Waves Renaissance Maxx

Renaissance Maxx

The go-to plugins for modern production : From R-Vox to R-Bass and beyond

The Enduring Choice of Professionals

From Beyonce to Billie Eilish, from Drake to Taylor Swift to Kendrick Lamar, the Renaissance plugins have arguably been used on more recordings than any other plugins in recent music history. The reason : a one-of-a-kind combination of great inimitable sound and super-simple workflow.

Combining the warmth of analog with the precision of digital, these acclaimed plugins create the sounds you’ve heard on countless award-winning records. From smooth vocal compression to bass enhancement, reverb, EQ, dynamics, vocal de-essing and more, this collection has defined the sound of modern music.

The Sound of Modern Music Production

Mix Your Vocals with the #1 Vocal Compressor in Modern Production

Hailed by Drake’s producer Noah “40” Shebib as “one of the most important plugins ever made,” and famously used on every vocal recording by Beyonce, R-Vox intelligently adjusts dynamics with only three easy-to-use controls—and with an inimitable smooth compression sound.

Make Your Bass Heard on Any Speaker

The low end is crucial in today’s music—be it your 808s, kick, bass samples, synth bass or bass guitar. Renaissance Bass’s patented psychoacoustic enhancement technology delivers rich, deep bass over any playback system—even laptop speakers.

Choose Your Reverb Flavor

Renaissance Maxx includes the lush-soudning algorithmic Renaissance Reverb, with 12 distinctive algorithms for exceptional versatility.

EQ, De-Ess and Compress with the Inimitable Renaissance Sound

4 additional Renaissance plugins cover your EQ and dynamics needs: Create your own chains with R-Comp and R-EQ, or go for the convenience of the R-Channel’s integration of multiple effects with sidechaining. The additional R-Axx delivers instant, mix-ready compression tailored specifically for guitar and synths.

IR-L Convolution Reverb

For hyper-realistic acoustic spaces, nothing beats convolution reverb—it’s like the difference between a photograph of a concert hall, and a painting of a concert hall. However, unlike traditional reverbs, convolution reverbs can have a daunting collection of parameters and options.

IR-L cuts through the complexity. Featuring the acclaimed sound quality of Waves’ IR1 audio engine, you can bring over 2,000+ acoustic spaces into your studio—from stairwells to cathedrals.

Renaissance Axx

For guitar, bass, and other stringed instruments, all-purpose compressors that also have to handle vocals, drums, stereo mixes, and so on—are unnecessarily complex. You would probably just set-and-forget most parameters, and tweak the two or three you actually need.

So, welcome to Renaissance Axx—which optimizes “under the hood” parameters for stringed instruments and similar sounds like plucked synths. The result: Ease of use, with the gorgeous sound of high-end studio compression.

Renaissance Bass

When people listen to music over computer speakers and earbuds, the bass gets lost—and with it, we lose the power that bass brings to any music. Renaissance Bass enables you to deliver rich bass even over the smallest playback systems—with a super-easy interface.

Based on psychoacoustic studies into how ears perceive bass, Renaissance Bass creates harmonics that convince the ear it’s hearing deeper bass than what actually exists—and hearing is believing.

Renaissance Channel

The Renaissance plugin collection has always been acclaimed for hitting the sweet spot of superior functionality with an effortless interface. Now, the Renaissance Channel brings together compression, expansion, gating, sidechaining, and four bands of EQ into one convenient plugin.

Save a Renaissance Channel preset, and all your optimized processor settings are only a click away. Renaissance Channel combines flexible processing, superb workflow, and superior sound quality.

Renaissance Compressor

The Renaissance Compressor revives the warmth that made vintage analog compressors great—with the transparency and additional features made possible only with modern software designs.

As the gold standard for modern compressors, R-Comp brings clarity and definition, with the added versatility of classic opto or modern “electro” attack/release times.

Renaissance DeEsser

De-essing is an essential process when recording vocals, voiceover, audiobooks, and podcasts. Excessive high frequencies caused by “ess” and “shh” sounds can cause distortion, splattering, and make equalization more difficult. Renaissance DeEsser solves these problems—and more.

Renaissance DeEsser delivers transparent, artifact-free de-essing that focuses on reducing ess sounds with laser-like precision.

Renaissance Equalizer

For over two decades, engineers have reached for the Renaissance EQ because it solves problems. The neutral, unbiased sound means that any changes made to your tracks happen because you set the controls to make those changes—not because the EQ imposed its own sound on your settings.

What’s more, the clean, multipoint touch-friendly interface (with 3 different skins) is a joy—see all band parameters at once, or focus on a single band. No wonder this EQ has stood the test of time.

Renaissance Reverb

Algorithmic reverb was the original digital reverb technology, and used recursive processing—which fed back reflections to create ever-more complex and rich reverb reflections. Algorithmic reverbs not only create beautiful, enveloping reverb effects, but are highly customizable.

Renaissance Reverb updates the technology behind vintage reverb sounds for a smoother, more luscious tone, and expands your sonic scenarios by integrating 12 different reverb types.

Renaissance Vox

Hailed by Drake’s producer Noah “40” Shebib as “one of the most important vocal plugins ever made,” R-Vox has become the go-to vocal compressor for countless Grammy®-winning engineers, working with vocalists from Beyonce to Billie Eilish. With 3 focused and efficient controls, R-Vox is the quickest route to a legendary vocal sound.

Most of the action happens “under the hood,” with parameter values calculated in real time for specific vocal styles. Tweak the Gate, Compression, and Output Gain—then become inspired.

Waves Tune LT

When time is your priority, Waves Tune LT is the quick solution for pitch-correcting vocals—and even guitar, sax, and other single-note melody lines in the vocal range. Simply tell Tune LT how fast to correct the pitch, the length of note transitions, and the correction strength. Done.

Concentrate on expressiveness when singing—Waves Tune LT can fix a bad note in an otherwise great performance. Or, set the controls to extreme, for the hard correction “T-Pain” sound.