Waves Platinum to AAX.

[Rubicon]

When will waves have an upgrade path to Platinum AAX? ($$$$$)

[Dism]

Might be a question to ask Waves?

[Rubicon]

Might be a question to ask Avid.

[Dism]

Originally Posted by Rubicon

Might be a question to ask Avid.

Avid owns Waves now?

[Rubicon]

No info from waves. Avid does own HDX.

[Dism]

Originally Posted by Rubicon

No info from waves. Avid does own HDX.

Yes. But they aren't responsible for 3rd parties coding for AAX.

I heard Waves is onboard with AAX 100%. The question of when is entirely up to them.

[digidesigner]

Originally Posted by Dism

Yes. But they aren't responsible for 3rd parties coding for AAX.

I heard Waves is onboard with AAX 100%. The question of when is entirely up to them.

I have a response from Waves and according to that they are everything but 100% with AAX...

W: Our pluginns will and do work with RTAS on AAX.

Me: No DSP support?

W: At this stage only CPU.

[Dism]

Originally Posted by digidesigner

I have a response from Waves and according to that they are everything but 100% with AAX...

W: Our pluginns will and do work with RTAS on AAX.

Me: No DSP support?

W: At this stage only CPU.

At this stage... no one even has an HDX card.

Of course it will take time to crank out AAX plugins, but it doesn't mean they aren't working on it. Just because we heard about them yesterday doesn't mean developers haven't known about them or been working on them for a while.

According to Avid, they already have over 100 devs onboard with AAX, and 25 of which are showcasing AAX plugins right now at AES.

[digidesigner]

Maybe they are just waiting to see how the whole HDX thing gets going. At one end Wave has been nice with getting TDM stuff out even knowing it's dead.. then again Waves have their own real-time systems thay are developing for example to other live-console manufacturers who can now also run plugins on their live systems, so there might be some issues between the two. Or they might not reached a good deal between themselves yet, as Avid is probably charging for AAX licenses and Waves might have a different vision how much they want to pay. We never know... But I'm not getting HDX until Waves has plugs for it and reasonable upgrade price for my Mercury TDM that's for sure.

[Dizzi45Z]

Digidesigner,

That is an interesting thought. If they are charging so much for this upgrade, I can only wonder what they are going to charge other developers to be able to use AAX. If somebody like WAVES didn't jump onboard, it would definitely be a big issue.