Waves V13 slow loading

[Sonopolis]

Hi forum,

I'm experiencing extremely slow loading times of session with Waves V13 plug-ins. A session containing 10 empty tracks with only a RenCompressor on each takes about 50 seconds to load. You can see in the pop-up window during session start that PT struggles with these tracks, others are loaded quickly.

Additionally, clicking the Preset Selector button on any Waves V13 results in a spinning beach ball for about 2 seconds. However presets load instantly with the arrow buttons. This also happens in Reaper, so it's not a PT issue.

Anyone experiencing the same? Is it correct, that the Waves Presets folders in installed under users/shared. I have the feeling it's a permissions issue but permissions are repaired.

This is on Mojave with the PT Ultimate 2021.12.

[JFreak]

It is pretty common when you need to use WavesHell. Life without it has been awesome

[its2loud]

Originally Posted by JFreak

It is pretty common when you need to use WavesHell. Life without it has been awesome

Is there any way for you to help without complaining about Waves? We get it. You don’t like Waves plugins, but many people do, and your incessant need to discredit Waves plugins is not helpful to others who might need help with them.

If you don’t have anything useful to say, please refrain from responding to these types of posts. It’s just negative banter and doesn’t contribute anything to the forum.

[its2loud]

Originally Posted by Sonopolis

Hi forum,

I'm experiencing extremely slow loading times of session with Waves V13 plug-ins. A session containing 10 empty tracks with only a RenCompressor on each takes about 50 seconds to load. You can see in the pop-up window during session start that PT struggles with these tracks, others are loaded quickly.

Additionally, clicking the Preset Selector button on any Waves V13 results in a spinning beach ball for about 2 seconds. However presets load instantly with the arrow buttons. This also happens in Reaper, so it's not a PT issue.

Anyone experiencing the same? Is it correct, that the Waves Presets folders in installed under users/shared. I have the feeling it's a permissions issue but permissions are repaired.

It’s possible this is an issue with Waves v13 running on Mojave or if your system an older Mac that doesn’t have a Metal video card. Metal is required for v13

This is on Mojave with the PT Ultimate 2021.12.

Maybe a Mojave thing? If you’re on an older Mac, be sure your video card is Metal compatible. V13 requires Metal.

Otherwise Waves support tends to be very helpful

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by its2loud

Is there any way for you to help without complaining about Waves? We get it. You don’t like Waves plugins, but many people do, and your incessant need to discredit Waves plugins is not helpful to others who might need help with them.

If you don’t have anything useful to say, please refrain from responding to these types of posts. It’s just negative banter and doesn’t contribute anything to the forum.

Just pointing that removing one bit from the system has made everything so much more stable and snappy. Prove me wrong and I stand corrected.

[its2loud]

Originally Posted by JFreak

Just pointing that removing one bit from the system has made everything so much more stable and snappy. Prove me wrong and I stand corrected.

Prove you wrong? No thanks, I left my childhood playground banter on the school yard about 40 years ago.

I didn’t realize this forum was about competing for fastest system performance.

Happy New Year

[JFreak]

Happy New Year everyone.

Just a final word. Waves used to be good when they back in the day had TDM plugins and iLok authorization. But these new systems are a total mess. I wasn't a Waves Hater (which I am being called) a decade ago, go figure.

[Sonopolis]

Originally Posted by its2loud

Maybe a Mojave thing? If you’re on an older Mac, be sure your video card is Metal compatible. V13 requires Metal.

Otherwise Waves support tends to be very helpful

Thank you. Just double checked. It's an older machine but it is Metal compatible.

Could anyone please check if that location of the presets folder is correct in users/shared/waves and how the permissions must be there?

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by Sonopolis

how the permissions must be

If you are absolutely certain your admin protools user is the only one using that computer, you can go to Terminal and issue this command:

sudo chmod -Rf 755 /Applications
sudo chmod -Rf 755 /Library
sudo chmod -Rf 755 ~/Library

Bad idea if it is a shared computer, mind you.

[its2loud]

Originally Posted by Sonopolis

Thank you. Just double checked. It's an older machine but it is Metal compatible.

Could anyone please check if that location of the presets folder is correct in users/shared/waves and how the permissions must be there?

This is the location on my system and I'm running Mojave.

Permissions are set for Read & Write