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I m using Waves plugins with my Duende on a PC. Duende is actually my sound maker after that i use some of Waves plugins on the mix (Rverb, Rbass, Rvox, V-Comp and API Emulations). I was just wondering if there are any better plugins than waves in VST range i heard alot about UAD but that is now out my budget.

Guest post by Brandon S. Hire of The Noise Floor. Brandon recently went hell with getting his Waves VST3 plugins all into REAPER. He got through it and I asked him to share the experience to help others in the same situation. Any clues to solving problems like this are gold.

Waves recently announced a new subscription plan which allows users to subscribe to their Silver and Mercury bundles. I decided to give this a try and download the Mercury Bundle. As a long time REAPER user and long time Waves user, I didn’t anticipate any problems.

To put it bluntly, I had problems. 70s's synth vst free. But the problems were neither the fault of Waves or of Cockos. The folks at Waves’ tech support team were awesome at helping me figure out the problem, and I want to document the issue here in case any of you are experiencing something similar.

A collaboration creation of Waves and Abbey Road Studios, J37 is a tape saturation plugin that emulates iconic hardware from the 60’s. At its core are multiple adjustable controls for managing the Tape Speed, Bias, Noise, and Saturation among other parameters. Double click folder options, click the 'View' tab from the top and under 'Hidden Files and Folders' select 'Show hidden files,folders and drives'. Click ok and exit Control Panel. Next we want to navigate to the following folder locations and delete the folders. C: Program Files (x86) Waves C: Users YOURUSERNAME AppData Roaming Waves Audio. The Waves Central program does not let you specifiy an install location for the plugins, only for samples (in my case samples for an electric piano plugin). The actual plugins get installed to a new folder in Program Files/Waves. You'll either need to add that folder to Reaper or copy/paste/cut the new Waves folder and put it with your other. That fixed it, the Waves folder now shows up and the plugins work. This solution assumes a proper installation of Waves of course. I noticed in the newly installed Studio One that there was only ONE location entered for Plugin location: C: Program Files VSTPlugins. Unsurprisingly, Waves has a bunch of incredible plug-ins. This list BARELY scratches the surface of what they offer as a company! These 15 plugins are truly among the best ones in the game right now, but there are SO many more in the Waves arsenal that can greatly impact your production. The problem occurs because both 32bit and 64bit Waves plugins all sit in the same folder within Program Files (x86) – a location normally used for 32bit stuff! Try as you may by pointing your DAW to the right location, both Cubase and Maschine were not having it!

Note that I’m not advising you to take these steps yourselves. If you’re having issues, there may be other factors that are causing your issues. Your best bet is to contact support at Waves or Cockos and see if you can get assistance with the issue. With that being said, here’s what happened:

To make a long story short, I noticed that about half of the Mercury bundle plugins weren’t showing up in VST3 format in REAPER. The same plugs would show up in VST and AU formats, which indicated that the plugins were in fact installed on the system. So I decided to clear the cache in the plugins preferences and rescan the plugins folder.

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As it scanned the VST3 plugins from Waves, it stalled at Greg Wells MixCentric. Then REAPER flat out crashed. When I re-launched REAPER, there was still no sign of the missing VST3 plugins, and MixCentric was one of them.

So I contacted Waves support. After trying a couple of things, we were able to remedy the problem with a clean install. This required that I go through a few steps to uninstall everything Waves related on my system, and then allow only the newest versions of everything to be installed by Waves Central. The whole process took a couple of hours, but by the end of it all I was back up and running. When I loaded REAPER again, I cleared the cache and re-scanned again. This time there was no crash, and at the end of the scan I had all of the missing plugins.

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Uninstall the latest v9.6 of your Waves plug-ins for the system:
  1. Quit all audio related software.
  2. Launch Waves Central and login. Choose: Install->Uninstall Products (at the top).
  3. Choose All Waves plugins V9 click ‘Uninstall‘.
  4. Once the uninstall is finished – quit Waves Central.
  1. Quit all the audio related software on your Mac.
  2. Please use the Waves uninstaller to remove all the Waves software from your computer, located in Applications > Waves > Utilities > Waves uninstaller and check “Remove All” to remove also the old versions. (If not available skip to the next step)
  3. Delete “Waves” folder located in your Applications folder
  4. Go to the following locations and delete any WaveShell file/s of any version number found:
    1. HD > Library > Audio > Plug-ins > Components
    2. HD > Library > Audio > Plug-ins > VST
    3. HD > Library > Audio > Plug-ins > VST3
    4. HD > Library > Application Support > Avid > Audio > Plug-Ins*
    5. HD > Library > Application Support > Digidesign > Plug-ins*
      * This location is only present if Protools is installed
  5. Delete the “Waves Preferences” folder located at HD > Users > Current user > Library > Preferences (this folder is accessed by going to the Go menu and holding down the Altoption key. This will reveal the Library option)
  6. Delete the folder “Waves” located at HD > Current User > Library > Caches (this folder is accessed by opening the Go menu and holding down the [Alt/Option] key. This will reveal the Library option)
  7. Go to Mac HD > Library > Application Support and delete the “Waves” and “Waves Audio” folders.

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To reinstall Waves Central and your Waves V9 products –
  • Download the latest version of Waves Central from this direct linkand install it on your computer.
  • Follow the instructions on theInstalling your Waves products and demos article on our support page in order to reinstall your activated products.
Afterwards, please launch REAPER and re scan again for the plug-ins.

As a long-time waves user, I’ve been slowly accumulating a collection of plugs prior to this subscription being available. That means I’ve been installing them intermittently over the last two years on this machine, and there have been updates since then. Those updates most likely were conflicting with previous files I’d installed, causing some to go missing and others to trigger a system crash. That’s why performing a clean install of everything worked. There was no longer old stuff mucking up the works and conflicting with the new stuff.

As mentioned above, if you’re having an issue with the new subscription working properly in REAPER, you should be certain that you’re using the VST3 version of the plugin in question. If it didn’t show up, a clean install may be the answer. I would do this with Waves tech support, as there may be further issues. Now that I’m up and running with the supported VST3 plugins, everything is running exactly as it should. I couldn’t be happier.

/best-guitar-vst-plugins-2018.html. Thanks to Brandon for writing this up and sharing the info.

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