Bring superior sound quality to your podcasts, videos and live streams. Use the industry’s best pro-level tools to solve common audio problems (background noise, lifeless voiceovers, uneven levels) quickly and easily, and meet the loudness standards of all major content platforms.
Poor audio quality is a major reason viewers and listeners abandon videos, podcasts and live streams. Don’t treat audio as an afterthought – improve the audio quality of your content with the most popular tools in the industry.
The Waves Content Creator Audio Toolkit includes 4 intuitive plugins that tackle the most common challenges facing content creators today:
- NS1 Automatic Noise Suppressor for removing distracting background noise
- Greg Wells VoiceCentric an intuitive, hugely effective tool that combines EQ, compression and de-essing into one smart control, to dramatically improve the quality of voice recordings
- Playlist Rider for automatically smoothing out the levels of multiple audio sources (host, guest, music, etc.) in the same podcast, live stream or video
- WLM Plus Loudness Meter to deliver the right loudness levels for YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and other major platforms
In literally seconds, you can achieve superior audio quality that will drive more engagement for your content – courtesy of Waves’ industry-standard plugins, used in major recording and post-production studios all over the globe.
Waves Content Creator Audio Toolkit Features
- Bring superior audio quality to your podcasts, videos, and live streams
- 4 easy-to-use pro-level tools for instant results
- Compatible with major audio and video editing software
- Remove background noise easily & efficiently
- Boost & brighten dull voice recordings
- Smooth out the levels of multiple sources (host, guests, music) automatically
- Meet the loudness standards of major content platforms
- Includes presets for voice & music-under-voice
- Includes loudness presets for Spotify, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Apple Music
- Greg Wells VoiceCentric1
- NS1 Noise Suppressor1
- Playlist Rider1
- WLM Plus Loudness Meter1
- System Requirements
- Mac
- CPU: Intel Core i7 / i9 / Xeon-W / Apple Silicon
- Memory
- Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
- 16 GB free disk space on the system drive
- Operating System: 10.15.7, 11.6.5, 12.4. 13.0
- Screen Resolution
- Minimum: 1024x768
- Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
- USB displays are not supported as the primary display.
- V14 plugins require a graphics card that supports ‘Metal’
- Windows
- CPU
- Intel Core i5, i7, i9, Xeon (all Gen 5 and above)
- AMD Quad Core
- AVX Support required
- Memory
- Minimum: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
- 16 GB free disk space on the system drive
- Operating System
- Windows 10 64 bit (21H2)
- Windows 11 (21H2)
- Screen Resolution
- Minimum: 1024x768
- Recommended: 1280x1024 / 1600x1024
- CPU
- Mac
- Supported Hosts
- The DAW versions listed below are the latest on which we tested and officially qualified each the latest version of our products.
- Waves’ latest version works on newer sub-versions of these DAWs, unless stated otherwise.
- If your DAW (or DAW version) is not listed here, we recommend you demo the product you wish to purchase to confirm it works.
- Your DAW must be running on an operating system that supports it in order for plugins to work properly. To confirm that your DAW version is supported on your operating system, please refer to your DAW’s website.
