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Release Notes
The new Primary Source Expander available separately as well as in Mercury, Pro
Show and SD7 Pro Show.
IR-1, IR-L, IR-360, IRLive: Significantly improved CPU consumption on SoundGrid
(x2.5 on average).
Abbey Road Plates: Clicking with the mouse on control scale marks now works
well.
Abbey Road Plates: Fixed minor initialization issue when toggling between
plates.
CLA Bass, CLA Drums, CLA Effects, CLA Guitars, CLA Unplugged, CLA Vocals: Added
control mapping for Avid S6 control surface.
CLA Guitars: Fixed sound initialization issue.
Maserati VX1: Fixed sound initialization issue.
EMO-Q4, EMO-F2, EMO-D5: Fine-tuning plugin controls (by clicking CTRL/CMD) now
works on all controls.
EMO-D5: Improved smoothing of sound changes while adjusting controls and during
automation.
Greg Wells MixCentric, Greg Wells PianoCentric, Scheps Parallel Particles,
IMPusher: Fixed unwanted small fade-in at the beginning of the audio in Logic Pro
X.
Greg Wells ToneCentric: Various minor bug fixes.
Greg Wells ToneCentric: Smoother sound changes while adjusting controls and
during automation.
MaxxVolume, MV2 and OneKnob Louder: Smoother sound changes while adjusting
controls and during automation.
NLS Non-Linear Summer: Improved smoothing of sound changes while adjusting
controls and during automation.
REDD: Channel selector now works properly.
Renaissance Equalizer: Minor graphic fix.
UM225 / UM226: Fixed meters display issue in the Hot Plugins panel on MultiRack.
Waves Tune Real-Time: Scale and Root are now automatable.
The new Abbey Road Vinyl plugin is available separately as well in the Abbey
Road Collection.
Waves plugins and applications, both Native and SoundGrid, are now fully
compatible with Mac OS X Sierra 10.12. If you are using a VST-compatible DAW,
please reinstall your Waves plugins and software applications using Waves Central.
The new Greg Wells ToneCentric available separately as well as in Mercury, Pro
Show, SD7 Pro Show and Greg Wells Signature Series.
SoundGrid Server:
Support for lower network buffer on RealTek NIC equipped servers: 40
samples@44.1/48kHz, 80 samples@88.2/96kHz
Support for Waves Tune Real-Time MIDI
Bug fixes
Performance Improvement
The new DMI Waves for DiGiCo Orange Box and S series consoles is available.
The new M-DL-WAVES3 is available for Allen & Heath dLive consoles.
August 30th, 2016
The new Waves Tune Real-Time plugin is available separately as well in the
Mercury, Pro Show, and SD7 Pro Show.
Infected Mushroom Pusher: Minor automation and labeling fixes.
MultiRack SoundGrid 9.80 for DiGiCo: compatible with SD running Core 2 only,
console version 821.
MultiRack SoundGrid 9.80 for DiGiCo: Surround support including up-mix and down-
mix.
MultiRack SoundGrid 9.80 for DiGiCo: New Global Tempo, synchronizing all tempo-
based plugins to the same BPM.
MultiRack SoundGrid 9.80 for DiGiCo: Flexible Rack configuration.
MultiRack SoundGrid 9.80 for DiGiCo added plugins: Infected Mushroom Pusher,
Scheps Parallel Particles, DTS Neural� Mono2Stereo, DTS Neural� Surround DownMix,
DTS Neural� Surround UpMix, X-FDBK, BSS DPR-402, Greg Wells MixCentric, Greg Wells
VoiceCentric, Greg Wells PianoCentric, eMo D5 Dynamics, eMo Q4 Equalizer, eMo F2
Filter, eMo Generator, Sub Align.
The new DTS Neural Mono2Stereo available in the DTS Neural Surround Collection
and in the Broadcast and Surround Suite.
The new DTS Neural Surround DownMix available in the DTS Neural Surround
Collection and in the Broadcast and Surround Suite.
The new DTS Neural Surround UpMix available in the DTS Neural Surround
Collection and in the Broadcast and Surround Suite.
MultiRack: Removed the plugin manager. MultiRack now loads all plugin versions
it finds.
MultiRack: New Global Tempo, synchronizing all tempo-based plugins to the same
BPM.
MultiRack: Bug fixes.
