Waves

Waves is a company that makes audio plugins for mixing, mastering and music production, used inside digital audio workstations. Its catalog spans compressors, limiters, reverbs, equalizers and creative effects, along with some free plugins.

Waves offers Creative Access, a subscription that bundles a large collection of its plugins, as well as individual plugin sales and frequent promotions. The vendor also promotes Waves Online Mastering, an AI-based mastering service, StudioVerse for finished tracks, and products for live sound such as eMotion LV1 mixing console software and Tracks Live multitrack recording.

Waves is a commercial vendor serving studio engineers, producers and live sound teams. It suits users who want broad plugin coverage under one subscription or who prefer to buy single processors as needed.