Posting this to several threads because lots of people seem to have different forms of this issue and I want to spread the word on what worked for me. Here’s my story… I run Studio One 5.x with 100+ plugins on Windows 10. Mainly use Waves, SoundToys, Plugin Alliance, and Fab Filter EQ. Everything w…

Hi @socalsounddesign @Larioso , If your system is compatible with the current Waves versions you own and you encounter an ongoing issue please Contact Technical Support again and have them investigate the issue and collect data.

Thanks, I am going to second this comment, this was the solution for me! I use my laptop at work on occasionally, so I have a mapped drive. If that drive is mapped and disconnected, Waves hangs when I load it up. As soon as I “disconnect” the drive, everything works perfectly.

This should be at the top! Had the same issue and this solution works with Mac OS and Protools. HD\Library\ApplicationSupport\Waves\WavesLocalServer Delete Folder.

Man thank you so much for this!!!

I fixed my problem! For my situation all I had to do was disconnect 2 mapped drives that were no longer valid. I had to do it through CMD as administrator, even File Explorer was crashing when I tried to get the right click dialog up on win10. Now my projects are loading with no problem. I am r…

That you become the technician of waves. Your solution was extremely effective… Thank you for not making me spend days of work with such a ridiculous problem! Thanks

I have been living with this problem since purchasing the Diamond Collection V12 last August 2021. -Pro Tools slow starting - always lengthy pause at “Loading Plug-Ins: WaveShell1-AAX 12.7” . -Opening a project, “Restoring tracks…” each track with Waves Plug-ins took 10-20 seconds to complete. -T…

Wow crazy, thanks. I had a couple of network drives unmapped and now a song loads in 5 seconds compared to a couple of minutes. I’m a new user of Waves and these are the only plugs I had the issue with and it wasn’t going well. So, in windows, I suspect it triggers access to those drives, but they…

Glad you found this helpful and this methodology has resolved your issue. All of what you say is to the best of my knowledge correct. True, it’s only with Waves. I have an NAS drive mapped and use it sparingly after backups are performed thus its powered off but mapping is in place for next time. Wi…

Very helpful, amazingly fast, for a little while I thought would need new machine to run them, even though everything else was fine. Could be where we have license on external USB and does a scan for disks on system which cause the freeze. A plug can load pretty much instant now but it was excessive…

SOLVED: Waves plugins very slow to load

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Thanks for the kind words, much appreciated. I truly wish Waves would do something about this especially with all of the above testimonies

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SOLVED: Waves plugins very slow to load

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