MultiRack SoundGrid version 9.80.11.99 is compatible with Lawo consoles version
5-6-0-16 and higher.
Abbey Road Reverb Plates: Fixed possible mutes in VST3 hosts.
Nx no longer prevents Ableton Live and SONAR to properly save sessions.
Fixed possible crashes under Logic Pro X.
X-FDBK: Fixed a crash when deleting a filter if the SoundGrid server is not
connected.
X-FDBK: Fixed a problem where loading a session in SoundGrid applications would
load the X-FDBK preset without markers and cursor.
X-FDBK: Fixed a minor GUI related issue.
The new X-FDBK available separately as well as in Mercury, Pro Show and SD7 Pro
Show.
Abbey Road Reverb Plates: Fixed an issue where loading certain presets would
reset the Dry/Wet control to 100%.
H-Delay: Fixed possible clicks at 96kHz in mono to stereo.
eMotion LV1: bug fixes
The new Abbey Road Reverb Plates available separately as well as in the Abbey
Road Collection.
Maserati B72: The Sensitivity LED now works properly.
Renaissance Equalizer: Double-clicking band markers on the graph now turns the
bands on or off.
Renaissance Channel: Double-clicking band markers on the graph now turns the
bands on or off.
Scheps 73: Fixed MS functionality.
eMo Generator: Changing Gain in Sine mode no longer causes clicks.
SSL Compressor: Improved smoothing of sound changes while adjusting controls
and during automation.
H-Reverb: Improved native CPU consumption on Mac.
H-Reverb: Fixed right channel input meter on control surfaces.
Fixed possible crashes on Windows systems with NVIDIA Quadro graphic cards.
The new Greg Wells MixCentric available separately as well as in Mercury, Pro
Show, SD7 Pro Show and the new Greg Wells Signature Series.
The new Greg Wells Signature Series containing VoiceCentric, PianoCentric and
MixCentric.
eMo Q4 Equalizer: Changing band 4 filter type no longer causes the output gain
to be bypassed.
eMo F2 Filter: Loading a mono preset to a stereo component now loads the preset
to both left and right channels.
eMo Generator: Changed VST3 category to Generators.
H-Reverb: Fixed surround output metering on the Hot Plugins Panel in MultiRack.
Vocal Rider, MondoMod: Fixed crash in LV1 and MultiRack when disconnecting the
host LAN port.
ReelADT now initializes with correct VCO value under Logic Pro X.
GTR, GTR Solo, Element and CODEX applications now recognize the built-in audio
device in OS X Yosemite and El Capitan.
Sony Vegas, Sound Forge and Acid Pro: Fixed possible crashes with mono plugins
that have side-chain.
StudioRack: Fixed first instance long instantiation time.
LV1 no longer crashes when modifying presets in GTR Tool Rack.
The new Greg Wells PianoCentric available separately as well as in Mercury, Pro
Show and SD7 Pro Show.
MultiRack: Remote control support for LAWO consoles.
The new Element 2.0 available separately as well as in Mercury and Dave Aude
EMP Toolbox.
SSL Compressor: Smoother sound changes while adjusting controls and during
automation.
S1: Smoother sound changes while adjusting controls and during automation.
Manny Marroquin Tone Shaper: 1-2-3 frequency knobs now work properly.
SoundShifter: Offline processing components no longer appear in real-time
menus.
Ableton Live 32bit (Mac): Using arrow keys to modify plugin parameters is now
working.
Sub Align: Mono component now applies the correct delay value.
Sub Align: Fixed wrong delay at 96kHz.
Sub Align: Improved crossover points precision.
Fixed Pro Tools crash with StudioRack containing NLS.
MIDI attachment is now properly saved in presets.
Codex, Element, MetaFilter: Automation compatibility with earlier versions is
restored.
SSL Compressor: PA default preset now turns off analog noise.
Central: Added dialog message notifying users to close all running DAWs when
installing and uninstalling...
Central: Added device ID display in Disconnected Devices panel.
Central: Added "Move All" option under My Products in the Install Products,
Manage Licenses and Prepare Offline Installer pages.
Central: When the system drive name contains inadmissible characters, Waves
Central names it "Untitled" and allows using the drive.
Central: When the license cloud contains no licenses, a message is displayed in
the middle column of the Easy Install and Activate page.
