Learn how to update your Waves plugin licenses and software to latest version available, whether for perpetual licenses or Waves Creative Access subscriptions.
Learn how to assign Waves plugin controls to your MIDI controller or keyboard. Please note that Ableton Live officially supports Waves plugins V12 and upwards in VST3 only, with MIDI Learn disabled on the plugin GUI.
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 need to roll back to V11 plugins, follow these instructions.
If you have V12 licenses and V12.0 software installed on your system, you can update all your V12 plugins to the new 12.7 software version, free of charge. Find all instructions on this page.
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.
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