They re-introduced Waves Update Plan three days later, as well as perpetual licenses. On March 26, 2023, in a controversial move, Waves introduced their subscription service, Waves Creative Access, while removing Waves Update Plan as well as the sale of perpetual licenses. The chain is modeled after the EMI TG12345 consoles used in the Abbey Road Studios mastering suites. In 2018, Waves released the Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain as part of their Abbey Road collection. In 2015, Waves worked with music producer Butch Vig to release the Butch Vig Vocals plug-in as part of the Waves Signature Series.

The Waves Signature Series continued in 2013 with the Manny Marroquin Signature Series. In 2011, the company was honored with a Technical Grammy Award for 'contributions of outstanding technical significance to the recording field.' The Chris Lord-Alge Signature Series followed in 2010. In 2009, as part of the Signature Series, Waves released the Eddie Kramer Signature Series of five plug-ins focusing on classic rock. Waves launched the Waves Signature Series working with music producers and engineers to explore their unique sounds.

Record producer Tony Maserati said of early Waves software, ' were the only plugins quality and they were creative.' Waves later launched a signature line of Maserati inspired plugins. Waves' L1 Ultramaximizer, released in 1994, became a prominent plugin, with some publications pointing to it as contributing to the ' loudness war' behind modern music mastering. The Q10 was the audio industry's first commercially available audio plugin. Later that year, Waves released its first product, the Q10 Paragraphic Equalizer. Waves Audio was founded in 1992 by Gilad Keren and Meir Sha'ashua in Tel Aviv, Israel. In 2011, Waves won a Technical Grammy Award. The company's corporate headquarters and main development facilities are located in Tel Aviv, with additional offices in the United States, China, and Taiwan, and development centers in India and Ukraine. is a developer and supplier of professional digital audio signal processing technologies and audio effects, used in recording, mixing, mastering, post production, broadcast, and live sound.

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