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Electric 88 Black Friday pricing is 62% off, which puts this Waves electric piano VST at $29.99 until Nov 26, 2026.
It is a virtual instrument built around a classic 70s electric piano, the sound you know from records by Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, the Doors and Steely Dan.
The maker says the aim was to capture the soul of the instrument, not only its sound.
Waves says it searched out the best-sounding specimen of this vintage model and sampled it key by key. Each key was recorded across the dynamic range, so velocity changes how the note speaks.
The maker credits that approach with a full human feel and touch.
Keyboardist Jason Miles, who has worked with Michael Jackson and Miles Davis, called it "top of the class for E-Piano VSTs." That is his quote, not ours.
The plugin gives you controls over the parts of the instrument that give an electric piano its character:
The velocity curve matters if your controller feels too heavy or too light. Reshaping the curve means soft playing and hard playing land where your hands expect them.
The effects are classic keyboard-rig staples, so a tremolo or a phaser can sit right on the instrument without an extra insert in the signal chain.
On Mac, Electric 88 runs on macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14 and Sequoia 15, in VST, AU and AAX formats.
On PC, it needs Windows 10 or later, in VST and AAX formats.
It also runs as a standalone app, which Waves points to for live performance. You can load it without a DAW and play it straight from a keyboard.
The plugin is NKS-ready, so it works with NI Komplete Kontrol and Maschine.
That covers the full Electric 88 Piano plugin: key-by-key multisampling, the tone and amp section, the built-in effects, and the standalone mode for the stage.
Yes. The Electric 88 Black Friday deal is 62% off, bringing the Waves electric piano plugin to $29.99 until Nov 26, 2026.
On Mac it comes as VST, AU and AAX, and on PC as VST and AAX. It also runs as a standalone app, and it is NKS-ready for NI Komplete Kontrol and Maschine.
It includes tremolo, autopan, phaser, chorus and reverb. There are also amp, drive and mic controls for the onstage sound, plus limiting and compression to squeeze the signal.
Waves says it found the best-sounding specimen of the vintage model and sampled it key by key. The maker says this captures each key's nuances with full dynamic feel and faithful velocity response.
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