How to Use Waves Plugins when Using a Custom VST or VST3 Folder
Mar 26, 2022
Learn how to use Waves plugins if you use a custom VST or VST3 plugins folder.
All Waves plugins are installed to a folder named "Plug-Ins V14" (or whichever version is installed on your device), which is inside the Waves folder, located on your system hard drive. These files should not be moved.
Instead, a WaveShell is placed in your host application's plugins folder. The WaveShell connects your host application to the plugins as a software gateway.
Important Note! Waves plugins are no longer officially supported as VST2 in any of our Supported Hosts We highly recommend using VST3 plugins in new sessions from now on, and migrating plugins in old sessions to VST3.
Default locations
During installation, the WaveShell is placed in these default locations:
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