I’m on the latest WaveLab 12 on Windows 10 and today added the new Waves Curves Equator (spectral EQ/dynamics) plugin. That plugin works fine in Cubase 13, but the user interface does not display correctly in WaveLab 12.
Here is what it is supposed to look like (from the Waves website since I don’t have Cubase up at the moment):
When searching for it in WaveLab (after making sure it was added in my plugin preferences there), I could not find it by searching with either “curves” or “equator”. It took some digging to figure out why that was. Here is a hint:
That is, like most Waves plugin, they have both mono and stereo versions. WaveLab organizes these as a folder with two plugins in it, with one named Mono and the other Stereo. This is pretty useless since all Waves plugins would match those names. By contrast, in Cubase (and any other DAWs I’ve tried) searching on the actual plugin name matches both mono and stereo versions.
I eventually was able to add the plugin by browsing (once I figured out where it sat in the menu). However, at that point, the loaded interface did not look anything like it should. Here is how it looked in WaveLab:
Basically, like an updated version of the old generic VST plugin interface. I checked a few random other Waves plugins, and they did not have a UI issue (only the same naming issue). However, as I mentioned above, the UI was as it should be in Cubase Pro (13.0.41), so this does seem to be a problem in WaveLab.
Check in the WaveLab Preferences shown here to make sure the “GEN” box is not checked for that plug-in. Sometimes they randomly get set to to “GEN” which means it shows a generic interface instead of the normal GUI:
Thanks Justin! It was indeed checked. My error in that I’m very new to WaveLab and had done some organizing of my plugins a week or so ago and was remembering fiddling with some of the checks in this area, but, now obviously, not remembering what I was doing – it was actually unchecking ones I didn’t want to appear, be it at all or in certain contexts.
Unchecking it did resolve the Curves Equator UI issue. I won’t mark this thread solved yet, though, as the inability to search for Waves plugins due WaveLabs only recognizing the mono or stereo parts of their names is actually going to be a bigger issue for me (at least now that the other part is resolved). If I’m not just missing something here, I apparently must not have been using Waves plugins in my testing with the trial license.
Thanks, PG. I’d originally had the same settings as you, except for also having checked Merge Single Submenus, which I’m guessing must have been the default. While unchecking that did make the Curves Equator searchable, it did not help for other Waves plugins where there are a larger number of plugins that share the same first part, such as “SSL”. However, unchecking Create Submenus Based on Prefixes did the trick:
