That's a bummer cecelius2.  I've bought from WU many times and they're good guys - very communicative, great support, etc.  I would guess that it was an honest mistake resulting from being overwhelmed by this sale.
 
BTW, does anybody here have the One-Knob series?  I've always sorta liked the idea of these simple little tools and for the price ($38 at AD!), I think I might go for it.

I find them useful as last stage track tweakers when mixing.  If something needs a skosh more something they are tres easy to use. At $38...they're worth it.

I just went back to Audio Deluxe, used the same code and got the Aphex Exiter.  Installed and registered. 

yorolpal
I find them useful as last stage track tweakers when mixing.  If something needs a skosh more something they are tres easy to use. At $38...they're worth it.

Thanks yorolpal!  Bought!  I'm sure I'll get a lot of use out of these, especially for getting quick mixes and scratch tracks together.

I've picked up Element as well but Sonar doesn't seem to like it much.  I've had several "Sonar.exe has stopped working and must close" crashes on either instantiation or closing a project after instantiation.  Everything else working hunky dory.

I had those types of problems with all my waves plugs back in January 13. I worked with Waves and Cake tech support and the Cake guy finally realized that the Waves installation had installed a duplicate version of a Microsoft C++ library but it was a different version number and things were getting confused which one to use.  I had to uninstall the C++ libraries and re-install new versions for both x86 and x64. That solved all of my waves issues.
 
I just received my new Waves plugs and wanted everything to be at the same V9r12 so I uninstalled my waves then ran the new installer and selected all the plugs I own. Sure enough, it also installed a couple of different versions of the same C++ libraries that are already on my machine. From what I can see it only affected the 2005 Redistributable s.
 
I am going to have to go back and review the email that the Cake guy sent me to resolve the problem and then see if I can get things here working again.  For grins, You may want to take a look in Control Panel/Programs and Features to see if you have any duplicates that have different version numbers. i.e.  2 entries for the: Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (X64)
 
Kind regards,
Rck
 

Yep, that fixed my crash problems. I uninstalled the one duplicate Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable (X64) and everything works fine now.
 
Hope you get yours sorted.

I have 14 C++ libraries on my computer. Multiple versions of every one. How do you know which version to save? If this is a possible cause of Sonar hiccups (or plug problems) you think Cakewalk would have put up a sticky some place.

I hope it is ok to post this excerpt from the email I received from Cakes Tech Support. If not, Its' been nice knowing you all but here is what they sent me:
 
"Thank you for contacting Cakewalk Technical Support. You will see a recap of our phone conversation below. If you have another support question please visit http://www.cakewalk.com/support/contact/ts.aspx or call 617-423-9021.
Thank you for choosing Cakewalk!

Problem/Questions: When inserting any of the Waves plug-ins into SONAR X2a, there is a white screen and a crash.

Solutions: According to your dump files, mfc100u.dll was where the problem was.
Typically when a lot of C++ components are crashing, I usually recommend people try installing their Microsoft C++ Redistributable Libraries. Many third-party applications will install these so sometimes the libraries can get skewed as multiple versions exist on the same computer. This may be why things are running smooth on one computer but not another. It might not be SONAR at all, but more so the C++ libraries. Here's what I would do:
 
Go to Start > All Programs > Programs and Features and to uninstall any Microsoft C++ Redistributable Packages listed. Afterwards, I would re-download these packages directly from Microsoft and re-install them. I have listed the most common Redistributable packages below. If you’re on a 32-bit operating system, I'd get the first three. If you’re on a 64-bit operating system, the second three. If you run both 32-bit and 64-bit SONAR on a 64-bit operating system, install them all.
 
For 32-bit operating systems or 32-bit programs on 64-bit operating systems:

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package x86: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5638

 

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package x86: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5582

 

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package x86: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5555

For 64-bit operating systems:

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package x64: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18471

 

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package x64: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=2092

 

• Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable Package x64: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=14632

I hope this helps on that front."
 
I can't guarantee that the above links are still good.
 
On my system I have both x86 and x64 for the 2005, 2008, and 2010 plus I have a 2012 x64. The important thing is that you do not have two of the same pacakge with different version numbers. After the waves install I had two of the 2005 x64 with different version numbers. I just un-installed the oldest version and I'm working now.

Thanks rtucker55 for posting your communication with Cakewalk support concerning the solution for C++ and Waves crashes.  This is good info to have on hand.