Q: El Capitan 10.11 Compatibility information - Important.

When I installed the update for OS X.10 and updated my WAVES plug-ins, I got some duplicate plug-ins installed into Logic that don't validate and are generally useless, because they are duplicate plug-ins. Is there any way to remove these (WAVE) plug-ins somewhere on the Hard Drive?

OS X 10.11.1 upgrade fixes the AU validation process.  All my NI and iZotope and other stuff works.  I did have to reset and rescan via the AU Manager, but it works now.

Unfortunately for myself, the update does not see any of the WAVES plugins I have installed. They cannot be opened in Logic Pro X. All my other plug-ins are working normally, only the WAVES are no longer validating. BUMMER!!

Hi, Muzicman.

There is a waves plugins folder in the Applications folder.

The components, the part of the plugin that actually runs the plugin, are located Mac Hd>library>Audio> components. If you open this folder you will see a .component file for each plugin. Waves is called WaveShell-AU with a number say 9.3 or 9.61. Look in that folder and see if there are duplicates.

also make sure that you have the latest version of Waves 9.30 on their web site.

Also be aware that waves does not yet work on El Capitan

hope this helps,

regards,

Scorpii

And you tried resetting/rescanning in the AU manager?

Well, I know several users who've had issues with WAVE plugins before EC ever came along.  Based on past issues with them, I avoid them.

Probably a good idea to avoid WAVES plug-ins. I hate companies that don't adopt their software to new Operating Systems in a timely manner. In my case I will probably try reinstalling my OS 10 - Yosemite after wiping my El Capitan drive. Then, I'll see if I can get my plug-ins to work, again after updating to OS 10.11.1, with everything in place and working.

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Hi, Art.

I just received an email from Arturia stating that all their plugins are now compatible with El Capitan.

Waves also have a message on their web site stating that "Compatibility with OS X 10.11 has been tested and confirmed."

You may already have this info. If not, please add to your list and thank you for taking the time to help the community with this.

regards,

Scorpii

So, I spent last weekend wiping my HD and installing my back-up OS Yosemite and carefully updating to OS 10.11.1 (El Capitan). Noting to myself, "don't touch or breath on the WAVES plug-ins and maybe they will continue to work." Every other plug-in I have from many different software companies are working just fine in El Captian. WAVES is the problem child. Nice to know they are compatible, because I've wasted a great deal of time to make them compatible. Then I saw where they had a NEW and supposedly IMPROVED Waves Central app. When I installed it and got the message:

Thank you WAVES for being such a reasonably priced and dependable software product for digital editing and recording.

Muzicman.

Waves Central is a new version of the Waves Licence Centre. The registration tool used to authorise Waves plugin licences.

If you have backups, then restore wlc (your latest version) and that should allow a licence transfer to your machine. Alternatively, put your waves licences onto a usb stick via wlc and then they will be valid for any machine you use, and multiple partitions on that machine.

I've gone the usb route and the Waves licences are recognised by either 10.8.5 or Yosemite. (Although I think Yosemite is somewhat dodgy)

Hope this helps,

regards,

Scorpii

Update to 10.11.1 fixes the problem. You may need to rescan audio units manually to have the Massive plugin work properly. Click Logic Preferences/Plug-in Manager. Select Native Instruments down the left. Click 'use' for massive. Then it works (in my case.)

Hey Muzicman this is just a Gatekeeper issue.

Set your Security & Privacy > general preferences to Allow downloads from anywhere and Waves Central will open and work.

(I'm not on a Mac right now so some of the wording may not be precise but you should get the idea)

cheers

Hi Nigel

Is it your belief that iZotope RX5 is not working with 10.11.1 ??

regards

Murray

WAVES will not allow the older wlc to work. I got the Waves Central to work and it destroyed all my old WAVES 9.3 plug-ins. So, I basically have no other choice than to pay $500 to upgrade my older plugins to 9.6. This is exactly what these kind of companies do to their clients. We have a new control center, so your old licenses are NO good!!

Once again, thank you WAVES for a crappy system and a lousy deal for anyone that buys your products.

Unbelievable!!