To those who were having problems installing Waves v10

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  1. FlagrantFowl

    FlagrantFowl Newbie

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    Waves v10 High Sierra 10.13.6



    I had a plethora of issues with the installation of the Waves v10 crack. I was using Waves v9 until the release of the ARTG mastering strip. I had to try it. To keep my sob story short, I did not uninstall v9 prior to installing v10. Either version showed up in the plugin manager at all. There are a number of fixes floating around. No one ‘fix’ worked. So I decided to try everything all at once. It worked. I’m no Apple genius or crack dude. I’m just a regular broke ass musician like most people. I hope you understand and follow these instructions, they are very detailed.

    1. Download Waves.Complete.2018.11.04.OSX.
    2. Downloaded Central_Offline_latest_Mac from the Waves website. This comes with the latest version of Waves Central and offline installer folder in the same listing as the cracked version. It does not contain any sample libraries. The version I used is the version of Waves v10 after the release of the ARTG strip but prior to the release of ‘Sibilance’ (Waves - 8.11.18).
    3. If you haven’t already, uninstall any previous installations of Waves. EVERYTHING. As in ALL traces. Every shell, every plugin, every folder. Every plist. Every Waves related file on your system. Delete Waves cache and preferences. If you have custom presets, back them up before you delete. If you already done this, skip to 4.
    4. Install Waves Central.
    5. Move ‘Installers’ folder out of Central_Offline_latest_Mac and place on desktop.
    6. For me, Waves Central wouldn’t allow me to open it without logging in first. If presented with this issue, login to Waves Central, and immediately cut Internet access to it. Whichever method you prefer.
    7. Install Waves in normal fashion.
    8. Run ALL AU Reg Utilities located in ‘Waveshells V10’ folder in Applications. High Sierra gave me a message about the utilities not being optimized or something. Just 'okay' it and run the programs. They should validate.
    9. Restart computer.
    10. Go to Waves.Complete.2018.11.04.OSX folder (the ‘cracked’ version), unzip if you haven’t already.
    11. Install ‘Waves_Patch-Old’.
    12. Go to ‘Waves_Patch_New_by_HEXWARS. Run keygen located there.
    13. Open Logic Pro X - Here’s where it gets tricky.

      Logic will scan AUs without asking for a license. BEWARE some plugins might come up as an error. With me, Waves DeEsser came back as an error. Logic crashed a few times as well. Other AUs that I have were interfering with the scan process for some reason, so I can’t say for certain if the crashes were a result of the Waves plugins or something else. If presented with that problem, continue to reopen Logic Pro X and allow it to scan until complete.

      If you chose to install any Waves instruments that require a sample library, it will ask for the location of said library(s). Hopefully you have them installed on an external drive somewhere (like I do). Just direct to where your Waves sample libraries are stored. Otherwise you will have no sample-based instruments until you get the libraries. Can’t help you there.

      After the initial scan, Logic will open normally and all of Waves v10 will be available to use. I closed and restarted Logic just to make sure. At least on my system it worked.

      The 'cracked' version of the installer doesn't work. At least it didn't for me.

      Cheers.

      P.S.: I can verify that MPC Software v1.9 handled its AU scan perfectly. Also, Pro Tools v12.8.0 worked with AAX.
     
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  3. Musicsoul78

    Musicsoul78 Newbie

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    nice tips... im going to start a fresh build using osx 10.13.6 then install waves , fabfilter one by one open and close logic each time then find out out compatibility issues as i go ...
     
  4. CHibeatz

    CHibeatz Newbie

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    Thank you for the detailed instructions. I am having a difficult time with this torrent, however. Everything was working fine with Waves V9.. When I updated to a different OSX and 10.4.5 - I started getting error messages.

    I followed the directions step by step, but I am still getting no license key messages for every plugin. Any advice on what I am doing wrong?
     
  5. UngaBunga

    UngaBunga Newbie

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    THANK YOU!
    I made this brand to tell you this:
    I was about to pull my fucking hair out cuz my computor is hella wrinkly, and cant run V11 Waves, so I had to go back to V10, and this guide helped me out so much. When I saw you've made my entire week, I mean that in the most literal way possible.
     
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