u/Ill-Elevator2828

Waves have been fairly hated for a while now - with good reason in many ways, but I had forgotten about them until recently a couple of YouTube videos popped up about them. Apparently it’s still the case that you can’t just transfer licenses to another machine, you have to buy them again, they charge for updates (not upgrades, but updates) and generally just horrible practices.

So my question is - how are they still doing this stuff? They must be finding that it still works otherwise they wouldn’t do it. Thing is, these days, there are SO many plugin developers that are making high quality stuff and many are even free. They’re often regarded as better. So it’s not like nobody has a choice.

Sure, some pros need to keep up their licenses because they may import sessions that use Waves plugins, I get that, but surely they’re in the minority. Who are all these people showing Waves that their business model still works?

So I have a YouTube channel where I do music production tutorials and the occasional music software review, all very matter of fact and it’s actually going well at 3k subs.

The problem is, I want to focus on something other than the straight up factual stuff and want to showcase some of my own music and such, but I feel like when I do that, it confuses the existing audience. Is there any risk in starting a new channel to get that side of things out of my system when I want and doesn’t “muddy” my main channel? I don’t even care if people don’t connect it to me, all of this is just for fun for me anyway.

I feel like my audience has latched onto my channel based on one kind of content but I don’t just want to stick to that one style.

So I want to add another keyboard synth to my setup. I already have a Take 5 and a Behringer Model D. I’ve looked at so many options but to get full analog poly, you have to pay the price - apart from when it comes to the Deepmind 12 which is currently £539.

I mean, that’s insane for an analog poly synth with all those features. I can’t see any other product that even starts to compete for the price - at least on paper.

Am I missing any alternatives? I could, of course, just not bother and carry on but this is r/synthesizers not r/sensiblechoices