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.

+ 1 to what Mod says.

Hi Dave,

I gave that a try several times, several ways, no go.

I ended up moving my licenses back up to the cloud and uninstalling waves.
Then I did a search on my system for any traces of waves left behind in folders and deleted them.
I did a rescan in Sonar to ensure that no waves were left in the vstfx list and closed Sonar.

At that point I ran the woli.exe again and it was like installing waves for the first time. It took awhile but the installer loaded everything.
When I opened sonar, I have scan on startup enabled, the scan stopped and a dialog box popped up wanting me to run the waves license center. I ran it, moved the licenses from the cloud to the machine and closed license center. The sonar scan completed and everything was there and working.

Probably the long way around the block but it worked. Now I just need to do the same thing on the laptop and all is good again.

OT: was anyone able to use a Waves voucher for the sale items?

>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

after you uninstall waves there are some folders that it leaves on your machine. I did a search for waves and found the folders, about 5 of them, and deleted them before I did the reinstall.

See my post right above yours.

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 find it interesting that so many people had issues with plug in installation. X2 seems to require me to do a complete scan and include previously installed plugs and then exit X2. When sonar restarts everything's there. It never used to be this clunky, did it?

At any rate, waves is installed and that CL-76 "Bluey" is rocking the Eco drums I snagged. On cyber Monday I will be blocking all e-store's in my browser. My daughter will need college money in a couple years. 

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.

My utmost sympathies to us Wave's victims.  Waves has always behaved quirkily for me and my comp expertise is strained to the limits with Waves.

Currently, I'm pretty scared to upgrade or add anything from my older installation (which barely functions with J-Bridge)

CyberMonday ... the Wave's site has been crashing (for me) ... as I re-thought options.

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...