Waves Creative Access is the name given to Waves’ new subscription set up. There are two subscription tiers, Waves Ultimate or Waves Essential. The right one for you depends on your needs as a producer:
Waves Ultimate gives you unlimited access to more than 220 of Waves’ plugins including all the ones recommended in this guide. For the length of your subscription you will receive the latest updates to your plugins and any newly-launched plugins will be yours. Waves Ultimate costs $25 per month.
Waves Essential is cheaper at $15 per month, but you’ll only have access to 110 plugins and you’ll get select new plugins launched in the future, but not all of them.
Subscribers to both membership tiers also get 2 months access to the Splice Sounds+ sample library, plus StudioVerse, a new collection of artist-designed, mix-ready plugin chains. AI recommends chains based on your sound, and there are easy-to-use macros for fast adjustments. This is an open platform, too, so everyone who uses it can add more chains.
You can cancel your subscription at any time, but if you do, you’ll lose access to your plugins. Currently, if you sign up for a year, you'll get 12 months for the price of 10.