Find out What’s New 
V17 is the latest version of Waves plugins, introducing a redesigned preset experience, workflow enhancements for studio and live sound, and StudioVerse Mix Unlock – a new way to control finished mixes without stems.
What’s new in v17
New Preset Workflow Instantly browse & find presets and save favorites - quickly & intuitively.
Plugin Updates
For Live
Real-time analyzers added to Renaissance EQ and eMo Q4, plus enhanced PSE feedback control.
For the Studio
Refreshed interface for MondoMod, new I/O control for CLA MixDown, AudioSuite support for WLM Plus, and more.
NEW Feature! StudioVerse: Mix Unlock
Transform Finished Tracks – Without Having the Stems
See What’s New in V17
The V17 update includes plugins and bundles only. V17 plugins are fully supported on V16 applications such as eMotion LV1 and SuperRack.
How Do I Get V17?
You can update your existing licenses to V17 as long as they are covered by the Waves Update Plan, which also gives you extra benefits: 2nd licenses for your covered plugins, license version updates, and a Waves coupon for an upcoming software purchase.
See Update Instructions »
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Ooh, that new 5Hz shift trick in PSE looks like fun, and if Mix Unlock can pick apart individual drums in a stereo mix (too many electronic drum kits out there) it could be incredibly useful! Even just for patching up a console mix to make it usable, I’m going to have to play with that one.
And finally some pinch control for F6! 
Hopefully there are some good performance improvements too, those are my favourite right now (at least until I give in and get a second processing server for live work…). Will have to see how the preset browser goes, but honestly it’s been getting worse with every update recently - both in DAW and on LV1. Fewer clicks would be great, especially to get to copy/paste.
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Agreed on the preset browser. I haven’t tried this new version yet although based on the screenshot, it looks like copy and paste are quicker to access. I think copy and paste buttons should be on the toolbar itself. If I’m copying settings, I’m obviously not interested in loading a preset… same with pasting. Opening a separate popup for this is slow and gets in the way.. especially on LV1.
Congratulations on the new release! Fun story:
I got my update plan a few days ago in anticipation of a new version release… And late last night I was asking an AI/LLM to speculate & predict when the new Waves version would be released.
(I had checked earlier in the evening and there were no updates.)
The LLM was like, “It’s available NOW!” and gave me a list of feature updates. I thought it was hallucinating, or divulging embargoed information – so I took a screenshot, not believing it.
But it was real!
The update went live between the time I checked the website and when I was talking to the AI about it.
Here’s a link to the full release notes:
I really appreciate that Waves goes deep on bugfixes rather than just focusing on new features. (I abandoned a few other developers who ignored bug reports to continually release new products without supporting their existing lineup.)
The new features are great, I’m still exploring them…
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The Live Stem Splitter is going to make quite a few out there happy. The quality wouldn’t be as good as offline versions, but it’s live!!
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