Central: When no connected devices are found, the dialog can be closed and
Waves Central can be used for offline installation.
Central: Drive letter now retrieved via environment variable. Installation will
proceed properly even when the system drive letter is not C:\.
Central: Products in the Install Products page can now be selected or de-
selected by clicking the product name, not just the adjacent arrows.
Central: Various other fixes and improvements.
H-EQ: Input faders are no longer flipped in M/S mode.
H-EQ: M/S monitor now functions properly.
Greg Wells VoiceCentric, Cobalt Saphira, Butch Vig Vocals, all Manny Marroquin
plugins: Fixed slow loading time.
InPhase: Fixed graphic issues when collapsing/expanding the GUI.
The new Greg Wells VoiceCentric available separately as well as in Mercury, Pro
Show and SD7 Pro Show.
New Waves Central version contains several fixes for failed installations.
The new Waves Central: one-stop plugin installation and activation system.
Across the board release of all Waves plugins V9.6.
Sidechain support for VST 2.4.
New Copy/Paste preset feature � between plugins and/or StudioRack.
Fixes to various activation related bugs.
The new eMo D5 Dynamics available separately as well as in Mercury, Pro Show
and SD7 Pro Show.
The new Cobalt Saphira available separately as well as in Mercury, Pro Show and
SD7 Pro Show.
Butch Vig Vocals: Sensitivity LED now properly responds to signals from both
left and right channels.
Doppler no longer crashes in AudioSuite while processing 4 mono tracks.
Reel ADT: VCO movement now stays limited to VCO range when using the mouse
wheel or arrow keys.
GTR: Fixed microphone selection mismatch in some cabinets.
Stomp Distortion: Fixed an issue where Tone and Contour may stop working in
some cases.
H-Delay: Note division and MS is now properly saved in MultiRack SoundGrid
snapshots when using tap tempo.
IR-1, IR-L, IRLive: Fixed IR locating issue under MultiRack after changing the
name of the folder containing imported IRs.
MetaFilter: Fixed LFO sync issue in Cubase/Nuendo.
SoundShifter Pitch: Fixed latency issue under AudioSuite when shifting down.
SoundShifter Pitch no longer creates a fade in on the first region when
processing several regions under AudioSuite.
TG12345: Switching presets now advances properly (within each category) instead
of in alphabetical order.
Waves Tune, Waves Tune LT: Fixed possible crash in offline processing.
Waves Tune, Waves Tune LT: Copy/Paste Notes was removed from the menu.
X-Crackle: Fixed processing at 96kHz on SoundGrid.
NLS: Drive no longer affects the noise level.
Scheps 73: GUI expand/collapse state is now properly saved in sessions.
Final Cut Pro: Fixed GUI corruption when plugins are instantiated during
playback.
Cubase/Nuendo: Fixed possible crashes on Mac when closing and reopening
sessions.
Cubase: Plugins with Noise no longer crash when inserted in instrument tracks.
Pro Tools 11 & 12: Fixed various issues with resetting (Alt+Click) controls.
Waves V9r28 installer - June 3rd, 2015
Mac: Fixed a problem where WaveShell-AAX may fail to load and is declared as an
invalid AAX plugin.
Windows: Fixed mute with dbx-160 on SoundGrid when updated from previous
versions.
The new H-Reverb available separately as well as in Mercury, Pro Show and SD7
Pro Show.
Butch Vig Vocals now SoundGrid-compatible.
Butch Vig Vocals: In/Out VU meters now properly represent L & R channels.
Butch Vig Vocals: Fixed crash in a session with some 3rd party plugins.
dbx 160: Closing the plugin GUI and reopening it no longer causes the preset
name to change to "Preset A".
dbx 160: Added support for AVID S3 and S6 control surfaces.
dbx 160: Fixed hum noise frequency in stereo component to 50Hz instead of
100Hz.
GTR ToolRack: Added external meters when inserted into StudioRack.
GTR Solo now excluded from SoundGrid hosts.
InPhase now added to SoundGrid hosts.
IR-1, IR-L, IR360, IR-Live: Importing an IR from a long path now properly saved
in the session.
Manny Marroquin Plugins: Fixed a possible crash of the SoundGrid server.
MetaFilter: Step Count no longer missing from the Automation List in Pro Tools
and Smooth no longer appears twice.
Renaissance Bass: Added external meters when inserted into StudioRack mono.
