Waves Tune with Cubase 12 & ReWire

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I got interested in buying Waves Tune to use with Cubase. But when searching for tutorials etc I find that one needs to install Waves ReWire in order to sync between the plugin and the DAW (Cubase and/or Mixcraft in my case).

Q1: But I can’t find any plugin named ReWire on Waves product pages. Am I looking in the wrong place?

Q2: I also don’t know if Waves Tune work well with Cubase 12. Can anyone with experience tell?

//RIL

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Hi @RIL,

Welcome to the Waves Forum.

The rewire component is installed when installing the Waves Tune plugin.
Without ReWire, Waves Tune will display a message that “ReWire link has not been established” and will not sync to the host transport and timeline. Kindly note that this feature simply syncs the DAWs timeline to the plugins, it works exactly the same without it.

Also worth adding is that the Rewire software is not related to Waves, the compatibility requirements are on the DAW’s side.

You can always try a demo and see how it works out for you.

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Found this answer to using Waves Tune w/o ReWire and the note Waves’ Admin added is hilarious.

NO, it is not your DAW’s fault for dropping support for a discontinued protocol. It is DEFINITELY Waves’ fault for not paying their programmers to find another solution ones the freeware they were relying on was discontinued. This is exactly the kind of thing Waves’ customers complain about most. WUP is amazing. Its a necessity for commercial sound recording studios and I love not having to buy new versions of plugins I already equipped the computers with, at ours… However, like everyone else, I hate that don’t work on improvements and solutions for issues like this as a result. The issue on their end is obviously that they don’t get a big release day payoff, like they’d get if they created SSL Comp2, F6-RTA 4, etc. What makes it so obvious is watching the companies that switched to tool-rental (subscription) slow down on improvements too.

For the record, ReWire was Propellerhead’s (now Reason Studios) software that allowed Reason to patch into other DAWs back before they added audio tracking & editing and the Reason Rack plugin. Reason used to be like a super-VST that gave you a production studio filled with (emulations of) everything you could ever ask for in an analog production studio. Instead of having to print trackouts of all your beat tracks, you’d just open your DAW > open Reason > Each channel I/O would magically appear in your DAW’s input options, thanks to ReWire. Reason got rid of ReWire to force their customers to update to the newer versions as their main DAW, but Reason is still awful for post-production… but also the absolute best DAW for production.
Anyway, Waves still hasn’t fixed this issue years after ReWire vanished from the world.

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