seems to have caused both SPLAT and Cakewalk by Bandlab VST scanner to hang after several attempts and a couple of reboots it seems to have scanned everything.(I suspect Codex was one of the plugins not cooperating)
 
Once I got the scan to complete the things I have tried work fine so far.
 
Everything scanned fine the first time in Komplete Kontrol.

What is actually new in V10 though?

I saw that but other than adding two plugins these updates barely seem worthy of a version upgrade. Basically bug fixes.

Improved: Waves Tune Real-Time CPU performance.

Fixed: Plugins' 'About' boxes could not be closed under macOS 10.13.

Fixed: Possible GUI corruption on Windows systems with Intel HD graphic cards.

Fixed: Abbey Road Vinyl noise not completely off when set to -inf.

Fixed: Scheps Omni Channel issues with saved parameters using Reaper and Studio One.

Fixed: Scheps 73's Preamp and Drive knobs lose sync when automated together.

Fixed: Wrong automation names for VU in/out in SSL Channel.

Fixed: PRS SuperModels various bugs.

They’re calling it “10” to get everyone on board and then move swiftly to “11” in one year and a day.

I updated my plugs that are still under WUP.  However, they are masked by their V9 counterparts.  The only way to free them is to uninstall the V9s, BUT I can't selectively do that.  The only option is to uninstall ALL of the V9 Waves plugs.
 
****ers
 

Oops! My bad!  Uninstalls ALL V9's.
 

Just thought I'd share what I'm seeing with this. 
 
I have a pile of plugins still under WUP and a pile of plugins not under WUP.  On the Waves site I updated all the WUPed plugins licenses.  The site had a list of everything that was still under WUP, I checked them all and did the license update.  I installed the new Waves Central.  Then I transferred all the new licenses to my USB thumb drive.  Then I installed all the V10 plugins Waves Central listed for me but I declined all the offers to uninstall V9 (since it uninstalls all V9 plugins).  I did pick the option to install and update when doing the install though (strange dialog early on the install process)
 
Since I only use the VST3 versions of Wave plugins, inside Cubase 9.5 and SONAR/Bandlab (tried both) everything is pretty much what you'd expect, when I load a plugin that I have a V10 license for I get the V10 version.  When I load a plugin I have a V9 license for, I get the V9 version.  But in Reaper I see two copies of every V10 plugin.  One loads as V9 the other as V10.  In SONAR and Cubase these V9 versions are hidden.  Though SONAR/Bandlab shows the old 9.92 version number in the Browser window status bar, when it loads it is the V10 version.  But in Reaper I can actually load the V9 version of plugins I have V10 versions of.
 
If you look at the two Waves plugin dirs:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Waves\Plug-Ins V9
C:\Program Files (x86)\Waves\Plug-Ins V10
 
I see bundles for every plugin in both directories.  So the V9 plugins are still there, and V10 versions of plugins I don't have V10 licenses for.
 
A while back I upgraded my Gold and a few loose Ren plugins to Gold+Ren, which let me trade in those loose licenses and get a new Gold+Ren with a new WUP at a big discount.  Buying an upgrade as a way to get new plugins plus WUP (and in this case V10) may be a better deal than just paying for WUP itself.  Depending on if you have loose licenses to plugins that make up the bundle.  I'm sure there will be more upgrade/WUP games that can get the price of going to V10 cheaper. 
 
I'm really at a loss why they released V10 with not a single updated plugin.  That seems crazy.  I'm only going to WUP if I get something out of it, and right now V10 offers nothing.  Strange.