Box-based editing. A box is a span of time AND a band of pitch.
Edits land only inside it. Stack boxes to catch a hum and its harmonics at once.
It tells you what is wrong. Eleven checks run over your
recording and report in plain English — a 60 Hz hum, clicks, a boomy room — with the
measurement behind each one and a button that fixes it.
Twenty-six one-click repairs. Hiss, hum, clicks, plosives,
sibilance, echo, clipping. Every one previews first, and undoes even after you keep it.
Clean a video's audio. Open an MP4, MOV, MKV or WebM, fix the
sound, and export the video rebuilt — the picture copied through untouched.
Live master effects. A 100-band equaliser, plus bass, pitch,
speed, echo and stereo focus — moving while you listen, with presets.
An assistant can drive it. Waves is also an MCP server with 17
tools, so Claude can open a recording, look at the spectrogram, box a noise and repair
it — through the same code and the same undo history your mouse uses.
Plain English throughout. Every control is named for what it
does to your sound, not for its parameter. A test refuses to ship a knob without a
sentence explaining it.
Your audio stays on your computer. No account, no ads, no
uploads. Waves makes exactly two kinds of network call: activating your licence once,
and fetching a file you asked it to open by link.
Waves is free to use — open, edit, listen, preview and undo, with
no trial clock and nothing watermarked. A subscription covers keeping what you
make: exporting audio and video, lifting a selection out as its own file, and saving a
Music Studio mix.
How your licence works: your purchase is registered to the email address you
check out with. In Waves, choose
Help ▸ Unlock Waves…, type that address and
press Activate. Waves checks once, saves a signed licence on your computer, and never
needs the internet again. Buying inside the Mac App Store instead? Apple handles it,
and Restore brings it back on any Mac. Stuck?
Support.