Waves V14 is the latest version of plugins offered by Waves, as perpetual licenses or as Waves Creative Access subscriptions. Find answers to all your questions on this page.
With the release of Waves V13, we announce full support with Apple Silicon processors for the following host applications. In addition, we announce full official Apple Silicon support for V13 SoundGrid applications.
This page will help you determine if your system specifications meet the requirements to run various versions of Waves plugins, Waves Central, and Waves applications.
If you experience unusually high CPU consumption from Waves Plugins V14 and above while using a non-Intel CPU and Windows, learn how to enable MKL optimization to improve CPU performance.
Learn how to update your Waves plugin licenses and software to latest version available, whether for perpetual licenses or Waves Creative Access subscriptions.
Are you seeing blank GUIs of Waves plugins or applications (V12 and up) after installing the latest version on your Mac? Follow these steps to roll back to an earlier version that does not require ‘Metal’ support and will display properly.
If you inadvertently installed a plugin version that cannot run on your operating system or host application and wish to roll back to V13 plugins, follow these instructions.
If you inadvertently installed a plugin version that cannot run on your operating system or host application and need to roll back to V12 plugins, follow these instructions.
If you inadvertently installed a plugin version that cannot run on your operating system or host application and need to roll back to V11 plugins, follow these instructions.
If you inadvertently installed a plugin version that cannot run on your operating system or host application and need to roll back to V10 plugins, follow these instructions.
If you inadvertently installed a newer plugin version that cannot run on your operating system or host application and wish to roll back to V9.92 plugins, follow these instructions.
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