sharke

bapu
My Waves plugs just simply work in SONAR, Reaper, Studio One 3 Pro and Mixbus.
 

Damn that's what I thought too, until this happened tonight in Mixbus with ALL of my VEQ's
 

 
Opening and closing the GUI didn't help. I would have to either delete the EQ and load it again, or restart the project. Didn't happen with any other of the non-Waves plugins in the project. 
 

At first blush, that looks like the old context sharing bug in Waveshell. There is a fix posted somewhere on these forums that fixed it for me.
 
In essence, create an empty text file named the following, in the following location:
"c:\ProgramData\Waves Audio\no_context_sharing.txt"
 
Regards,
Dan
 

dcumpian

sharke

bapu
My Waves plugs just simply work in SONAR, Reaper, Studio One 3 Pro and Mixbus.
 

Damn that's what I thought too, until this happened tonight in Mixbus with ALL of my VEQ's
 

 
Opening and closing the GUI didn't help. I would have to either delete the EQ and load it again, or restart the project. Didn't happen with any other of the non-Waves plugins in the project. 
 

At first blush, that looks like the old context sharing bug in Waveshell. There is a fix posted somewhere on these forums that fixed it for me.
 
In essence, create an empty text file named the following, in the following location:
"c:\ProgramData\Waves Audio\no_context_sharing.txt"
 
Regards,
Dan
 

Interesting thanks, will try. 

Well, it's been a while and a few projects later and I've made my final decision about Waves plugins. I can't and won't use them.

Whaaa? You ask? Well, the plugins themselves are very good. I like them. What doesn't work for me is that in order for the plugins to work at all, they need to be connected to the Internet. Whaaa? You ask again. If you are not connected to the Internet for any reason, and have Waves plugins 9 or newer, and you have Waves plugins in your Sonar project, when you launch the project in Sonar the Waves plugins will not load and Sonar will tell you so.

I thought this was an error, so I reached out to Waves support and they verified what I am telling you.

Now, the point is not that it's easy to stay connected to the Internet. The problem is that regardless of why you are not connected, they will not load. I once heard the best practice for a dedicated DAW is to never connect to the Internet.

I just cannot accept a product that has to be constantly connected to the Internet to function --period. So I wasted a little money on some plugs. Hey, maybe I'll use them here and there and do a quick print with them in a track and then remove it, who knows. I just wanted to share the unfortunate results of my investigation.

Too many other great plugins to choose from!

razor
Whaaa? You ask? Well, the plugins themselves are very good. I like them. What doesn't work for me is that in order for the plugins to work at all, they need to be connected to the Internet. Whaaa? You ask again. If you are not connected to the Internet for any reason, and have Waves plugins 9 or newer, and you have Waves plugins in your Sonar project, when you launch the project in Sonar the Waves plugins will not load and Sonar will tell you so.

That is strange. Didn't sound right to me, so I just disabled my network connection, opened a project in X3, and the Waves plugins were there and working fine. Dunno why you're having a problem, but that's the first I've heard that Waves plugins have to be run on a machine connected to the Internet. There are many studios running Waves that definitely do not have their DAWs on the net. Something else must be going on here.
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

razor, did you auth to the computer or to USB stick? I auth to a USB stick and can disconnect from the internet and run Waves just fine.

bapu
razor, did you auth to the computer or to USB stick? I auth to a USB stick and can disconnect from the internet and run Waves just fine.

USB iLok. No longer supported.

Eddie TX

razor
Whaaa? You ask? Well, the plugins themselves are very good. I like them. What doesn't work for me is that in order for the plugins to work at all, they need to be connected to the Internet. Whaaa? You ask again. If you are not connected to the Internet for any reason, and have Waves plugins 9 or newer, and you have Waves plugins in your Sonar project, when you launch the project in Sonar the Waves plugins will not load and Sonar will tell you so.

That is strange. Didn't sound right to me, so I just disabled my network connection, opened a project in X3, and the Waves plugins were there and working fine. Dunno why you're having a problem, but that's the first I've heard that Waves plugins have to be run on a machine connected to the Internet. There are many studios running Waves that definitely do not have their DAWs on the net. Something else must be going on here.
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

You know, I'm rereading the reply from Waves tech support and he's contradicting himself.

Let me get a little more clarification from them and I'll post back.

At this point this is what I know:

* No more support for iLok as of ver 9 --per Waves support.

* My Waves licenses are activated on my local DAW--verified by Waves support.

* If my DAW is not connected to the Internet my Waves plugins that are being used in a CW project will not load when I load that project. This has happened multiple times in different projects.

Now what I'm not clear on from rereading the support notes is if there is another way to activate my licenses besides the iLok or the web, and I'll post back after I find that out.

Thanks!

Mixbuss wants you to use its damn good eq !!! That the only explaination ...

razor
Now what I'm not clear on from rereading the support notes is if there is another way to activate my licenses besides the iLok or the web, and I'll post back after I find that out.

Thanks!

Yes, I'm auth'd to a USB stick, not an iLok.

I love the Waves stuff.  I have it auth'd to my DAW/PC