Mac Studio M1 Ultra, WaveLab 13
Why doesn’t WaveLab detect my CD drive?
In the “Device” selection menu, only “DDP Image” is available.
The external USB CD drive is recognized by macOS and works fine with other applications (can read and burn discs), but WaveLab does not show it at all.
Any ideas what could be causing this?
on macOS Tahoe, CD drives are only recongnized in rosetta mode.
thank you!
That’s odd, in that he mentioned it works with other apps. In WL 12, with Tahoe 26.3.1 (a), with a Lite-On powered USB DVD-R drive, I get both native support and WaveLab support.
I have heard that sometimes a bus-powered CD-R or DVD-R drive will sometimes not work with a new MacBook, but I don’t have one to test that with.
This is unstable (after using this feature). Unless something was changed in the latest macOS.
It is a bit buggy. I have had it cause WL to quit unexpectedly, and the OS puts multiple icons on the desktop for a single CD-R or DVD-R, as you go through the process.
But if you’re willing to put up with annoyances, it will actually burn a CD from WaveLab, which is readable in other players.
It was not so buggy in previous MacOS versions, so hopefully this is a temporary situation. But it should definitely show up in WaveLab, and work (when WaveLab doesn’t crash).
Hoping this will improve in a future MacOS update.
Adding this key to startup.ini will activate the CD scan, but that will be as unstable as on WaveLab 12 in macOs Tahoe:
CanCdDrive=1
I’ll keep experimenting and see if I can find a reliable workaround to the instability. Maybe closing WL while the OS scans the drive when you insert a disc, and then opening once the drive is found, or some combination of actions.
FWIW, WaveLab had no trouble finding the drive or writing to it once the system was aware of it. Well, no trouble when it didn’t crash.
I didn’t modify the .ini file, BTW. WaveLab found the drive as soon as the OS saw it.
Not possible if you use WaveLab 13 in non-Rosetta mode. Because WaveLab does not attempt to search the CD drives.
Interesting. I have not done anything to deliberately enter Rosetta mode. I’ll investigate later today.
The OS searches and finds it, and then WaveLab “sees” what the system sees, would be a better description of what’s happening.
But in WaveLab 13 on macOS Tahoe, WaveLab does not instruct the OS to search.
macOS: Tahoe 26.3.1 (a)
WLPRO: 13.0.10
Enabling the “Open using Rosetta” option solved everything in my case, although some plugins refused to work.
