osa Posted May 15, 2020 Report Share Posted May 15, 2020 Hello Post Folks, I recently bought some waves plugins and it had been a while. I was bummed to find out after purchase they dropped ilok. curious to know if anyone here might help me understand waves central in that i see a way that you might be able to put "assets" on a thumb drive and basically make a 2nd ilok to swap between computers? i already moved a plugin once from one computer to another and i didnt realize this might have been a mistake as it says i cant move it again for a year, if i understand correctly? I cant make sense of how this works for some reason. they have their own language about license asset management that is confusing me -Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Blankenship Posted May 16, 2020 Report Share Posted May 16, 2020 After changing computers and macOS versions my Waves would no longer work in Pro Tools, even though I was still using the iLok that authorized them. I discovered that now different vintages of Waves have different installs and they don't seem to like each other. I finally got the earlier Waves working, but after I tried to repair the install for the newer ones, then neither worked. I can only imagine how convoluted it would be to attempt to make them portable. I came up with what I consider a really good solution -- I deleted all Waves plugins and supporting Waves programs from my machine! My McDSP plugins are substantially better anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osa Posted May 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2020 2 hours ago, John Blankenship said: After changing computers and macOS versions my Waves would no longer work in Pro Tools ugh... i am reminded of complaining online about the waves update plan circa '03 "subscriptions are for magazines not sw" and now subscriptions are all the rage. thats a bummer about your plugins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Reineke Posted May 16, 2020 Report Share Posted May 16, 2020 I removed the Waves plug-ins from my PCs due to their 'forked up' activation. I am reading of significant issues with Waves V11 updates as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tourtelot Posted May 16, 2020 Report Share Posted May 16, 2020 Ugh! This whole circle-jerk among computer manufacturers, plug-in designers and DAWs has got to end! It is just a circular money grab and just SO uncool. D. PS. I think the "upgrade path" is for suckers. If you have a setup that works, don't mess with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osa Posted May 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2020 8 minutes ago, tourtelot said: Ugh! This whole circle-jerk among computer manufacturers, plug-in designers and DAWs has got to end! It is just a circular money grab and just SO uncool. D. PS. I think the "upgrade path" is for suckers. If you have a setup that works, don't mess with it. i do agree big time. i was on mac os 10.8 for what felt like 10 years and now i am on mojave with complete refusal to install catalina. jeez do they try hard to make you update it is a daily battle. i too stick with what works with white knuckles. so far these waves plugs in 10.14 are solid. i just want to be able to swap computers without waves locking me into "you cant move these assets for a year". i have a ticket into customer support and waiting for updates. i know i will screw this up on my own Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TVPostSound Posted May 16, 2020 Report Share Posted May 16, 2020 You can put Waves authorization on their "cloud", and use them on any computer one at a time, log into waves central, and authorize, then deauthorize. or save the authorization to a USB stick. (My method) https://www.waves.com/support/tag/waves-central Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osa Posted May 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 16, 2020 1 hour ago, TVPostSound said: You can put Waves authorization on their "cloud", and use them on any computer one at a time, log into waves central, and authorize, then deauthorize. or save the authorization to a USB stick. (My method) https://www.waves.com/support/tag/waves-central thank you i will check this out - the usb stick for sure. the authorizing and deauthorizing is what confuses me. 1x particular plugin i did this with i got a warning about not being able to do this again for a year. was i mistaken and this might apply to something else? i have a waves tech support ticket asking about this particular question above as well as what happens when usb stick becomes unreadable/lost/etc like a zero downtime type thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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