If you have a Waves Creative Access subscription license, but are required to install V10 software due to system compatibility, please download this V10 Offline Installer.
Please note – Use this installer only if you own a Waves Creative Access subscription license.
This installer does not include sample libraries, which can be downloaded here.
V10 Plugins can be activated by Waves Creative Access subscription licenses, as well as by perpetual (non-subscription) V15-V10 licenses.
Only plugins that are part of your Waves Creative Access subscription will show up in your DAW.
To check if a plugin exists in the V10 installer, scroll to the bottom of this page.
V10 is not supported on macOS Catalina (10.15) and above.
This installer does not include sample libraries, which can be downloaded here.
V10 Offline Installer includes:
Abbey Road Chambers
Abbey Road Reverb Plates
Abbey Road Studio 3
Abbey Road TG Mastering Chain
Abbey Road Vinyl
Aphex Vintage Aural Exciter
API 2500
API 550
API 560
AudioTrack
B360 Ambisonics Encoder
Bass Fingers
Bass Rider
Bass Slapper
Brauer Motion
BSS DPR-402
Butch Vig Vocals
C1 Compressor
C360 Surround Compressor
C4 Multiband Compressor
C6 Multiband Compressor
Center
CLA Bass
CLA Drums
CLA Effects
CLA Guitars
CLA MixDown
CLA MixHub
CLA Unplugged
CLA Vocals
CLA-2A Compressor / Limiter
CLA-3A Compressor / Limiter
CLA-76 Compressor / Limiter
Clavinet
Cobalt Saphira
Codex Wavetable Synth
dbx 160 Compressor / Limiter
DeBreath
DeEsser
Doppler
Dorrough Stereo
Dorrough Surround
Doubler
DTS Neural™ Mono2Stereo
DTS Neural™ Surround DownMix
DTS Neural™ Surround UpMix
Dugan Automixer
Dugan Speech
Eddie Kramer Bass Channel
Eddie Kramer Drum Channel
Eddie Kramer Effects Channel
Eddie Kramer Guitar Channel
Eddie Kramer Vocal Channel
Electric 200 Piano
Electric 88 Piano
Electric Grand 80 Piano
Element 2.0 Virtual Analog Synth
EMI TG12345 Channel Strip
eMo D5 Dynamics
eMo F2 Filter
eMo Generator
eMo Q4 Equalizer
Enigma
F6 Floating-Band Dynamic EQ
Flow Motion FM Synth
GEQ Graphic Equalizer
Grand Rhapsody Piano
Greg Wells MixCentric
Greg Wells PianoCentric
Greg Wells ToneCentric
Greg Wells VoiceCentric
GTR3 Amps
GTR3 Stomps
GTR3 ToolRack
GTR3 Tuner
GTR Solo
H-Comp Hybrid Compressor
H-Delay Hybrid Delay
H-EQ Hybrid Equalizer
H-Reverb Hybrid Reverb
IDR360 Bit Re-Quantizer
Infected Mushroom Pusher
InPhase
InPhase LT
IR1 Convolution Reverb
IR360 Convolution Reverb
IR-L Convolution Reverb
IR-Live Convolution Reverb
J37 Tape
JJP Bass
JJP Cymbals & Percussion
JJP Drums
JJP Guitars
JJP Strings & Keys
JJP Vocals
Kramer HLS Channel
Kramer Master Tape
Kramer PIE Compressor
L1 Ultramaximizer
L2 Ultramaximizer
L3 Multimaximizer
L3 Ultramaximizer
L3-16 Multimaximizer
L360 Surround Limiter
L3-LL Multimaximizer
L3-LL Ultramaximizer
LFE360 Low-Pass Filter
Linear Phase EQ
Linear Phase Multiband Compressor
LoAir
M360 Surround Manager & Mixdown
Manny Marroquin Delay
Manny Marroquin Distortion
Manny Marroquin EQ
Manny Marroquin Reverb
Manny Marroquin Tone Shaper
Manny Marroquin Triple D
Maserati ACG
Maserati B72
Maserati DRM
Maserati GRP
Maserati GTi
Maserati HMX
Maserati VX1
MaxxBass
MaxxVolume
MetaFilter
MetaFlanger
MondoMod
Morphoder
MV2
MV360
NLS Non-Linear Summer
NS1 Noise Suppressor
Nx – Virtual Mix Room over Headphones
OneKnob Brighter
OneKnob Driver
OneKnob Filter
OneKnob Louder
OneKnob Phatter
OneKnob Pressure
OneKnob Pumper
OneKnob Wetter
PAZ Analyzer
Primary Source Expander
PRS SuperModels
PS22 Stereo Maker
PuigChild Compressor
PuigTec EQs
Q10 Equalizer
Q-Clone
R360 Surround Reverb
REDD
Reel ADT
Renaissance Axx
Renaissance Bass
Renaissance Channel
Renaissance Compressor
Renaissance DeEsser
Renaissance Equalizer
Renaissance Reverb
Renaissance Vox
RS56 Passive EQ
S1 Stereo Imager
S360 Surround Imager & Panner
Scheps 73
Scheps Omni Channel
Scheps Parallel Particles
Sibilance
Smack Attack
SoundShifter
SSL E-Channel
SSL G-Channel
SSL G-Equalizer
SSL G-Master Buss Compressor
Sub Align
Submarine
SuperTap
The King's Microphones
Torque
TRACT
Trans-X
TrueVerb
UltraPitch
UM225 / UM226
V-Comp
V-EQ3
V-EQ4
Vitamin Sonic Enhancer
Vocal Rider
VU Meter
W43 Noise Reduction Plugin
Waves Tune
Waves Tune LT
Waves Tune Real-Time
WLM Plus Loudness Meter
WNS Noise Suppressor
X-Click
X-Crackle
X-FDBK
X-Hum
X-Noise
Z-Noise
*Waves Creative Access licenses do not cover DTS Neural™ plugins.
If you have a V10 perpetual (non-subscription) licenses or are required to install V10 due to system compatibility, please download this V10 Offline Installer.
Please note – Use this installer only if you own perpetual (non-subscription) licenses for single bundles and plugins.
On the system where your licenses are activated, follow these steps:
Download and unzip the LV1 V10 folder to your desktop.
In the folder Central_Offline_LV1_10.0.57.88, launch the file named “install.cen”.
Waves Central will open on the Offline Installer page.
From the list, select the products you wish to install.
Click Install.
Use the Waves Central application to get the latest version of eMotion LV1.
Waves applications (eMotion LV1, SoundGrid Studio, StudioRack) require activation to hard disk or USB flash drive. For complete activation instructions, click here.
When recording and playing back with the standalone SoundGrid driver, your Waves SoundGrid application (either SoundGrid Studio or MultiRack SoundGrid) must remain open at all times in order to configure the driver.
The offline installer for legacy versions of eMotion LV1 includes
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