Cubase 12 scans all plugins on startup. Every time. And it takes ages

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Hiya. Running C12 on W10. I’ve had some problems with it crashing on startup, but the latest upgrade seems to have solved that.

BUT

It now runs a complete plugin scan EVERY TIME I start it up. Takes anywhere up to 25 minutes . This feels fairly ridiculous for a professional product. C11 is still rock-solid and starts up fairly immediately.

Anybody have any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?

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I think it could be a plugin that is changing something in the VST2 folders on exit.
So Cubase thinks it needs to scan the VST2 folders.
But of course, it’s just an idea.

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That would maybe make sense, I think.

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Do you use any Waves plugins?

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I do. Puigtec, Abbey Road Chambers, Vinyl and TG Mastering, Butch Vig and Scheps channel strips and maybe one or two others.

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You can try temporarily removing the Waveshells. If this solves the issue then use this (make a batch file).

Note this just stops the local server, deletes it and deletes caches. All are recreated next time you start.

taskkill /f /im WavesLocalServer.exe
timeout /t 1 /nobreak
rmdir /s /q "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Waves Audio\Waves Local Server"
rmdir /s /q "%APPDATA%\Waves Audio\Caches"
Pause
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Thanks! I’ll give it a go!

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Don’t forget to remove all Waveshells. From VST3 and VST2 locations. Worth a try and you can always move them back if it makes no difference.

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Make sure your plugins are up to date, and if you run any kind of system disk cleanup or maintenance tools disable them and try.

Basically anything that could cause a modification in the plugin folders can be a culprit.