NI Komplete disables Waves Plugins in Cubase only

Cubase
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Hi there I run a bunch of (legit) DAWs. Cubase 8, Ableton 9, ProTools etc.
Here the only issue is with Waves plugins and NI Komplete (also legit).

First of all, I will say that this problem is only happening in Cubase and none of the other DAWs.
FYI I can also successfully load NI Komplete in standalone mode and insert Waves plugins there.
But once I load Komplete into a Instrument track on a Cubase project, I can no longer insert any more Waves plugins.
I am told that Cubase cannot find the Waves license!!
Yet the ones I have loaded prior to adding the NI instrument are still usable.

If I remove all NI instruments from the project, I can then add Waves plugins again.
As soon as I have done this though, I am back to square one.
Any time I want to add more Waves plugins to the project I need to repeat this process.

Please, if anyone has had this issue and solved it, let me know!
As stated above, this issue ONLY happens when using Cubase! Thanks :slight_smile:

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First how can you load waves in kontakt standalone? Do you mean komplete?

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What I would try is to put the waveshells in a new folder and point cubase to I as an extra vst folder. Komplete will now not see nor use the waves. If you can now use both you have a working solution. BTW I would set up komplete to only see NI plug ins just to keep this gs simple.

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I shall try and report back. Already have my Waves in a separate folder, just need to change NI prefs. Got a feeling though that Cubase scans the lot and NI doesn’t like the way it scans, but hey ho, hopefully I shall be proven wrong on that :smiley: Thanks! Watch this space…

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OK so no. Since the last NI Update, Komplete Kontrol doesn’t point to any opf my Waves folders. Kontakt5 has no options to choose a plugins folder as far as I can see… (?) And again, this issue doesn’t happen in Ableton for example, it only happens in Cubase 8.GAH!

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But can you still load waves in komplete kontrol? If yes it still sees one of the waveshell.dll.

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Thanks for your input vinark, very much appreciated.
So yes I was actually in the middle of scanning my Waves plugins into KK while you were writing your message.
I was obviously hoping that would help, but it didn’t.
I also double checked by inserting an Arturia softsynth into a Cubase project.
This did not affect access to the Waves plugins.
So it defintely seems to be a Cubase+NI+Waves combo over here!!