Install Waves License Engine.dmg

Perhaps I've been staring at this too long and I'm missing something obvious...

Having some troubles with the Mac installation. I did every step, INCLUDING the key gen steps under 'RET.txt'. I copied the '.wle license' file to /library/application support/waves/license but when I open my DAW (Reaper) and try to use the plugins they show up in my plugin library, but they still act as though they are not licensed. If you do not see the product(s) for which you wish to register 2nd licenses, you can renew your Waves Update Plan for those products. (Please note that eMotion LV1, SuperRack, MultiRack, SoundGrid Rack for Venue, and all Waves Subscriptions are excluded from the 2nd license benefit: see full 2nd License Terms & Conditions.). Waves plug-ins are installed to a folder called Plug-ins V12 inside the Waves folder on your hard drive. The files in this folder should not be moved. If you'd like to use a custom VST folder, you can locate the default WaveShell-VST from the locations.


First, I verified that I do indeed have licenses in my account on the Waves site:
Next, I verified that Waves Central can see my licenses in My License Cloud:

However, when I attempt an 'Easy Install & Activate,' Waves Central is now telling me that I don'tLicense have any licenses?
So far, I've tried...
  • Clicking 'Refresh'
  • Logging out of then logging back into Waves Central
  • Uninstalling all Waves products, rebooting, then reinstalling the latest version of Waves Central (10.0.0.3)
  • Rebooting my machine first before relaunching Waves Central
  • Running Waves Central as Administrator

Has anyone run into a similar issue before? How were you able to solve it?

This was a surprise to me when I trying to install my V9 plugins, where I could see the licenses but no option to install them in the Waves Central.

Then I figured out the note written in the Waves Central.
It’s because the latest version of Waves Central installs Waves V10 plugins & applications (except SoundGrid V9 applications are still available for installation) via Online source

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Thought to then check the downloads section of the website to see if there is any other option.
Here I found the Legacy offline installer files for V9. But here there were three different download versions, I needed to download the relevant Legacy Offline Installer files from here

Next question in my mind was,
How to determine which version of legacy installer files I need to download?

Did some digging in the support section pages to find the technical specifications required for these installers.

There are 2 factors which I needed to check before knowing which version to download.
a) The OS version I was using (Mac OS 10.13.3)
b) The DAW & it’s version you are using ( ProTools 12)

So I checked the System requirements & Supported hosts to determine which version of Offline Installer files I need to download.

Found that V9.92 installer files are the ones that suit the requirements.

I downloaded these offline installer files from here download

Now How to Install these?
at the bottom of the page, I found this link See Installation Instructions
Followed those instructions & could install the V9 plugins
Just needed to have moved the licenses to the machine

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I could still manage licenses using the latest Waves Central.

It was my honor to share these steps that helped me solve the issue.

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