
Wave can find offline installers, but hangs at 0.9% for awhile, then fails, so I may have to install Waves Central Legacy to get those. So I have offline installers for version 9 plugins. While winecfg and wine explorer are correctly showing my USB license thumb drive as E:, Waves Central isn’t finding them. Success! Yabridge scans and Reaper loads. Install and Activate v10 of WLM Loudness Meter. This may have been a critical stumbling block in the past.


So I removed Snap Firefox and installed the deb instead. If I login via Firefox to Waves, Waves Central still doesn’t detect. Waves Central launches and wants me to login, but it’s not launching browser. Question: Should I leave powershell open during all this, or close once it says, “Hit enter or esc to close.” I have been leaving it open out of fear. Installed free Blue Cat plugins as a test. I'll report back as needed, but if I don't have it by Monday or Tuesday, I'm throwing in the towel. I'm going to meticulously document this and if I can come up with something that's not magic and is reproducible, I'll write it up. If you have had success or know of another How to that may help, please chime in.

I'm going to start with Sophomoric Periods' blog post, and see where that leads me.

Today I did a fresh Wave prefix, backed up my yabridge folders before erasing them, and I'm going to systematically try to get these installed. I have several thousand dollars of plugins (back from when Waves overcharged everyone!), and I'd like to try to keep getting some value out of them. Other times, I can't even get the installers to log me in. I've come close myself, having installed v9 through v13 only to have it crap out at licensing. There are a few success stories, but mostly failures. I've read many threads in this Forum, Reddit, and other places where people have been trying to install Waves plugins under Wine. How to install Waves plugins, Versions 9-13, in Linux
