Waves 9 installation on Venue

[Tim McCullcoh]

Waves makes it sound so simple: download the Waves 9 for Venue self-extracting executable, extract to the root of a USB drive and the console will see the plugs for installation.

Yeah, right. So far it doesn't do that. It creates a folder called TDM Plug Ins that has several layers of subfolders that cannot be navigated from the Options/Plugins tab.

Has anyone recently installed Waves v9?

[RyanJ]

Is your USB key FAT32 Formatted?

and a file hierarchy like this?

[Tim McCullcoh]

Hi Ryan-

Yes, and yes. Waves has reached out and the plugs are installed. I believe it was corruption during extraction as starting over with the same USB drive and using the same USB port on console worked. I'd done it twice already and never had the "Waves 9" show up in the available plug in list, this time it did. Thanks for checking.

[justinphilip]

I have a related issue.
I bought the SSL bundle from Waves today.
Downloaded the venue installer. It created a TDM folder on the usb drive. I was able to install it on the SC48.
However, it lists every dang plugin in the list in the Plugins Tab.
I thought it would only install the SSL bundle...not the ones I don't have licenses for.

And it sucks I have to keep the USB drive connected to use these plugins. Grr.

Any thoughts? Thanks!!

[nikhilmulay]

The venue installer has all of their plugins so would install everything. There is no way to choose. Irritating, but it's how waves choose to do it.
It's a very straightforward install though.

And a little tip.. You only need to have the drive in to load your show and initialize the plugins. After that you can pull out the drive and carry on with the gig.

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[Kristo Kotkas]

Originally Posted by justinphilip

I have a related issue.
I bought the SSL bundle from Waves today.
Downloaded the venue installer. It created a TDM folder on the usb drive. I was able to install it on the SC48.
However, it lists every dang plugin in the list in the Plugins Tab.
I thought it would only install the SSL bundle...not the ones I don't have licenses for.

And it sucks I have to keep the USB drive connected to use these plugins. Grr.

Any thoughts? Thanks!!

I haven't done this for a while but I think you can go and exit-to-desktop, then navigate to the actual folder your installed Waves pulgins are in and move the ones you don't use to some other folder, name it "unused_waves_plugins" if you like and you should not be bothered with the plugins you don't have licenses for anymore.

[justinphilip]

Originally Posted by Kristo Kotkas

I haven't done this for a while but I think you can go and exit-to-desktop, then navigate to the actual folder your installed Waves pulgins are in and move the ones you don't use to some other folder, name it "unused_waves_plugins" if you like and you should not be bothered with the plugins you don't have licenses for anymore.

Yes!

That's exactly what Waves support told me.

Our Waves-for-Venue installer does install all available v9 plug-ins - However, it is possible to exclude unused plug-ins from the list, by taking the following steps:

1. Exit to Windows (by placing the console in CONFIG mode, then hold Ctrl and click the Shutdown button).
2. Access Start Menu > My Computer > C: > Program Files > Waves > Plug-ins.
3. Move any plug-in .Bundle file that is not in-use to the 'Unused Plug-ins' folder.
4. Go back to C:\Program Files\Waves and launch the file Clear Plug-in Menu.