David Polich wrote:So sorry to hear about people having problems with Waves plugs. I'm having none, maybe I just got a "decent batch". I agree with the post about VE Pro...I bought it, used it for about a month, then took it off my system. Too much of a PITA to set up.
I did notice a number of posts about problems in conjunction with El Crapitan (sorry, El "Capitan").
I'm still on Yosemite, no plans to go to El Crap. It's an "in-between" O.S. as far as I'm concerned..I believe that Yosemite fixed what was broken in Mavericks, Mountain Lion fixed what sucked in Lion, Snow Leopard fixed Leopard, etc. So the next O.S. ("Shasta"?) will likely be the "working" version of El Capitan.
When any member here states they are having “no problems” with Waves plug ins, it is important that they indicate or understand that they must be using the Waves plug ins fully, meaning full snap shot automation, copy and paste into plug ins on the fly with automation and before snap shots, regular automation, mute automation etc. In addition, it is proven that Waves numerology is incorrect in the SE window, meaning that if an EQ shows 5.3 hz, the number will be some whacky # in the SE window.
So again, utilize snap shot automation FULLY; utilize copy and paste automation FULLY. Load a waves pre set into the plug in and make a snap shot and watch it NOT keep those settings. I have verified these issues with numerous users and Waves.
I have yet to truly here ONE member here utilize Waves with the aforementioned requirements successfully and would argue that your Waves is NOT working properly.
Of course, if you’d like to bring up an EQ, set it and forget it, well, yes, that works. If you’d like to automate the EQ after that by going into record automate mode and then grab a parameter and have it play back, yes, that works. But those are only a few aspects of the overall features available. And, in addition to waves, try copy and paste automate and snap shot with other 3rd party plugs and you will see the same problems, sometimes consistently, sometimes not.
But for the egg heads at MOTU that seem continually lost at fixing these problems, it is important one does not report “no problems” without a thorough tour through all features of automation.