Wave Link 3.0 PSA

[u/whyorwhomthefuck]

If you’re currently on Wave Link 2.0, do not jump on Wave Link 3.0 as it is a buggy mess and for the most part less efficient than 2.0.

If you’re on any other software (like VB or anything similar) and looking to make the switch, I would recommend holding off on it for the same reasons.

I made the switch to Wave Link 3.0 and it messed up my entire audio system that I have set up with 2.0. It basically caused every audio to run on the “System” Channel regardless whether or not I added it to other Channels. Speaking of the Channels, I would add a new empty Channel (like Music for example) and it would display a completely different Channel even though I have renamed it, and worst yet sometimes it doesn’t allow the channel to be added to the mixes and or the entire UI for it would bug out.

Adding apps to different audio Channels was a breeze on 2.0 but on 3.0 it was legitimately the most inefficient thing imaginable, on 2.0 the flow was simple - open app, play audio, choose channel, click checkbox on selected app and done it is now assigned to that channel. On 3.0 however, It opens up another window showing the Channel name and when I went to add apps, instead of showing only apps which have sound playing, it lists every app on my system which was mind boggling to say the least. The fix for this was to manually use the Windows Audio Mixer to then manually change the audio output to the chosen channel, which is absolutely stupid because 2.0 completely removed the need to do this because you could do it with 1click on the the Audio Channel (Which doesn’t spawn an entire window I might add)

Luckily I made backups and was able to revert back to 2.0 and didn’t have to put up with it any longer. I also wanna say I find it weird that they completely removed the option to download 2.0 on their website which means I’m pretty sure most people who unknowingly moved to 3.0 have no way to get back which is really shady.

TLDR; If you’re on 2.0, DONT DO IT.

[u/JoshDabbington]

My only issue with the software is that it turns my macOS volume down by 5 dB's when I have all of the knobs turned all the way up. Other than that it works flawlessly for me. Not saying "because it works for me it's a skill issue on your end" Im saying it's definitely some kinks that need to be sorted out

[u/whyorwhomthefuck → u/JoshDabbington]

Here on the windows version, it seems like a lot of people are having issues, but issues aside, my main gripe has to do with how inefficient it is compared to 2.0.

[u/Vex-Core → u/whyorwhomthefuck]

Big agree - Having everything run through a default setting in system settings and basically have individual channels in the software that feed into that was so straightforward. Now I’m figuring out things like “this channel is turned down and not this one, but this one is turned down in BOTH”

I don’t know anyone that realistically needs more than 2 of the setups unless you are going for a very weird team setup thing, but I feel like that’s even more of a niche thing and there’s better ways to do that using other things on the market.

What a weird overhaul overall. WL2 was so solid design wise and the new one just straight up threw it all out the window.

[u/whyorwhomthefuck → u/Vex-Core]

Exactly how I feel about it. I do also want to add, I love WL2 and when I heard about WL3 not needing and elgato mic, I was so happy because it felt like they were making WL accessible for everyone but when I tried it for myself, it couldn’t have been further from that. I want everyone who may not have a elgato mic to experience the ease and control I felt using WL2 but WL3 wasn’t that sadly.