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Waves announces V15 update: SoundGrid Rack for Avid VENUE | S6L – now expanded

— Run Waves plugins within Avid’s VENUE Console —

Knoxville, TN, January 23, 2025 — Waves Audio, the world’s leading developer of professional audio signal processing technologies and plugins, announces a V15 update to its SoundGrid Rack for Avid VENUE | S6L console, delivering expanded power for your Waves plugins. This update offers major performance enhancements, making the mixing workflow with Waves plugins faster and more powerful and it significantly improves loading snapshots. Additionally, the update includes multiple bug fixes and ensures a robust infrastructure for hosting the latest Waves plugins with maximum reliability. With this updated SoundGrid Rack, live engineers can run up to 64 stereo virtual racks, each containing up to eight Waves plugins, directly within Avid’s VENUE | S6L console – with tactile control from the console’s surface knobs. This setup eliminates the need for a computer host or external network switch. Users can complete the system with the WSG-HD Waves SoundGrid Option Card, VENUE software v8 or later, a Waves SoundGrid Server to process the plugins, and Waves plugin licenses of your choice. SoundGrid Rack for Avid VENUE S6L features: Run Waves plugins directly within your Avid VENUE | S6L console Snapshot automation for plugin parameters Tactile control surface mapping for all Waves plugins Server redundancy with automatic failover (2nd SoundGrid server is required for redundancy) 128 audio paths between Avid and SoundGrid at 96 kHz No external computer host or network switch necessary Follows standard operation of all plugins in the VENUE plug-in rack Bypass and navigate between Waves plugins within S6L Official support for Avid I/O sharing

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Photo file 1: S6L.JPG Photo caption 1: Waves Audio announces a V15 update to its SoundGrid Rack for Avid VENUE | S6L console About Waves Audio Ltd.: Waves is the world’s leading developer of audio DSP solutions for music production, recording, mixing, mastering, sound design, post-production, live sound, broadcast, commercial and consumer electronics audio markets. Since its start in the early ‘90s, Waves has developed a comprehensive line of over 250 audio plugins and numerous hardware devices. For its accomplishments, Waves received a Technical GRAMMY® Award in 2011; an Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy® Award for its Waves Clarity Vx Pro plugin in 2023; and a 2024 NAMM Technical Excellence & Creativity Award for its Clarity Vx DeReverb Pro plugin. Additionally, its early flagship plugin, the Q10 equalizer, was selected as an inductee into the TECnology Hall of Fame. Increasingly leveraging pioneering techniques in artificial intelligence, neural networks and machine learning, as well as the company’s three decades of accumulated expertise in psychoacoustics, Waves technologies are being used to improve sound quality in a growing number of market sectors. Around the world, Waves’ award-winning plugins are utilized in the creation of hit records, major motion pictures, and top-selling video games. Additionally, Waves now offers hardware-plus-software solutions (including the revolutionary eMotion LV1 mixer) for professional audio markets. The company’s WavesLive division is a leader in the live sound sector, spearheading the development of solutions for all live platforms. Products from Waves Commercial Audio enable A/V system integrators and installers to deliver superior sound quality for corporate, commercial, government, educational, entertainment, sports and house-of-worship applications. Under its Maxx brand, Waves offers semiconductor and licensable algorithms for consumer electronics applications, used in laptops, smartphones, smart speakers, gaming headsets, TVs and more from industry leaders such as Dell, Google, Fitbit, Acer, Asus, Hisense and others. North America Offices: Waves, Inc., 2800 Merchants Drive, Knoxville, TN 37912; Tel: 865-909-9200, Fax: 865-909-9245, Email: info@waves.com,  Web: http://www.waves.com  Corporate Headquarters Israel: Waves Ltd., Azrieli Center, The Triangle Tower, 32nd Floor, Tel Aviv 67023, Israel; Tel: 972-3-608-4000, Fax: 972-3-608-4056, Email: info@waves.com, Web: http://www.waves.com  Waves Public Relations: Clyne Media, Inc., 169-B Belle Forest Circle, Nashville, TN 37221; Tel: 615-662-1616, Email: robert@clynemedia.com, Web: http://www.clynemedia.com

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