Guest post by Brandon S. Hire of The Noise Floor. Brandon recently went hell with getting his Waves VST3 plugins all into REAPER. He got through it and I asked him to share the experience to help others in the same situation. Any clues to solving problems like this are gold.

VST plugins won't show up in FL Studio 12 A common question but I'm trying to install some chiptune VSTs (e.g magical8bitplug etc.), but it won't show up in my plugin list. Did a scan and it detected them, however when I clicked on the checkbox and looked at the plugin list, it still wasn't there. To make a long story short, I noticed that about half of the Mercury bundle plugins weren’t showing up in VST3 format in REAPER. The same plugs would show up in VST and AU formats, which indicated that the plugins were in fact installed on the system. So I decided to clear the cache in the plugins preferences and rescan the plugins folder. If you do not see the 'VST Plug-ins' tab under the Locations tab, then you want to make sure that you have activated Studio One Professional or you have installed the VST, AU, and ReWire support add-on if you are running the 'Artist' version of Studio One. Checked there but no info. Anyway, I discovered that it is indeed 32 bit via task manager. I can’t load my Superior 64 bit in Cubase it seems. Spectrum analyser plugin vst. I have added the plugin info, updated, etc but it does not show up as an option under the VST instruments. Is this only because it is 64 bit? But for some reason FL Studio stopped recognizing any vst's in the folder. I tried copying one of the vst plugin dll files to the default vst plugin folder inside the FL installation at 'C: Program Files (x86) FL Studio 10 Plugins VST' and it loads without any problems from that folder. Plug-ins Aren’t Showing Up. There could be a number of reasons why your plug-ins aren’t showing up in FL Studio. It could be due to bad installation, the plug-in not being installed to the correct scan path, or it could simply be that it isn’t enabled within FL Studio. Plug-in download and installation.

Waves recently announced a new subscription plan which allows users to subscribe to their Silver and Mercury bundles. I decided to give this a try and download the Mercury Bundle. As a long time REAPER user and long time Waves user, I didn’t anticipate any problems.

To put it bluntly, I had problems. But the problems were neither the fault of Waves or of Cockos. The folks at Waves’ tech support team were awesome at helping me figure out the problem, and I want to document the issue here in case any of you are experiencing something similar.

Note that I’m not advising you to take these steps yourselves. If you’re having issues, there may be other factors that are causing your issues. Your best bet is to contact support at Waves or Cockos and see if you can get assistance with the issue. With that being said, here’s what happened:

To make a long story short, I noticed that about half of the Mercury bundle plugins weren’t showing up in VST3 format in REAPER. The same plugs would show up in VST and AU formats, which indicated that the plugins were in fact installed on the system. So I decided to clear the cache in the plugins preferences and rescan the plugins folder.

As it scanned the VST3 plugins from Waves, it stalled at Greg Wells MixCentric. Then REAPER flat out crashed. When I re-launched REAPER, there was still no sign of the missing VST3 plugins, and MixCentric was one of them.

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So I contacted Waves support. Free vst automatic beat machine. After trying a couple of things, we were able to remedy the problem with a clean install. This required that I go through a few steps to uninstall everything Waves related on my system, and then allow only the newest versions of everything to be installed by Waves Central. The whole process took a couple of hours, but by the end of it all I was back up and running. When I loaded REAPER again, I cleared the cache and re-scanned again. This time there was no crash, and at the end of the scan I had all of the missing plugins.

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1. Quit all audio related software.
2. Launch Waves Central and login. Choose: Install->Uninstall Products (at the top).
3. Choose All Waves plugins V9 click ‘Uninstall‘.
4. Once the uninstall is finished – quit Waves Central.

1. Quit all the audio related software on your Mac.
2. Please use the Waves uninstaller to remove all the Waves software from your computer, located in Applications > Waves > Utilities > Waves uninstaller and check “Remove All” to remove also the old versions. (If not available skip to the next step)
3. Delete “Waves” folder located in your Applications folder
4. Go to the following locations and delete any WaveShell file/s of any version number found:
   1. HD > Library > Audio > Plug-ins > Components
   2. HD > Library > Audio > Plug-ins > VST
   3. HD > Library > Audio > Plug-ins > VST3
   4. HD > Library > Application Support > Avid > Audio > Plug-Ins*
   5. HD > Library > Application Support > Digidesign > Plug-ins*
      * This location is only present if Protools is installed
5. Delete the “Waves Preferences” folder located at HD > Users > Current user > Library > Preferences (this folder is accessed by going to the Go menu and holding down the Altoption key. This will reveal the Library option)
6. Delete the folder “Waves” located at HD > Current User > Library > Caches (this folder is accessed by opening the Go menu and holding down the [Alt/Option] key. This will reveal the Library option)
7. Go to Mac HD > Library > Application Support and delete the “Waves” and “Waves Audio” folders.

• Download the latest version of Waves Central from this direct linkand install it on your computer.
• Follow the instructions on theInstalling your Waves products and demos article on our support page in order to reinstall your activated products.

As a long-time waves user, I’ve been slowly accumulating a collection of plugs prior to this subscription being available. That means I’ve been installing them intermittently over the last two years on this machine, and there have been updates since then. Those updates most likely were conflicting with previous files I’d installed, causing some to go missing and others to trigger a system crash. That’s why performing a clean install of everything worked. There was no longer old stuff mucking up the works and conflicting with the new stuff.

As mentioned above, if you’re having an issue with the new subscription working properly in REAPER, you should be certain that you’re using the VST3 version of the plugin in question. If it didn’t show up, a clean install may be the answer. I would do this with Waves tech support, as there may be further issues. Now that I’m up and running with the supported VST3 plugins, everything is running exactly as it should. I couldn’t be happier.

Thanks to Brandon for writing this up and sharing the info.

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I have tried to install Nomad Factory's Bundle - Blue tubes VST Collection (ver3/64bit) on my PC running windows7. It is an admittedly unique & tedious bundle to install requiring activations & authorazations but i think i am doing it correctly. When I am done with the install and launch Ableton Live (ver 8.2.1)- i see that Live scans for VST's in the lower left corner of the window and..(drum roll).. all the names of the Nomad Factory VST's zip by (i always get excited at this point) but ultimately, the plug-ins wont show up in Live's plug-in devices window anywhere.?.?

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I have tried rescanning in the preferences of live and even going straight into my VST parent folder copying and pasting the Nomad Factory vst .dll's in a number of different folders and sub folders which exist, hit 'rescan', and nothing changes. Yep, this where all the rest of my 3rd party plug-ins reside..and SHOW UP in Live! ..why not the Nomad VST's?
any tips would be great.
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