Sound Design Suite Black Friday Deal 2026: $174.99, 76% off

The Sound Design Suite Black Friday deal from Waves takes 76% off this 40-plugin collection, which puts it at $174.99 until Nov 26, 2026.

The Sound Design Suite is a plugin bundle for people who build sound from scratch: effects, textures and full soundscapes. Waves says it was developed with film sound designer Scott Gershin (Star Trek, Hellboy 2, American Beauty) and game audio expert Charles Deenen (Need for Speed, Fast & Furious 1 and 2).

The maker's pitch is that these plugins mold, modulate and mangle sound.

What does the Sound Design Suite do?

Alongside the basics, compression and EQ, the bundle covers more specialised jobs. Waves lists the ability to warp time, adjust pitch, shape transients, widen stereo imaging and create doppler effects.

You can also add emphasis and apply distortion, so one suite covers both the cleanup and the destruction stages of a signal chain.

What are the main features?

The suite covers a lot of ground, so here is a rundown of what Waves puts in it:

• UltraPitch handles pitch shifting, while SoundShifter takes care of transposition
• Doublers and delays fatten up a sound
• Enigma, Doppler and MondoMod warp space and time
• A range of compressors spans classic to contemporary designs
• Morphoder lets one sound take on the character of another
• The maximizers push level hard, adding power and punch
• LoAir, a subharmonic generator, produces deep bass that shakes the floor
• EQ options include vintage, analog and precision linear-phase types
• Electric Grand 80 is a piano for composing melodic parts
• Guitar amp processors bring grit, distortion and crunch
• Trans-X shapes transients to bring out impact
• Stereo imaging can be skewed, and mono sources can be widened to stereo

Which plugins are included?

The 40 plugins are: C4 Multiband Compressor, DeEsser, Doppler, Doubler, Eddie Kramer Drum Channel, Electric Grand 80 Piano, Enigma, GTR3 Amps, GTR3 Stomps, GTR3 ToolRack, GTR3 Tuner, H-Comp Hybrid Compressor, H-Delay Hybrid Delay, L1 Ultramaximizer, L2 Ultramaximizer, L3 Ultramaximizer, L3-LL Ultramaximizer, Linear Phase EQ, Linear Phase Multiband Compressor, LoAir, MetaFlanger, MondoMod, Morphoder, PAZ Analyzer, PS22 Stereo Maker, Q10 Equalizer, Renaissance Axx, Renaissance Bass, Renaissance Compressor, Renaissance Equalizer, S1 Stereo Imager, Sibilance, SoundShifter, SuperTap, Trans-X, UltraPitch, V-Comp, V-EQ3, V-EQ4 and VU Meter.

Formats and system requirements

On Mac, the suite supports macOS Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14 and Sequoia 15, in VST, AU and AAX formats.

On PC, it needs Windows 10 or newer and comes in VST and AAX.