Waves GUI and Sonar, whats the deal??

Metz, it's tough to say whose to blame on this one as I know nothing about how this stuff gets coded or works in different DAWS. But, Sonar is the only program where I have the problem you mentioned. Everything else I use, the Waves knobs and faders work perfectly.

This has been the case for me since Waves 7 I believe. There were times when I had to open a plug twice in order for the GUI to show itself. That is fixed thankfully, but now we have the knob/fader issue. Waves 9 is better than 8 with this. I still notice it but it doesn't bother me as bad as it did in 8. 7 was the worst of all. So it's getting better...but at this time, I wouldn't know who to blame...but I sure wish someone would/could fix it.

-Danny

Weird... I have v9 of all plugins and the latest versions as well.

/M

I had a similar problem when I went to V9. I went back to V8 and all is well. I'm missing out on the 64 bit benefit though.

Rocky

There may be several possible reasons for this behavior.

Have you tried running X1 as "administrator"?  This may help.  I just did it
and the knobs on Master Tape were very smooth.

Even though you may be the adminstrator, if you are not right clicking and selecting
"run as Administrator" you may have problems.  I know in order to register some
programs you must run X1 as "administrator" or the plugin activation will not "take",
i.e. Dimension Pro and Rapture.  

Just a thought...

cclarry


There may be several possible reasons for this behavior.

Have you tried running X1 as "administrator"?  This may help.  I just did it
and the knobs on Master Tape were very smooth.

Even though you may be the adminstrator, if you are not right clicking and selecting
"run as Administrator" you may have problems.  I know in order to register some
programs you must run X1 as "administrator" or the plugin activation will not "take",
i.e. Dimension Pro and Rapture.  

Just a thought...

Is right clicking and selecting 'run as administrator' each time, 
different than 
just setting it up to 'run as administrator' in the properties?

Make sure you disable XRay when using waves plugins. Not sure about the most recent plugins but prior ones had graphics issues when Xray was active in SONAR. (you have to disable it even if Xray is not on since it sets a windows property always)

I too have problems with the sliders and knobs Not turning All the way in one click and sweeep. Works fine if you open a project, don't pass Audio, play with knobs (work fine), run audio through once and then they don't work right again (have to re-click and drag, more than once most times). I've actually showed waves this Via Cross Loop Connect. Don't know when it'll be fixed. There's been 1 waves update since, but problem is still there.

fyi, there was a known issue with AMD/ATI video drivers. upgrading to latest fixed an issue for me.

Waves has MOST certainly heard of it. They witnessed it on my computer. Btw- I have the latest update as of 9/15 and the GUI problem is STILL there.

I have the latest graphicsdriver, latest installers, latest everything. I've tried disabling x-ray and it didn't work (not sure if I restarted SOnar though, if that's needed.

BUT....

It seems to be working better in Sonar X2. At least so far. I've had times recently when it has worked better as well but then started with the weird behaviour again. So it might be a bit early to tell. But all tests have worked so far.

I've even offered Waves to send them a video I made of the problem. But they dont seem interested.
They say they never experienced the problem and it's working fine on their test setup. That obviously is enough for them. I think it sucks. Because on their DAW-compability site it says X1 is compatible.

I also noticed that their NS1 noise reduction worked MUCH better under Sonar X2 for some weird reason. And I'm not talking about the GUI here but sound. In X1 I had to pull the slider up to 80% to get rid of the noise of my guitar. But on X2 20% was enough.
And yes, I was testing with a clean new project with the default template. So no weird settings messing about...

/M

metz


Hi!

I've started to use some Waves plugins lately. Kramer Master Tape, HLS, HNS etc...

All plugins have problems in Sonar where pulling knobs and sliders gets stuck and act in weird ways. The plugs themselves works fine audiowise but their GUI works like crap. Any way around this? I've seen that I'm not the only one to experience these problems. When looking at Waves compability-page it says that the plugs work fine. Obviously they aren't 100% compatible with Sonar so I feel a bit cheated actually.

Is there a way to fix this problem? Who is to blame? Cake or Waves? Who's doing it wrong?

/M

I've had funky GUI / Preset Scrolling issues with Soundtoys plugins. I've been told JBridge fixes these issues. I will report back. 

Hi; My name is Dave From Waves Tech Support. We are not aware of a general graphic related issue with Sonar X1 and Waves. A common issue our users experience when using Waves on Windows based systems are graphic related. The cause of this is frequently related to incompatible graphic adapters or relatively old drivers. We suggest installing the latest driver for your display adapter. Latest and certified Drivers are available on all manufacturers’ websites. If you still experience issues we would need to look at this case by case. Feel free to contact us by clicking on the “Contact Us” action within your Waves account. Thanks

BTW- I installed CrossLoop connect on 5/25/2012 JUST for this Tech support issue. Hope that helps!