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What’s New in V14
• New: Mix and Trim knobs have been added to our most popular compressors.
Get better dynamic control, fast, in API 2500, CLA-2A, CLA-3A, CLA-76, R-Comp and SSL G-Master Buss Compressor
• New: Faster loading.
Improved load times for plugins, presets and sessions in your DAW.
• New: Fast drag and drop preset workflow.
Load presets faster with new drag and drop workflow
• New: HiDPI graphics for some plugins.
Abbey Road TG Mastering, API Collection, CLA-2A, CLA-3A, CLA-76, F6, OVox and PuigTec equalizers now with ultra-sharp HiDPI GUI
• New: standalone app for Creative Sampler CR8.
Shape, manipulate and play your samples without a DAW
• New: Additional improvements.
• New presets, improvements and additional updates. For the full list of updates, see
Speed up your workflow with the new Mix and Trim knobs.
Tune your dynamics faster than ever with the new Trim and Mix knobs for the API 2500, CLA-2A, CLA-3A, CLA-76, R-Comp and SSL G-Master compressors. Now you can stay creative by quickly balancing the volume and creating parallel compression in seconds right from your plugin.
What’s new in v.17.01.23
New update: eMotion LV1 Live Mixer (64, 32 and 16 channels) is now available v14.9.80.170 with the following new features, updates and fixes. New: eMotion LV1 now supports multi-server DSP: add up to 4 wave SoundGrid servers and 4 more redundant servers for your LV1 system for virtually unlimited plug-in processing power.
New: eMotion LV1 now supports up to two Waves FIT controllers, up to 32+2 faders and encoders used in tandem on the same mix layer or independently on different mix layers.
New: Tactile plugin control with Waves FIT hardware controller with automatic plugin parameter mapping.
New: Highly visible design for the mixer’s connection bay. New: 8 additional custom keys for a total of 16. New: Delay groups are now part of Scope/RecallSafe.
New: Added “Purge/Keep Device Fixes” option when deleting a device.
New: Added a rack on/off switch in the channel window.
New: Added rack delay indication in the channel window.
New: Added a server selection menu in the channel window. New: “Copy from custom layer” option added to custom layer.
New: Added a server patch filter in the Internal Fixes tab to assign multiple servers.
New: Added a menu item to the “Channel” menu to configure the processing server.
New: Added Windows and Tempo filters to Scope/Recall Safe. Improved: “Mixer All” now displays channel names.
Fixed: On the settings screen, BPM can now be entered in text form.
Fixed: Cue channels no longer mute LR when the whole mixer is leveled.
Fixed: The output channel trim parameter is now mapped to the Touch and Turn encoder of the FIT controller. Improved: FIT controller encoder resolution optimized for better parameter control.
Fixed: Session notes are now saved correctly even if they are longer than 127 characters.
Fixed: New session does not reset phantom power and I/O gain settings.
Fixed: The “custom default” plugin preset can now be used in all plugins.
New update for MyFOH, MyMon and mRecall mobile apps:
Various bug fixes for all apps.
MyMon Application: Improved GUI layout. New in MyFOH:
New: eMo Q4 now has range type control.
New: Added control over Aux-Q when flipped.
New: Added channel colors set in eMotion LV1.
New update: SoundGrid Studio v14.9.0.566 is now available without new updates (only version number alignment).
New update: SoundGrid driver v14.9.56.146 is now available without new updates (only version number alignment).
New Update: Allen & Heath M-Waves V3 Card: Firmware update v14.12.33.324 (v1.17.37) is now available. Fixed: Bug causing audio artifacts
January 1, 2023
Waves Central v13.5.3 is now available with the following updates:
“My Cloud License Storage” indication changed to “Not Activated”.
License activation on exFAT formatted USB drives is now possible in macOS 13 (Ventura).
Improved speed and reliability of installation of demo libraries.
Various other fixes and improvements.
New update: exFAT-formatted USB licenses can now be used with macOS 13 (Ventura).
- Install and update Waves Central, uninstall previous versions and run Fix Permissions from Waves Central settings. (Backup presets and other data if necessary)
- Go to the 1-Installer folder, install Waves Central and run
- Select “Offline Installer” and click “Install from an Offline Installer”.
- Select the Waves folder (located inside the folder: 1- Installer).
- Choose your favorite plugins and install!
- Run Waves Complete 14.3 patch.exe from folder 2- Patch
- Reboot and enjoy
Works like a charm!
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Working! Had to follow the instructions again for uninstalling V14 plugins, run permission check, re-install all of the plugins below, then run the patch and removal of waves local server as stated, then reboot. I am on Windows 10, Studio One as my DAW.
Waves claims that Mercury will load most of the plugins listed but I found I had to install the list below to get everything I wanted. Your list may vary of course:
Abbey Road Collection
BB Tubes
Clarity VX Pro
GTR Solo
Inspire V14
Mercury
SSL 4000 Collection
Waves Harmony
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