Suggestion: Auto Mono/Stereo Configuration for Waves Plugins

Hello, I’m a registered user of Waves and have always enjoyed using your plugins.

I have a suggestion regarding the plugin versions. Whenever I insert a Waves plugin onto a track in my DAW (Cubase), I see at least two versions of the plugin—mono and stereo. From my experience, inserting a mono version onto a stereo track causes the plugin to affect only one side of the stereo field, which is not what I want.

Because of this, I often feel uncertain when choosing between the mono and stereo versions, as selecting the wrong one can lead to unintended results. These days, many other plugin developers offer plugins that automatically adapt their mono/stereo configuration based on the track type. I would really appreciate it if Waves plugins could adopt a similar behavior for a smoother workflow.

This is one of the biggest things that bothers most people. Unfortunately, I don’t think it’s likely to change, if it were they would have done it by now.

I may be wrong, but I believe this is so their plugins can maintain backwards compatibility with early ProTools projects. Yep, that would be the “industry standard” ProTools screwing people around yet again. :confounded_face: