Waves updates Dec 7 - get from waves central

December 7th, 2016

The new Primary Source Expander available separately as well as in Mercury, Pro Show and SD7 Pro Show.

IR-1, IR-L, IR-360, IRLive: Significantly improved CPU consumption on SoundGrid (x2.5 on average).

Abbey Road Plates: Clicking with the mouse on control scale marks now works well.

Abbey Road Plates: Fixed minor initialization issue when toggling between plates.

CLA Bass, CLA Drums, CLA Effects, CLA Guitars, CLA Unplugged, CLA Vocals: Added control mapping for Avid S6 control surface.

CLA Guitars: Fixed sound initialization issue.

Maserati VX1: Fixed sound initialization issue.

EMO-Q4, EMO-F2, EMO-D5: Fine-tuning plugin controls (by clicking CTRL/CMD) now works on all controls.

EMO-D5: Improved smoothing of sound changes while adjusting controls and during automation.

Greg Wells MixCentric, Greg Wells PianoCentric, Scheps Parallel Particles, IMPusher: Fixed unwanted small fade-in at the beginning of the audio in Logic Pro X.

Greg Wells ToneCentric: Various minor bug fixes.

Greg Wells ToneCentric: Smoother sound changes while adjusting controls and during automation.

MaxxVolume, MV2 and OneKnob Louder: Smoother sound changes while adjusting controls and during automation.

NLS Non-Linear Summer: Improved smoothing of sound changes while adjusting controls and during automation.

REDD: Channel selector now works properly.

Renaissance Equalizer: Minor graphic fix.

UM225 / UM226: Fixed meters display issue in the Hot Plugins panel on MultiRack.

Waves Tune Real-Time: Scale and Root are now automatable

Same here...and my Version of WC is 1.2.3.1 and the download version is
1.2.1.5...so my version appears to be newer then the one on their Website.

msorrels
I think the only way to update Waves plugins is to re-install everything.  Open the Waves Central, go to "Install Products" (middle button) choose Online, login, select online again (not sure why but that's just how it works), make sure "My Products" is selected at top of middle section, click "Move All" to add everything to the install queue (you could pick and choose ones that have been updated but I just update everything), then click install.  It will then install the updates.
 

that could be the case, but maybe someone else can confirm
 
for me at least WAVES Central never showed any way to update or even info that updates would be available

Reinstalling from online (you must use the online option) does install the most recent version, short of that I've never found any other way to update Waves plugins. And there is no way to uninstall single plugins.  You have to uninstall everything (using Wave Central) and then reinstall.
 
If you look at their change log page, they do make updates all the time.  I'd also point out that this isn't a WUP thing.  Many of my plugins no longer have active WUP but you can still continue to install newer versions up to the current major version.  So until they release version 10, your current licenses will work with all the version 9 series (assuming your plugins are Version 9, if not you'd have to WUP them to go from Version 7/8, etc).
 
If you are doing this update you may want to consider if you want to include the Multirack/Studio Rack/SoundGrid Studio stuff (they gave this away at one point so I'm guessing lots of people have it), it usually requires a reboot since it installs some audio device drives.  It's the only one I remove before installing unless I know for sure it's had an update.
 
The Waves change log page is here:
http://www.waves.com/downloads/release-notes
 

I didn't update anything and, at the top of Waves Central
it already says 1.2.1.5, but, in the "about" it says 1.2.3.1