Waves Dave Audé Producer Pack Plug-in Bundle (2024)

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Turbocharge Your Productions

Want to turbocharge your productions? If so, this bundle will help. These eight plug-ins were hand-picked by Grammy-winning music producer Dave Audé (Rihanna, Selena Gomez, Lady Gaga, Sting), and supply you with everything you need to make your music pop. This bundle’s virtual instruments run the gamut from funky slap bass to rich wavetable synths to vintage electric pianos. And whether you want to pump, punch, or polish, its processors deliver the goods. If you’re aiming for a modern radio-friendly sound, the Waves Dave Audé Producer Pack is a must-have.

Bass Slapper

Looking for that inimitable slap bass tone for a funk or disco track? Bass Slapper lets you control slap bass from a MIDI controller. This cross-platform virtual instrument was designed with keyboardists in mind; it senses your natural playing style and translates it to the appropriate place on a bass fretboard using the appropriate technique. Play notes short for a percussive slap. Play smoother for groovier passages. An onboard effects suite with the all usual suspects — distortion, wah, compression, and more — make Bass Slapper a one-stop shop for authentic slap bass tone.

Features:

• Play authentic slap bass from a MIDI controller
• Great for funk, rock, disco, and soul
• Designed with keyboardists in mind
• Responds to your natural playing style
• Onboard effects suite makes Bass Slapper a one-stop shop

Codex Wavetable Synth

Codex is a polyphonic wavetable soft synth that will shift your sound design into overdrive. Based on an advanced granular wavetable engine and Waves' Virtual Voltage technology, Codex lets you easily create sounds that range from organic acoustic and analog emulations to wonderfully rich, evolving textures. Codex comes with hundreds of killer presets, but you can also import your own audio files, transform them into wavetables, and tweak them to taste. Advanced formant control gives you direct control over the acoustic resonance of your sounds, while providing consistent resonance character that's true to the original signal.

Features:

• Cutting-edge polyphonic wavetable synthesizer
• Powered by Waves' Virtual Voltage Technology
• Innovative oscillators with progressive wavetable scanning capabilities
• Advanced and comprehensive Modulation Matrix
• Formant control — direct control over the acoustic resonance of the sound
• Wavetable (sample) importing
• User-replaceable wavetables
• VCA, VCF, 2 LFOs, ADSR envelope, and Mod Matrix
• Arpeggiator/16-step sequencer
• Integrated chorus, delay, reverb, distortion, and bit-crusher effects
• Visual dynamic waveforms
• Plug-in and standalone instrument

Electric 200 and Electric 88 Pianos

Add the sound of a vintage electric piano to your sonic palette, with the Electric 200 and Electric 88 Pianos. Waves sampled these well-loved and road-worn electric pianos in great detail, creating an expressive piano instrument that has the subtle nonlinearity of a years-old, but well-maintained, electric piano. You're able to fine-tune your tone by using the Mix section to balance the sound of the internal mechanisms, tines, and key-up sounds. When it's time to add the soulful sound of a vintage EP to your music, Sweetwater is sure you'll dig these stellar virtual instruments.

Features:

• Electric piano software instrument
• Based on meticulously sampled vintage electric pianos
• Fine-tune your sound with the Mix section, compressor, and amplifier modeling
• Built-in effects include tremolo, autopan, phaser, chorus, and reverb
• Use as a plug-in or as a standalone instrument

Electric Grand 80 Piano

From Elton John and Peter Gabriel to Herbie Hanco*ck and Vangelis, the Yamaha CP-80 was the definitive 1980s electric grand piano sound. For their Electric 80 Piano virtual instrument, Waves expertly sampled a fastidiously maintained CP-80, and the results deliver the classic shiny leads and reverberant chords that graced some of our favorite '80s rock, jazz, pop, and R&B. The original electro-acoustic instrument featured fewer strings per key than a traditional acoustic piano, resulting in a streamlined sound that's easier to mix into your music. Electric 80 captures all the magic, including its tone controls, tremolo, and Sustain Resonance, which lets you control the simulated sympathetic resonance of un-played strings — ideal for adding depth and dimension to both solos and chords.

Features:

• Meticulously sampled from the classic Yamaha CP-80 electric grand piano
• Includes tone controls from the original instrument
• Mix section lets you add sounds sampled from the original: key up, mechanics, sustain pedal
• Onboard studio-grade compressor/limiter
• Included effects: tremolo, autopan, phaser, chorus, and reverb
• May be played as a plug-in or as a standalone instrument

OneKnob Pumper

For Sweetwater engineers, ducking serves a range of uses from the French House effect to mixing radio commercials. Now Waves gives you an easy, affordable way to do it. Designed for instant ducking, OneKnob Pumper plug-in simulates sidechain compression. If you want to, for instance, make a mix pump with the beat, it'll save you from having to patch your kick drum track to the sidechain input of a compressor. This very handy, easy-to-use plugin is also perfect for making individual tracks pump with the beat, or duck under, say, a vocal or announcer. OneKnob Pumper is so useful, convenient, and cost effective, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it.

Features:

• Amazingly easy-to-use OneKnob plugin
• Instant ducking effect (auto-sidechaining)
• Ideal for making space for a four-on-the-floor bass drum pattern
• Great for ducking your track under a vocal or announcer

Sibilance

Out-of-control “s” and “sh” sounds can destroy an otherwise stellar vocal track. Sibilance obliterates those unwanted artifacts, but unlike traditional de-essers, it employs a revolutionary Organic ReSynthesis engine for unprecedented transparency. And we do mean transparent — you can crank the high end on the remaining vocal without fear of harshness or excessive brightness. And it’s a breeze to use — just throw it on a track, set the Threshold and Range controls, and you’re done. Great for vocal tracks and voice-overs alike, Sibilance delivers fast, reliable, and effortless de-essing with top-shelf quality.

Features:

• Smooth, glitch-free removal of out-of-control “s” and “sh” sounds
• Revolutionary Organic ReSynthesis engine yields unprecedented transparency
• Separates the sibilant parts from your vocal without changing its original tone
• Easy-to-use Threshold and Range controls
• Graph supplies visual indication of the amount of sibilance reduction
• Fast, reliable, and effortless de-essing for vocal tracks and voice-overs alike
• SoundGrid compatibility

Smack Attack

Ever wonder how professional engineers achieve drum mixes with that coveted smack and bite? Everyone has their modus operandi, but many rely on transient-shaping as their number one secret weapon. And that's just what Waves Smack Attack does. Optimized for drums, Smack Attack fine-tunes each instrument's level, shape, and duration. Use this plug-in on individual tracks, or slap it on your drum bus to maximize the entire kit. Either way, it results in kicks that punch and snares that crack. Armed with a Sensitivity control for selective transient shaping, a Wet/Dry mix control for parallel processing, and more, the level of control afforded by Smack Attack is astounding.

Features:

• Drum-optimized transient-shaping plug-in
• Produce kicks that punch and snares that crack
• Manipulate the attack and sustain of your drums' transients
• Fine-tune transient level, shape, and duration
• Sensitivity control for selective transient shaping
• Wet/Dry mix control for parallel processing
• Guard control with Limit, Clip, and Off settings for pushing your sound to the brink
• Use on individual tracks or on your drum bus to maximize an entire kit
• Real-time graphic wave display provides visual guidance
• Also works on loops, synth hits, percussion, and more
• SoundGrid compatibility