Waves – Ultimate v2024.12.18 for Windows

Version: 2024.12.18
Developer: Waves
Developer’s website: waves.com
Format: VST3, AAX
Bit depth: 64bit
Tablet: Cured
System requirements: Win 10+
Size: 8.45 GB

All 230+ Waves plugins. Create with complete freedom, everything is always at hand. Let nothing stand between the sound you hear in your head and what comes out of the speakers. Waves Ultimate is the largest plugin package with which you get everything you need.

All popular Waves plugins for vocals. All analog models, from Abbey Road to SSL. All Waves plugins for mastering. All compressors, all equalizers, all effects, instruments, saturation plugins, artist signature plugins, channel strips, AI-powered noise reduction. Waves Ultimate offers the most complete set of professional audio plugins anywhere.

 R2R Note
• 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

Uninstall/CleanupIf this is your first Waves installation, 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.

Clean the paths:

• Your VST2, VST3, AAX plugins 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, find “WaveShell*” on your C drive, then delete everything.
=> We always see people having issues with old wrappers that should be removed before doing this.

Clean registry:
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Waves\

Install Runtime

If you use SoundGrid, install/update SoundGrid drivers.
Google “Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable”, download from Microsoft 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 updated, a full rescan is recommended.
If you use sample-based instruments, find the instruments path from the app 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 the background servers are not working correctly, 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 exits without a license error
• Some plugins like KeyDetector, Waves Gemstones cause license error

Run the included “R2R_Kill_Waves_Background_Process.cmd”.
Run these EXE files manually.

• “%PROGRAMDATA%\Waves Audio\WavesLocalServer\WavesLocalServer.bundle\Contents\Win64\WavesLocalServer.exe”
• “%PROGRAMDATA%\Waves Audio\WavesPluginServer\WavesPluginServerV15.1.bundle\Contents\Win64\WavesPluginServer.exe”

After that, rescan the plugin.

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