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- Download Waves Ultimate 15 11.06.24 [Intel/Apple] [TNT]
- Original Publisher: Waves
- Version: 11.06.24
- Format: VST, VST3, AAX. AU, Standalone
- Category: VST Plugins
- Require: OS version: 12.0+
- License type: Full
- Download Size: 7.68 GB
Don’t bother: MacOs Ventura. M1 iMac (both listed as compatible on the Waves site)
Instructions are rubbish: “5: Browse the Data folder 6: Select “Waves Ultimate” (your choice).
Data folder contents have nothing to do with selecting which plugs to install. (all greyed out with a line through them).
If you open “install.cen” from the Extras folder, pick: ” Offline installer”, select one of the plugs and
install you will get “blah blah contact tech support”.
If installed from the Terminal nothing changes.
If you unzip the Data folder in the Extra folder and drag that Directory and the rest of the files to your Applications Folder/Waves and run the install.cen from there you can pick one of the plugs and it will install. Wow.
After running the WavesLicenseEngine patch, replacing files and rebooting you would expect to be done,.. sigh,
If you open Logic your Waves plug will run in Demo mode. If you click “Activate” nothing will happen because you are offline. There is no challenge and response. If you click: “Copy” from the activation window, open the companion TnT file and run the dumfuk windows crack under Crossover and paste the name of your plug into it will generate a file with a *.wle extension. If you copy this per instruction to “Licenses” you would expect to be done- but nope. Still in Demo.
If you run Waves Central for the 30th time, go to Licenses and click Not Activated or whatever it’s called it will return the name of you hard drive.
At that point the Offline Installer is no longer accessible- nor is the license option. Now Waves Central is also missing from your Applications folder. Then you can start resetting permissions and reinstalling and going in circles in an endless loop. Back to the drawing board. There’s really no point in cracking something if you can’t write simple instructions, right?
The instructions should have been like this:
0. Turn internet off, make your computer offline.
1. Open Run Gatekeeper
1a.Install Waves Central.app
1b. Run Waves Central with Root if your installation is stuck by pasting the following code in terminal (Waves Central will open as root after typing your password)
Terminal Code:
sudo /Applications/Waves\ Central.app/Contents/MacOS/Waves\ Central
2. Unzip Data from Extra folder
3.Uninstall previous versions and run Fix Permissions from Waves Central Settings (Backup Presets and other data if needed). DO NOT Login to Waves (If you want Studio Verse).
4. Select Offline Installer and Click Install from an Offline Installer
5. Browse the Data folder in Extra
6. Select your hard drive (Macintosh HD) and install all plugins.
7. Browse to Desktop/Data folder and install Waves License Engine (looks like a yellow box)
8. Reboot
9. Run AU reg Utility 15 from Applications/Waves
10. Move StudioVerse Audio Effects and StudioVerse instruments out of Applications/Waves/Plugins v15 folder. DO NOT use them at all.
Sample Libraries for Waves Instruments
https://www.waves.com/downloads/sample-libraries
Apologies: I’m guessing this is a second language issue. Maybe a MacOs as a second language issue too.
Step 5:
You are using the word “Data” but you really mean, “Extra”.
The install app is in the “Extra” folder- NOT the Data folder. It is called: “install.cen”. This opens and I’m guessing I’m to pick “offline installer” so I do. This opens a new finder window and I go back to the Extra folder and pick “install.cen” once again. Now we are looking at something hopeful. A few more stumbles and my system drive is named and hundreds of plugs I don’t need are presented. I scroll to the very bottom of the screen and pick. “Waves Ultimate”. A few cups of tea later. I get “successfully installed”.
Also: AU reg utility is NOT in Application/Waves. It is in Application/Waves/WaveShells V15- details matter.
I follow the rest of the outline.
I remove the files as per your second set of instructions.
From this point forward thing go no differently.
Logic show a whole screen of plugs under Waves. All the plugs are in Demo Mode. Clicking “Activate Licenses” now brings up the Waves Central to “Licenses” with a bland screen showing Not Activated. Clicking around does nothing. Thanks anyway.
I really just wanted the C1 and the IRreverb not a zillion things I’ll never use. I miss Radium,..
Yes, I should have been more accurate. My apologies for that. Here’s the last bit of the missing information from me: I get these to work ONLY when I run Logic 10 using Rosetta. This does NOT work using Logic version 11 running natively for M1. Unfortunately so.
For the record, I don’t scroll down and select only “Waves Ultimate”, but instead I click “Macintosh HD” at the top even though the instructions tell me not to do so. That works for me with Logic 10 running Rosetta.
Update: Cheers for helping out!
Working under MacOs Ventura 13.5 / MacBook Air M2 / Logic 11.1, Logic 10.9, Logic 10.8
As stated: Logic must be started under Rosetta. (From Applications, highlight Logic: Command letter i and tick Rosetta). Plugs load and run as expected with no nonsense. I just picked a few, I didn’t load all 725.
Working under MacOs Monterey 12.6 / MacBook Air 13″ 2017 (Intel) Logic 10.7.9
Not working under Sonoma. Install not working properly and all plugs load in Demo if you get that far.
Ableton 11 loads plugs as Demo. If started under Rosetta, Ableton asks you to register your product.
Haven’t tried Ableton 12 yet.
working on pro tools 12?
thx for the answer