Waves plugin installation?

Waves defaults to Program Files/Steinberg/Vstplugins... or....  Program Files(x86)/Steinberg/Vstplugin    So..  You may have accidentally installed them in there, while I am quite sure your Vstplugins folder is most likely Program Files/Cakewalk/Vstplugins...

I suggest:  Searching your hard disk, for Vstplugin folders you might not realize you have, and confirming Sonar is aware of all possible Vstplugin folders.

Cheers

Thanks Linear Phase. Still getting the hang of the plugin folder/.dll housekeeping thing. Found it in C:/prog files (x86)/waves/ plugins. Added that to the scan list and it's there now. Thanks again.

Hi rtucker55, sorry for late reply, we both posted at the same time last night. i didnt know you posted. Yeah, Waves' website traffic was making things difficult all day. -- Ampfixer, I did similar things as you did, reinstall Version9 and restarts, but i think my issue was caused by incorrect path for plugin scan. Strange thing is, i had another Waves bundle in the same folder that had been working for months, so apparently that folder was being scanned. So, i dont kno for sure. Like i said above, still getting the hang of this .dll housekeeping. I know i have stuff scattered around and not efficiently kept, but don't want to create a mess trying to clean it up. Have left well enough alone. Learn a little more each time i install a new plug, which isn't very often.

Barczar


 However, I'm having trouble getting the sidechain to work. I set up a seperate bus for the music but can't find the sidechain input on the Vocal Rider. 

Right, set up a new bus, and route a send from a track, to the input on the rider...    Have you tried the next step?   I don't have the V Rider, here is an image with the Sonitus Comp




If its not as simple as that, you have some error, or troubleshooting that must be done with the manual...

Cheers

Thanks for the suggestion Linear. I tried that but the side chain from the vocal rider doesn't show up as an option. The compressor sidechain does. Strange.

+ 1 to what Mod says.

>To get my new Waves plugins to be added to SONAR I had to re-scan existing plugins.
 
That did not work for me (first thing I thought of).
 
I already had LoAir installed (and recognized by Sonar), but I can't find anything called LoAir.dll or some variation anywhere.  What's the deal with how Waves is installed anyway?  Is there some way I can verify the software actually installed? 
 
I put all my 64 bit plug-ins under /Program Files/VST/Vendor-name.  There's some kind of shell dll under /Program Files/VST/Waves, but I have no idea what it's supposed to be, nor did I notice if it changed size with the install of the new stuff.
 
Any suggestions?  Does uninstall work for Waves stuff?  I have no aversion to doing an uninstall/reinstall if that works.  Earlier in this thread ampfixer mentioned it worked for him (or her?), but I'm not sure what was meant by "deleted everything from the machine".
 
Thanks.

dmbaer



 
I put all my 64 bit plug-ins under /Program Files/VST/Vendor-name.  There's some kind of shell dll under /Program Files/VST/Waves, but I have no idea what it's supposed to be, nor did I notice if it changed size with the install of the new stuff.
 

The actual plug-ins won't be in your VST folder, just the Waves shell, which allows you to load Waves plug-ins as VST. I'm not on PC, but on my Mac, I have an application folder in which all the actual Waves plug-ins reside (in a subfolder called Waves plug-ins) and then a Waves shell in my Audio Units folder, another one in my VST folder, another one in my RTAS folder, etc.

I did an uninstall/reinstall and the plug-ins showed up.  I did not do the rigorous search-and-destroy described by rtucker55, although I thank rtucker55 for reminding me to move the licenses back to the cloud first.
 
But I wasn't out of the woods yet.  I wanted to check that would all come up as authorized.  So I fired up X2 and loaded one, deleted it to load another, and X2 froze and would not restart without a reboot.  Rebooted, same behavior.  Rebooted to see if I could identify a pattern and this time everything worked.  Unsettling!  It now all works, but who knows why or if the behavior will return at some point.

Dave Modisette

Mod Bod


To get my new Waves plugins to be added to SONAR I had to re-scan existing plugins.  If I am correct, the Waves plugins live within a shell and re-scanning the shell causes the new ones to be picked up by the plugins manager.  That's my best guess at what's happening.

That worked for me.  Thanks!  Maserati looks quite interesting...

subtlearts
I'm in the middle of this hellish process right now. Had a demo of Maserati GRP which I liked and bought (on sale of course) and have since registered the serial, run the Waves Central install&activate process and scanned in Sonar. No go. Running a rescan of existing right now... hopefully that will work. If not, I guess I'll try the full uninstall and reinstall. Not my favorite thing. At all. 
 
Why should it be this difficult? I like some of their stuff but this is giving me hives. Have to remember this next time they make something seem like a no-brainer. Mental note: it's a brainer. I have to add the cost of lost work time wrestling with the arcane and punitive license and install BS. Argh. 
 
EDIT: Well, the full uninstall and reinstall seems to have done the trick. However, I will still be a bit warier of them in future. Annoying. Still, they do make some nice-sounding stuff...

Yes, if you are "upgrading" from the older installer to Waves Central, uninstalling first is the way to go, but I think it is a good practice to launch Waves Central first and move all of your local licenses to the cloud. Then exit Waves Central and run the old uninstaller.
 
Worked out fine for me, though it took forever to get all the plugins reinstalled and activated again.
 
Dan
 

kitekrazy1
They make installation so difficult.  I hate the all in one installer. It's really easy to mess something up.

It's easier with Waves Central than with the older "all in one" since you can now only install plugins that are in your account and still have licenses available. You no longer have to remember which ones you purchased...
 
Regards,
Dan