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My most recent album came out in November of 2022.  It was called “Attack of the 80s Synths” and was released to no critical fanfare, but I didn’t send it to any critics and I’m a hobbyist, so there’s that.  On the album, I used a hell of a lot of the Waves Electric Piano 80, aka the Yamaha CP80, because I love that keyboard and, at the time, the Waves version was cheap and mostly good.

So when Waves decided to move to a subscription-only model, I decided I was forever done with Waves.  They backtracked, but I was already unhappy with the company, so I stuck to my guns.  And today I sat down to go back through my album and bounce out the CP80 tracks so that I wouldn’t have any issues in the future.

Hmm.  Well… turns out I was also using the Waves Aural Exciter, too.  And the De-esser.  And Vitamin.  Well… crap.  I could just transfer my Waves plugins to my new M1 Mac Mini, right?  Nope.  All the plugins broke when Apple changed processors.  And I do understand that, except I don’t.  I have Soothe 2.  It didn’t break in the move.  I have a few others that also didn’t break.  My Arturia stuff didn’t break.  Pretty much nothing broke, except my Waves stuff.

Do I take the time to remix using different plugins?

At this point, I’m not going to bounce ANYTHING.  I think that if I ever need those tracks, I’ll just take the MIDI and send it to my MX88 and use the CP80 in that.  It sounds better, anyway.