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.