Vitamin: Fixed missing right channel external meter when inserted into
StudioRack.
X-Crackle: Fixed processing at 96kHz.
VST2.4: Added support for real-world values in automation lanes.
Fixed various possible crashes and graphical problems in plugins with resizable
GUIs.
Fixed a problem where WaveShell-AAX may fail to load and is declared as an
invalid AAX plugin.
Fixed an issue where on Mac Yosemite the 'Save Preset' window will remain open
after clicking OK.
The new Butch Vig Vocals available separately as well as in Mercury, Pro Show
and SD7 Pro Show.
The new OneKnob Pumper available separately as well as in Mercury and OneKnob
Series.
GTR3 Amp: microphones selection bug fixed.
IR Convolution Reverb Series: better CPU distribution for multiple instances on
SoundGrid servers.
NLS Non-Linear Summer Channel: VCA knob now responds well.
NLS Non-Linear Summer: no longer crashes host when VCA group is modified.
NLS Non-Linear Summer: no longer crashes MultiRack SoundGrid when changing
snapshots on VCA tab.
NLS Non-Linear Summer: GUI no longer blinks when changing the VCA group inside
chainers.
WLM Plus Loudness Meter: Short and Long meters mode no longer changes to LEQ(m)
after GUI collapsing.
WLM Plus Loudness Meter: Trim now works properly with LU in Momentary Scan.
WLM Plus Loudness Meter: Gain Reduction meter no longer displays full gain
attenuation after collapsing the GUI.
WLM Plus Loudness Meter: no longer crashes MultiRack SoundGrid when changing
snapshot after collapsing the GUI.
Codex & Element: arpeggiator no longer gets stuck and receives note off in Pro
Tools.
EMI TG12345 Channel Strip: fixed wrong indication on the left VU Gain
Reduction.
WaveShell AAX preferences window restored.
Windows only: fixed blank GUI issue in several plugins with Intel HD2000/3000
cards.
Mac only: fixed single-click text entry bug.
The new EMI TG12345 available separately as well as in The Abbey Road
Collection.
The new Codex Wavetable Synth available separately as well as in Mercury.
J37 Tape: minor GUI fix.
Element no longer gets stuck on a certain preset while toggling presets
quickly.
V-EQ4: minor GUI fix.
V-EQ4: HF cutoff 3.3kHz at 44.1 kHz bug fixed.
Windows: inserting more than 32 instances with Intel HD graphic card no longer
causes blank GUIs or crashes.
The new WLM Plus Loudness Meter available separately as well as in Mercury,
Diamond, Broadcast & Production, SoundGrid Pro and SoundGrid SD7 Pro.
The new Scheps 73 available separately as well as in Mercury, SoundGrid Pro and
SoundGrid SD7 Pro.
Added support for Media Composer 7.0.3 on Mac.
Added support for WaveLab 8.0.3 on Mac.
Fixed graphic corruption in Logic X for several plugins.
Manny Marroquin Distortion & Manny Marroquin Triple D: fixed sound
compatibility between mono and stereo components.
Fixed various graphic issues and crashes on Mac and Windows 8 64bit.
Support for Mac OS 10.8.4
Support for Logic X (up to 10.0.1)
IR Convolution Reverbs on Windows can now import Sweep/Impulse response from
file that is located on a different drive.
IR Convolution Reverbs no longer lose presets or impulse files upon re-
instantiation.
Doppler added 96khz Native support.
The new GEQ Graphic Equalizer available separately, and in Mercury, SoundGrid
Pro and SoundGrid SD7 Pro.
Cubase: fixed possible crash during plugin scan.
WaveLab 7 on Windows: fixed issue of plugins appearing twice on the menu.
The new IR-Live plugin available separately, in Mercury, and in SoundGrid Pro,
Prelude & Essentials bundles.
WaveShell VST2 on Mac 64-bit support.
The new Element plugin and application available separately and in Mercury.
GTR & GTR Solo applications fixed memory corruption that could cause a crash.
Waves License Center missing fonts issue solved.
The new NS1 Noise Suppressor available separately and in Mercury and SoundGrid
Pro bundles.
PS22 Stereo Maker added to Waves Live and SoundGrid Essentials bundles.
SoundGrid for A&H: firmware update resolving buzz on I/O box channels 55/56.
First V9 release