Not even an answer from you guys at waves?
Please bring this up and running!
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Enabling Central on Linux is not the issue. The main request is for a plugins version that supports Linux, right?
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Hi there, now, when Presonus offering Studio One on Linux (beta for now, but it seems very good!), maybe itās another reason to go to be Linux ready?
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As soon as Studio One is stable on Linux I would change to it and let the Mac behind. It would be nice if Waves also make this stept (otherwise I must sadly say goobye to my many Waves plugins)
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I fully agree. Itās daft to have to use MacOS or Windows 11 box for just running LV1
And Waves Audio please donāt come up with the excuse of we donāt know how to program on Linuxā¦ your DSP servers running it!!!
So get your propeller head on and start making LV1 and others to work native on Linux (just pick any of the distroās)
Thank you
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+1 here, keeping the hope alive that Waves listens to its clients.
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Upvoting, too! @Waves: Even if you donāt want to maintain Linux versions of your massive library of plugins, could you at least come up with a licensing tool that isnāt so locked into Windows? I just switched to Linux and you guys are the odd man out. All of my other Windows VSTs ā you know, ones with a NORMAL installer ā work great on Linux. But since Waves Central does whatever black voodoo it does, Iām out of luckā¦. More precisely, youāre out of luck because I will never be paying for newer versions of anything.
I think you underestimate how pissed off people are with Microsoft. It sucks losing my Waves plugins, but not enough to coerce me into continuing to use Windows.
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Letās go, Waves! 6 years of requests from users and no peep from you! ā ā ā !
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Iāve been using Reaper on Linux for quite a while now and, while I would love to use my Waves plugins, I havenāt been ā and wonāt be ā booting back into Windows to do it. Iād prefer that Waves come around to supporting Linux. If they donāt, the are plenty of other companies that do.
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Dear Waves,
Please offer native Linux binaries of your products! 
Here are five reasons why you should support Linux:
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The Linux market share is growing steadily.
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Linux offers a robust and flexible audio server in the form of PipeWire, which outperforms its macOS and Windows counterparts in many areas.
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Amazing DAWs such as Ardour, Bitwig Studio, Mixbus, Reaper, Renoise, and Fender Studio Pro are already available for Linux.
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Many audio vendors, including Audio Damage, AudioThing, DDMF, discoDSP, Kazrog, Sinevibes, TAL Software, Toneboosters, and u-he, as well as numerous other Open Source and proprietary developers, already offer native Linux builds of their software.
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Most modern audio frameworks can easily build native Linux plugin binaries out of the box.
Many thanks for considering supporting Linux in advance! 
(linuxaudio.dev)
Tony Cuny
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This forum post asking for native Linux support was started 5 years ago. Nothing has changed, not even a beta, what incentive is there for me as a Linux user to keep purchasing and updating my Waves collectionānone. Iām not going to wait an eternity for a definitive answer or waste any more of my time trying to make Waves central work with compatibility layers. I think its time to embrace free and open source plugins all the way.
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+1 Yes! Please offer Linux versions of your plugins!
Now that Windows 10 support is at end of life, like many others, Iād like to be able to use my Waves plugins in in Reaper and Audacity on Linux.
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Cāmon Windows s*cks nowadays more than ever, we need Waves plugins on Linux, please 
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Came here to add my vote to the list of people requesting Linux support.
I may have missed it, but have Waves explained why they havenāt implemented this, or given any indication that they are working on it, or are they sticking to nebulous āwe care about your opinion" responses for now? From the comments it sounds like the issue, as with most things, is DRM, rather than the plugins themselves, is that a fair assessment?
While we wait, if anyone cares to namedrop any promising competitors to their L3/C6 plugins which DO have native Linux support, I am more than happy to vote with my purse as well, as Iāve just started migrating my studio machines away from Windows. The only thing still tying me to it is Waves and Xfer, but the enshittification of Windows has outgrown my desire to hold on to them in spite of it, and Apple have always been terrible so that was never a serious option.
@Claymoar for what its worth the ReaPack plugins have some solid functional replacements for L3/C6. I think the multi-band is ReaXComp. There is also the linux studio plugins (LSP) pack that includes a lot of functional LV2 and CLAP plugins that can do what youāre looking for. Depending on your distro it can be installed from your package manager directly.
I suspect the primary issue Waves has with unlocking the Linux compiled plugins they have for their servers is that they donāt want to build a new license manager - since they rely on Powershell for their Waves Central windows install and operation. Its like they WANT people to pirate the server versions to be able to use them on Linux - either that or they want us to just not use their product if we wont use windows. Until they show us solid evidence of giving a damn we have to assume its either of those things. They could even add a disclaimer/waiver that they dont offer full support for the plugin on linux similar to what SSL/Harrison does for their plugins - you know, one of their major competitors in the studio space. It would be spectacular if we could just use the plugins native, Iām sure we would all deal with some hiccups if we had access to them without ā ā ā ā ā ā workarounds.