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

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

That was happening to me for awhile , But then it stopped freezing ..... The Waves plugs been doing great for months now .....  ,,,,,,,,,   All I did was install the newest version of V9 ..... Thats got to be what fixed it

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

/M

Don't know if this will help, but try setting your system theme to as basic (win2000 or classic type) as you can. Some of the newer windows themes seem to compete for graphical resources.
 
Steve

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

Is this not X-Ray related?

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...

I usually find as long as the "yellow circle thing lights" up,it means your mouse pointer is in the right part of the GUI,to make an adjustment,and don't really feel its that big a deal I spose.

When I couldn't get a 64bit version of the Kramer Tape to show up for 2 days,I got a bit spun,but Waves support was right onto it,and it turned out to be a registry deletion needed to be done for that.

The only other thing Iv'e had was sometimes when control clicking to duplicate,I would get NO GUI,but THAT has stopped happening now.

I guess as its still only a year or so,I'm just still so amazed all this stuff works as well as it does,to be too freaked by it too much?

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?