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You can no longer buy Waves plugins individually, as the company goes 100% subscription. If you want any new Waves releases, a Creative Access membership is now your only option.

Waves is one of the most prolific plugin developers in the industry, releasing new effects and – occasionally – instruments at a staggering rate. Recently, the company’s strategy has been to introduce these plugins at rock-bottom prices, and sitewide sales have also been commonplace. However, as of now, that’s all changed.

Reason being Waves is now fully embracing the subscription model. So you can no longer buy the company’s plugins individually. Obviously, any that you already own will continue to work, but if you want any more Waves releases going forward, a Waves Creative Access membership is your only option.

So what does this contain? If you subscribe for the Ultimate subscription ($25/month), every plugin that Waves makes. And if you continue to subscribe, you will get all the new releases, as well.

There is also a cheaper Essential membership tier ($15/month) that gives you 110 plugins at launch and will get “select new plugins” in the future.

Regardless which subscription you choose, you will also get ongoing support, all updates and two free months of Splice Sounds+. You can cancel at any time, but if you do, you will lose access to your plugins. If you sign up for a year, you will get 12 months for the price of 10.

All subscribers to both membership tiers also get access to 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 also an open platform, so everyone who uses it can add more chains.

“Since we started Waves, our goal has been to give all music and audio creators full, affordable access to the largest, most diverse set of top-quality audio tools,” the company told its customers in an email.

“Today, we take the next step. Whatever you are inspired to create, we want you to have everything you need – instantly at your fingertips, always.”

Waves Creative Access is available now, and you can try it free for seven days, fully-functional. You can also use it in demo mode for all as long as you like. Find out more on the Waves website.

Update: Waves has reversed direction and brought back ‘Perpetural Plugin’ Licenses.

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Korg Liano is now available in 6 different colours – Black, White, Grey, Silver, Blue and Red – so which one looks the best?

Launched last year, Korg’s Liano is the slimline 88-note digital piano with a beginner-friendly, soft-touch key action. It is also portable: you can power it from batteries and it has a pair of built-in bass reflex speakers.

We are telling you this again because Liano is now available in six colour options. In addition to the original black, you now have pearl white and metallic grey, silver, blue or red options to choose from.

So which colour looks the best? Perhaps, if you want to play it totally safe, black is the obvious choice (no one’s going to be scared by that if you decide to sell at a later date) and the grey and silver options look rather conservative, as well. The white Liano is a little bolder, but we’d be worried about marking its pristine finish.

Which leaves metallic blue and red. There are quite a few red keyboards on the market already – but the blue option is genuinely distinctive. As such, this would be our choice, but feel free to disagree because the choice is in your hands.

In terms of performance, of course, it doesn’t really matter. The beating heart of all the Lianos is an Italian grand piano, and there are seven further sounds to play with, too. The Korg Liano is a mere 7cm tall, weighs 6.2kg and offers USB MIDI and audio.

As you can see, the control set has been kept simple. There’s no screen, so sounds are selected via a labelled dial. And includes reverb and chorus effects.

Korg Liano costs £339 /$330, and the new colours will be available soon. Find out more on the Korg website.

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Noise Engineering has introduced Yester Versio, a three-tap delay for Eurorack modular systems that they say is designed to be straightforward and easy to control.

What they say about it:

“Yester Versio comes with controls over panning, delay feedback, and delay time, but we didn’t stop there. The Time control interacts with the Even/Triplet/Dotted switch, allowing for flexible delay syncing. These also work with the Tap button and jack input, making it easy to sync Yester to the rest of your patch and create interesting rhythms.

Use the DJ-style filter to shape your delays. Add flavor with Chorus, a bipolar control that adds a bit of clean pitch shifting or LFO-modulated effects. Turn up Fold for some gentle saturation, then gritty wavefolding, and at the top of the knob, to add in chaotic suboctaves for a bit of doom.

And of course, because it is a Versio, almost everything can be CV controlled.”

Yester Versio is based on Noise Engineering’s Versio stereo DSP platform. It is basically a DSP hardware ‘brain’ that can be flashed with a variety of firmwares, so the platform can be used for a wide variety of functions. If you have any of the modules based on the Versio platform, you can load and test any of the Versio designs. You can also buy ‘hot-swappable’ overlays, to customize your panel to match whatever firmware you load.
Yester Versio is available now for $393. Alternate panel overlays are available from $16.

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