- Mac
- Pro Tools 2022.4 (AAX Native, Audiosuite)
- Logic Pro X, 10.7.4 (Audio Units)
- Digital Performer 11 (Audio Units)
- Ableton Live 11 (VST3)
- Nuendo 12 (VST3)
- Cubase 12 (VST3)
- Main Stage 3 (Audio Units)
- Garage Band 10.4.6 (Audio Units)
- Audition 22 (VST3)
- Premiere Pro 22 (VST3)
- Studio One Professional 5 (VST3)
- FL Studio 20 (VST3)
- REAPER 6 (VST3)
- Reason 12 (VST)
- Maschine 2 (VST)
- Komplete Kontrol 2 (VST)
- Bitwig Studio 4 (VST3)
- Luna 1.1.11 (Audio Units)
- Windows
- Pro Tools 2022.4 (AAX Native, Audiosuite)
- Ableton Live 11 (VST3)
- Nuendo 12 (VST3)
- Cubase 12 (VST3)
- Cakewalk by BandLab 2021 (VST3)
- Audition 22 (VST3)
- Premiere Pro 22 (VST3)
- Samplitude Pro X6 (VST3)
- Sequoia 15 (VST3)
- Pyramix 14 (VST3)
- Studio One Professional 5 (VST3)
- FL Studio 20 (VST3)
- REAPER 6 (VST3)
- Reason 12 (VST)
- Maschine 2 (VST)
- Komplete Kontrol 2 (VST)
- Bitwig Studio 4 (VST3)
- Supported Platforms
- Greg Wells VoiceCentric: Most Audio Hosts (See Supported Hosts), MultiRack, SuperRack, StudioRack, eMotion LV1 Mixer, eMotion ST Mixer, DiGiCo (DiGiCo SD (v929 or earlier) with MultiRack (v9.8 or earlier) embedded.), Avid VENUE 7.1 or later (When used with SoundGrid Rack for VENUE)
- NS1 Noise Suppressor: Most Audio Hosts (See Supported Hosts), MultiRack, SuperRack, StudioRack, eMotion LV1 Mixer, eMotion ST Mixer, DiGiCo (DiGiCo SD (v929 or earlier) with MultiRack (v9.8 or earlier) embedded.), Avid VENUE 7.1 or later (When used with SoundGrid Rack for VENUE)
- Playlist Rider: Most Audio Hosts (See Supported Hosts), SuperRack, StudioRack, eMotion LV1 Mixer, eMotion ST Mixer, Avid VENUE 7.1 or later (When used with SoundGrid Rack for VENUE)
- WLM Plus Loudness Meter: Most Audio Hosts (See Supported Hosts), MultiRack, SuperRack, StudioRack, eMotion LV1 Mixer, eMotion ST Mixer, DiGiCo (DiGiCo SD (v929 or earlier) with MultiRack (v9.8 or earlier) embedded.), Avid VENUE 7.1 or later (When used with SoundGrid Rack for VENUE)
- Sample Rate
- Greg Wells VoiceCentric: 96 kHz
- NS1 Noise Suppressor: 192 kHz
- Playlist Rider: 96 kHz
- WLM Plus Loudness Meter: 96 kHz
- Channel Components
- Greg Wells VoiceCentric: Mono, Stereo, Mono-to-Stereo
- NS1 Noise Suppressor: Mono, Stereo
- Playlist Rider : Mono, Stereo
- WLM Plus Loudness Meter: Mono, Stereo, Surround/Comments=5.0»5.0, 5.1»5.1
- Latency
- Greg Wells VoiceCentric
- NATIVE/SOUNDGRID
- 44.1 kHz - 48 kHz=65
- 88.2 kHz - 96 kHz=0
- 176.4 kHz - 192 kHz=NA
- VENUE TDM : 48kHz=NA
- NATIVE/SOUNDGRID
- NS1 Noise Suppressor
- NATIVE/SOUNDGRID
- 44.1 kHz - 48 kHz=0
- 88.2 kHz - 96 kHz=0
- 176.4 kHz - 192 kHz=0
- VENUE TDM : 48kHz=NA
- NATIVE/SOUNDGRID
- Playlist Rider
- NATIVE/SOUNDGRID
- 44.1 kHz - 48 kHz=0
- 88.2 kHz - 96 kHz=0
- 176.4 kHz - 192 kHz=NA
- VENUE TDM : 48kHz=NA
- NATIVE/SOUNDGRID
- WLM Plus Loudness Meter
- NATIVE/SOUNDGRID
- 44.1 kHz - 48 kHz=WLM: 0, WLM Plus: 80
- 88.2 kHz - 96 kHz=WLM: 0, WLM Plus: 144
- 176.4 kHz - 192 kHz=NA
- VENUE TDM : 48kHz=NA
- NATIVE/SOUNDGRID
- Greg Wells VoiceCentric
