When I started to load one of the Waves plugins, Sonar x2a suddenly crashed down and showed these dialogs:


 
 



Please fix it as soon as possible!!

Have you submitted a bug report? There is nothing that users of a peer to peer forum can do to eliminate bugs.

This is not necessarily the fault of Sonar - I use Waves plugs all the time without it crashing. 
Having said that, there are some ways in which Waves does not play well with Sonar. But these are generally related to the functionality of the plugs (especially their GUI's) within the DAW. 

My Waves plugins work in X2. Not sure this meets the definition of "bug".
 
Have you been able to load the plugins previous to this crash? 

Yes, Parco. If it was a general bug nobody could use Waves plugs in SONAR, but as mentioned above, many people use them.
So it's something more specific. Submitting a bug report will point out the problems to CW, so it's worth doing.
 
Also, as mentioned above, what you write here on the forum doesn't go to CW personnel.

backwoods
My Waves plugins work in X2. Not sure this meets the definition of "bug".
 
Have you been able to load the plugins previous to this crash? 

Yup, but around crash 1 time in every 4 times loading plugins averagely.

"there are some ways in which Waves does not play well with Sonar. But these are generally related to the functionality of the plugs (especially their GUI's) within the DAW."
 
When I add a Waves Plugin the GUI usually appears blank.  When I close SONAR and reopen, the full GUI appears as it should.  Still, even with X-Ray disabled, a new addition appears blank.  No crashes, however.  What is your work around for the Waves GUI interface appearing?

mauryw
"there are some ways in which Waves does not play well with Sonar. But these are generally related to the functionality of the plugs (especially their GUI's) within the DAW."
 
When I add a Waves Plugin the GUI usually appears blank.  When I close SONAR and reopen, the full GUI appears as it should.  Still, even with X-Ray disabled, a new addition appears blank.  No crashes, however.  What is your work around for the Waves GUI interface appearing?

nothing but just clicked the [+] in the FX module of a Sonar bus and added any Waves plugins into and then just crashed immediately.
Actually seems no any GUI problems of Waves in Sonar to me.
And I'm using Waves 9r11 already.

The error message shows the path to the minidump, which contains information about which module actually raised the error. Open a support ticket with CW and send them that file. They'll be able to analyze it and perhaps tell you what's happening. Without looking at the dump, all one can glean from that message is that it was an access violation, which does indeed indicate a bug but it could be in the plugin, the Waves shell, SONAR, or the C++ runtime library. Only the minidump well tell.

Waves knows about this issue on 64-Bit systems. It's usually related to the fact that when you install the Waves plugins, it may install both 32 and 64-bit plugins. Here's what happens:
 
WaveShell installs in your 64-Bit directory, hopefully.
The actual plug-in files will attempt to be installed in both the Program Files/VST and the Program Files (x86)/VST directories (or similar). You have to "hide" the 32-bit plug-ins from Sonar. If it sees them, it has a difficult time trying to do (something), and there isn't yet an actual fix for this. After hiding the 32-bit Waves plug-ins, you'll need to re-scan your plug-ins. You may even have to Reset all your Plug-Ins.
 
It's hit or miss after that, but if you call Waves Support, they can access your system and fix this for you. Hope this helps!!