Hello good men and women of the Sonar Forum.

I am trying to use a Tune plug in from the Waves Vocal Bundle. I see it in my VST plug ins, I can open it up, but I get a message of 'Rewire Link Can Not Be Established, please check your settings'.

Any thoughts as to what I need to do? I am trying to use the plug in on vocal track.

Thanks so much.

Hmm sounds like it got buggered on install. Have you tried tried uninstalling it and reintalling it? If that is not it maybe trouble with the iLok? a VST shouldn't need rewire when you are simply inserting it into a vocal track as an effect. That sounds just plain wierd.

That's what I thought as well. The Ilock is working properly as I tested the other modules within the bundle and they work fine. I selected 'Waves/Tune' as my Rewire Device, now I don't get the message. However, the plug in doesn't seem to recognize the track because the changes I make don't take effect.

Thanks for responding. I will just contact Waves.

Ok, good luck with that. I am rooting for ya!

how you fixed it? I got the same problem thanks

This is an old thread, but I thought I'd post a solution. I recently got the Waves RenMaxx bundle and had the same issue.
 
Note: I haven't used the plugin but I did get it to install in a track without the ReWire error.
The info for this came from the Sonar X2 Help - I just noticed this thread is for non-"X" versions; hopefully it's of some use.
 
I assume the rewire DLL is registered, and I don't know when/where that happens for sure. In my case, I have a C:\Audio Software\VSTPlugins where I put all of my VST plugs. For Waves, I have a Waves folder under that folder (C:\Audio Software\VSTPlugins\Waves) where I've copied the 64 bit shell (that way I don't have the 32 bit versions registered and/or showing up in my list of plugs). I also copied the WavesReWireDevice_x64.dll to that folder from C:\Program Files (x86)\Waves\ReWire. I don't know if that's required but it's what I've done.
 
In the track view, open the browser and click on the PlugIns tab. I have a "Waves ReWire" object, which I dragged to the track pane, creating a new track as a Simple Instrument Track. Then I clicked on the "Audio FX" tab of the browser, navigate to the Waves Tune Lite xxx plug, and dragged it to the new track.
 
From there I guess you'd put your vocal or other clips on the track and be able to use the plugin.