Make Your Vocals and Instruments Jump Out of the Speakers
There’s nothing quite like the magic of huge-sounding analog tube saturation—and this one must be heard to be believed. An original-design plugin from our Magma series, the unique blend of the BEAUTY and BEAST knobs offers a versatile sonic pallet from delicate to beyond aggressive, to help you create expensive-sounding productions.
You’ll find BB Tubes is incredibly addictive. Once you start using it on your drums, vocals, guitars, bass, synths, mix bus and absolutely everything, it’s hard to go back. Incredible tones are simple to dial in without overthinking, and parts will simply feel “finished” in the mix far quicker than before.
The Waves Magma Sound: Analog Like Never Before
The Magma sound was born in Waves’ treasure trove of analog circuitry, and the magic comes from the extraordinary blend of tubes & transformers. BEAUTY cascades into BEAST—so tune and tweak them for an enormous range of saturation sounds.
BEAUTY for Delicate Harmonics
This even-harmonics BEAUTY knob is perfect for delicate saturation, where you just want to make a sound blossom before it breaks up. You’ll hear an instant roundness, fatness and glow with this knob, and an unmistakably huge low-mid.
BEAST for Aggressive Energy
This odd-harmonics BEAST knob gives you that immediate in-your-face energy, attitude and aggression, all the way to crunch distortion. Even when broken up the sound feels controlled and not muddy. There’s also an A/B switch to select between two different tube types.
Sensitivity: True Analog Reaction
Even with BEAUTY and BEAST untouched, running audio through the plugin achieves natural tube compression and harmonic distortion. Use the Sensitivity to control how hard you’re hitting the tubes – the adjustments are gain compensated.
Soft Clipping = Instant Loudness
Use this plugin to get incredibly loud mixes, fast. The soft clipping of the tubes brings down transient peak levels, while dramatically increasing perceived loudness.
requirements:
mac:
cpu: Intel or Silicon Architecture
ram: 8
disk: 16
version: macOS Catalina 10.15, Big Sur 11, Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14
additional_requirements: Minimum: 1024×768
Recommended: 1280×1024 / 1600×1024
USB displays are not supported as the primary display.
internet required: no
windows:
cpu: X64 compatible Intel or AMD CPU
ram: 8
disk: 16
version: Windows 10 64 bit and Windows 11
additional_requirements: Minimum: 1024×768
Recommended: 1280×1024 / 1600×1024
internet required: no
trial: no
notes: Bring Your Music to Life with Tube Saturation
feature: Huge-sounding analog tube saturation, subtle to aggressive
BEAUTY knob perfect for delicate harmonic saturation
Blend BEAUTY and BEAST for an exception range of tones
Tube soft-clipping creates extremely loud mixes, quickly
Bass Relief keeps just the low end clean from the tube saturation
Original Waves Maqma design and modeling of cascading tube stages
BEAST knob for aggressive in-your-face distortion
Transformer adds a pleasing colored low-end bump
Tone section—pre- and post-saturation hi-shelf EQ
Sensitivity lets you control how the signal hits the tubes
licensing methods:
computer
usb
platforms: mac
windows
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