Waves Audio has released an incredible free plugin pack, featuring 9 powerful VST plugins for music production, mixing, and sound design – all at no cost. The new bundle is ideal for producers, audio engineers and sound designers looking to enhance their auditory projects with professional-grade VST effects (and some good quality synthesizers).
Whether you’re creating cinematic soundscapes, crafting contemporary hit tracks and beats or fine-tuning experimental mixes, the Waves Free Plugin Pack will offer you with some very handy, quality tools. With plugins for EQ, saturation, reverb and compression as well as two synths – this bundle provides an essential set of tools for producers, allowing artists to expand their sound design capabilities and explore new creative horizons.
What’s Included in the Waves Free Plugin Pack?
The Waves Free Plugin Pack includes some of Waves’ most sought-after plugins, such as the V-Comp vintage-modeled compressor/limiter inspired by the legendary Neve 2254 hardware unit, which typically retails for $149. Another standout is the V-EQ3, a Neve style 3-band equalizer unit known for its smooth tonal shaping (also valued at $149). The Flow Motion FM Synth, normally priced at $99, offers over 1,000 presets and deep modulation capabilities.
I want to specially highlight the GTR Solo and IR Live plugins. The first is an amp cabinet simulator, that in addition to high-end amplifying capabilities, has 4 vintage sounding audio effect slots. It also offers a built-in guitar tuner as well as a range of usable factory presets.
IR Live is a quality, straight-forward convolution reverb plugin designed for live sound performances and studio production. It captures real-world acoustic spaces, offering authentic impulse responses optimized for live performances with real-time, low-latency processing and presets.
These high-value plugins, now available for free, provide unparalleled tools for professional-grade music production and sound design.
The complete list of VST plugins included in the free Waves bundle are:
- Magma Lil Tube – analog tube saturation, perfect for adding tube warmth and harmonic character to vocals, guitars and other tracks.
- IR Live – a convolution reverb plugin that is able to create realistic psychoacoustic effects and generate a variety of sample-based spatial ambiances for your mixes. The impulse response presets offer all the way from small studio room reverbs to large concert hall acoustics and more.
- V-EQ3 – a vintage style 3-band EQ that delivers smooth, tonal shaping with classic analog character.
- V-Comp – a warm sounding analog-style compressor for shaping dynamics.
- AudioTrack – a multi-effect dynamics processor VST plugin with EQ, compression and gating functions. Presets offer dedicated setups for pianos, guitars, vocals and drums.
- GTR Solo – 5 slot channel strip plugin offering guitar pedal style effects in chain. Audio effect units include a variety of amp cabinets as well as reverb, delay, chorus, flanger, Wah, vibrato, distortion, gate, compressor and more.
- Flow Motion – a hybrid FM synthesizer plugin with modulation capabilities and over 1,000 presets.
- StudioVerse Instruments – instrument rack plugin with thousands of presets. Built-in sounds include lo-fi style keys, analog synth basses, classic pads, EDM leads and “song starters” (producer loops). Each preset features multi-instrument layers, MIDI effects and audio effects.
- StudioVerse Audio Effects – a library of curated FX plugin chains, designed by top producers, to instantly achieve polished effects for vocals, guitars, drums and other sounds.
Why Music Producers Should Download These Plugins
The Waves Free Plugin Pack is quite a game-changer for anyone involved in music production. Here’s why it stands out:
- Professional Quality: These VST plugins are used by industry producers worldwide for their reliability and sound quality.
- Diverse Effects: From bread-and-butter reverb & delay to virtual amplifier units, EQ & filtering, saturation and distortion effects – the pack covers a wide spectrum of production needs.
- Ease of Use: Intuitive interfaces make these plugins beginner-friendly, yet powerful enough for seasoned professionals.
- DAW Compatibility: The plugins work with major DAWs such as Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, FL Studio and more.
How to Download the Free Waves Plugin Pack
Downloading the free Waves plugins is simple:
- Visit the Waves Free Plugin Pack page.
- Log in to your Waves account or create a new one.
- Download the pack using Waves Central and add these free VST plugins to your music production arsenal.
Compatibility
The Waves Free Plugin Pack is compatible with Windows and Mac, ensuring accessibility for most users. On Windows, it supports 64-bit systems running Windows 10 or newer, while macOS compatibility begins with version 10.15 or newer. These plugins are available in VST3, AU (Audio Units) and AAX formats. Standalone is supported with some of the plugins.
Free Plugin Bundles: More Options
In addition to the Waves Free Plugin Pack, producers can explore other exciting offerings like the 6 free effects plugins from Chaos Audio (guitar orientated) which contain tools like reverb, delay, EQ and drive – perfect for guitarists but sound designers in general. Another standout is the big 20-effect bundle from Native Instruments Plugin Alliance, featuring high quality plugins for mixing, mastering, and creative sound design. There is also the latest Dear Reality release of 11 commercial VST plugins.
