[Jeffery Foster]

Greetings,

I am having a terrible time trying to install our new Waves v9 Mercury bundle onto our SC48. I have been on phone support with both Avid and Waves, and everyone is stumped.

Important details:
1. We have completely nuked all traces of the existing waves plug ins in order to start for scratch. All files and folders with "waves" in the name is gone.
2. I have d'ld "Waves_For_Venue2.exe", and extracted the files to the root level on my flash drive. Inserted flash drive to console and...
3. Waves v9 shows up in the drop down list on the left side of the plug in screen.
4. I choose Waves v9 and click "install" in the center. This starts an hour long process to install the plug ins and accepting the Waves license.
5. With my license USB key inserted, I Try to instatiate any of my new Waves v9 plugins, that are now listed individually in the appropriate drop down list.
6. Receive Waves License Error that the plug in doesn't have a valid license, "skip or scan again?"
7. Pour whiskey into glass, start process over....

For the obvious things, I have used more than one USB sticks, each formatted to FAT32 on a PC. Waves has verified that my licenses are indeed active and correct.

Please, for whomever can solve this, you'll have untold riches.