I just installed Wavelab 13 and t does not recognize my CD drive. Wavelab 12 did not have this issue. I read online that you need to run it under Rosetta on the Mac for it to work. Nothing like going backwards folks. It would be nice if basic items that worked in the past actually worked instead of all the new bells and whistles.
I’ve just about had it with this company. I dropped Cubase and Dorico because of all the nonsense of running all this other stupid software just to install or update. Heh, developers it’s 2026 not 1996. Well I think I’m just going to drop Wavelab too!
One trick that I’ve had to do over the years (even before WaveLab 13) is to open the CD Dialogue box (whatever you’re trying to do) first and then insert the CD into your drive.
Seems like more of a Mac thing but in some cases, macOS can take control of the CD drive and not allow WaveLab to access it.
Both with WaveLab 12 and 13, if the feature is enabled in macOS Tahoe, this is a door open to instability because a memory corruption will happen, probably crashing WaveLab. In WaveLab 12, the feature is enabled. WaveLab 13, it is disabled.
BTW, if what you need is grabbing CD, you can do that from the macOS Finder.
WaveLab 13 doesn’t directly recognize the CD drive on macOS 26.3 due to system-level changes. Using Rosetta or disabling certain macOS features can help, but the safer workaround is to rip/extract CDs using Finder or a third-party app like XLD.