Waves Ultimate

Waves Ultimate Overview

More than 230 plugins from Waves. Create with complete freedom: everything is always at your fingertips.
Let nothing stand between the sound you hear in your head and what comes out of the speakers.
With Waves Ultimate—the largest option in our Waves Creative Access subscription—you get all the plugins you need, when you need them.

Waves Ultimate Features

All popular Waves vocal plugins. All analog models, from Abbey Road to SSL. All Waves mastering plugins.
All the compressors, all the EQs, all the effects, instruments, saturation plugins, artist signature plugins, channel strips, AI noise reduction… just everything.
Waves Ultimate offers the most comprehensive set of professional quality audio plugins.

Installation

If you already have an older version of Waves Ultimate from R2R installed
, this release can be installed over it.

You will also need to replace the old WaveShell files with the new ones.

Uninstall/Clean

If this is your first installation of Waves, skip this step.

Run the included “R2R_Kill_Waves_Background_Process.cmd”.
Make sure COSMOS.exe, WavesLocalServer.exe, WavesPluginServer.exe are not running.
Uninstall the previous release.
Uninstall Waves Central.

Clear paths:

• Your VST2, VST3, AAX plugin directory
• C:Program Files (x86)Waves
• %PROGRAMFILES%Waves Central
• %PROGRAMDATA%Waves Audio
• %APPDATA%COSMOS
• %APPDATA%Waves Audio
• %LOCALAPPDATA%Waves Audio
• %PUBLIC%Waves Audio

=> If you think you have no experience, please find “WaveShell*” in C drive, then delete all.

=> We always see people having problems with old shells that need to be removed first.

Clear registry:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWOW6432NodeWaves

Install Runtime

If you are using SoundGrid, install/update SoundGrid drivers.

Google “Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable”, download from Microsoft website and install/update:
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable 2015-2022 x64
Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime (used by recent web plugins)

Install Waves

Unzip our installer, run and install.
Scan or rescan plugins from your DAW.
If you have updated, it is recommended to do a full rescan.

If you are using sample-based instruments,
find the instruments path from the application launcher or GUI.

Sample library releases
(most of them can now also be downloaded from the official Waves website):

• Waves.Bass.Fingers.Library.HD.v1.0-R2R
• Waves.Bass.Fingers.Library.SD.v1.0-R2R
• Waves.Bass.Slapper.Library.HAPPY.NEW.YEAR-R2R
• Waves .Clavinet.Library-R2R
• Waves.Electric.88.Library-R2R
• Waves.Electric.200.Library-R2R
• Waves.Electric.G80.Library-R2R
• Waves.Grand.Rhapsody.Library.HD.v1.0-R2R
• Waves.Grand.Rhapsody.Library.SD.v1.0- R2R
• Waves.Sample.Libraries.Factory.Pack.v1.0.3.5-R2R (CR8 Sampler requests this)

Restarting Waves background servers

This is useful when a background process is doing something wrong.

When background servers are not working properly, the following problem occurs.

• Scanning for plugins fails (WaveShells returns 0 plugins)
• Preset Browser does not work
• COSMOS (also in CR8 Sampler Browser) does not start or crashes without a license error
• Some plugins like KeyDetector, Waves Gemstones cause a license error

Run the included “R2R_Kill_Waves_Background_Process.cmd”.

Run these EXE files manually.

• “%PROGRAMDATA%Waves AudioWavesLocalServerWavesLocalServer.bundleContentsWin64WavesLocalServer.exe” • “%PROGRAMDATA %Waves AudioWavesPluginServerWavesPluginServerV15.1.bundleContentsWin64 WavesPluginServer.exe”

After that, rescan the plugin.

Notes

• No Waves Central installation or account login required.
• Waves Central installation/uninstallation is simplified and much faster.
• Instrument libraries are not included. Check out our other releases.
• Our emulation technology is much faster and more resource efficient.

Please read R2R.txt before installation

File Information

Year/Release Date : 2024
Version : 2024.11.29
Developer : Waves
Developer’s website : Waves
Format : SAL, VST, VST3, AAX Bit
depth : 64bit
Tablet : cured

System Requirements

Windows 10+