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Ortiz Ullery

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Aug 4, 2024, 6:46:12 PM8/4/24

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HiJust saw this. I am having trouble with waves plugins in Reaper with windows 11. I saw your fix but have a question. I saw on the waves website that you cannot install your plugins more than once a year, In fact I tried directly uninstalling the plugins through maintenance on the app and the option is not there. Am I correct in assuming if I follow your fix I can then re-install the plugins?

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Rich

This should fix the problem, personally I skipped step 5, which still works but it takes longer because Reaper is still having to struggle with the previously installed problem plugins, but it seems to figure itself out once it sees the reverted versions. Hope this helps!

There's no need to change the track format although it is probably worthwhile doing as fisherking suggests to see what happens. Have a look in Plugin Manager and make sure that you have both versions installed.

Harmony is designed to do a variety of things from doubling a vocal to creating a lush harmony spread across the stereo field. The operative term being "stereo"which is a big part of its strength. This is probably why there is a limit of what you can do in the mono version.

What you can do, is hold in option when choosing a plugin and get access to the stereo versions of the plugins if need be, but the m->s version should, in there work fine here. It may however, not show up if you're inserting it between two mono plugins. Try changing any following plugin to stereo format and it should show.

At the top of the UI sits the major Key and Scale input, allowing Harmony to lock itself into the right musical context. This can also be used to snap incoming vocal audio to a pre-determined key. Despite this relatively simple layout, digging a little deeper into Harmony reveals a swathe of formant, pitch, delay and filtering options, as well as some satisfying modulation control. These can be used on each voice individually or on the whole harmony.

The bottom of the Waves Harmony plugin window contains nondescript labels to open up modulation controls, as well as pitch, harmony and stereo spread options. These can be easily assigned to most Harmony controls. Within each of the four (M) control boxes you have the option to manually draw in a modulator shape, or choose from factory presets.

Conventional wisdom has it that musically pleasant harmonies comprise mainly musical thirds and sixths, but adding in a fifth at a very low level and maybe even a sub octave can also contribute to the overall sound without becoming too obvious. Stacking harmony voices using small formant, timing and pitch offsets is an effective way to create a rich ensemble sound and, in the context of a mix, the harmonies can be made to sound very realistic, fitting nicely into contemporary productions, especially once a little delay and reverb has been added. Once set up, Waves Harmony can generate such harmonies automatically, and if your song includes a key change or a section that requires a different harmony, one way to deal with that is to separate the sections onto different tracks, each treated with its own instance of Waves Harmony with appropriate settings. Alternatively you could simply write the harmony parts for any unusual sections on a MIDI track and let that control the proceedings.

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How to animate the transverse waves. Top of the wave height is called crest and bottom of the point is called trough. This type of waves continuously moving forward. Could please share the key poses of one cycle.

Not sure if we have any users of the Waves CLA compressors (CLA76, CLA2A, CLA3A), but I'm curious how they fare in terms of CPU performance. I'm a big UAD user, but when I start running Lexicon reverbs, buss compressors, etc., it lowers my ability to run many instances of the venerable 1176 on individual channels. I don't have the updated/re-coded UAD compressors, but those would only be more chip hungry.

I have owned the CLA collection for at least 5 years now. To be completely honest, I don`t look at CPU usage when using my DAW/plugs but if performance was spotty, I would have noticed by now. Granted, I have my iMac maxed out with RAM. Most of my songs are 24-40 tracks of audio/VIs with multiple plugs being used at the same time. No problems to report.

I do not have any experience with the UAD stuff but from what I`ve read online, most users have nothing bad to say. I really like the CLA stuff as well and having used the hardware (LA-2a and 1176s), the plugs are pretty darn close. I use them a lot. If you`re looking for compressor plugs, the CLA collection and the SSL collection are definitely worth it. (Waves has specials every month so you may want to wait for sales on those collections.)

I have the older set of Waves plugins. I still think they are some of the best out there. As far as consumption goes, they are what I'd consider to be medium/heavy CPU consumption plugs back when I first got them. Computers have come a long way since then and they would be medium or light on most computers now. . I normally use them for mastering but I can run quite a few instances in Sonar without any big issues.

I don't have the newer ones but I'd think waves would use similar logrhythms to keep the consumption down. Allot of times they just shift parameters and give plugins a new GUI without any big changes to the original codes. I'm not sure how much they could improve on the older ones besides the way the parameters work/blend. The GUI on the older ones are a little primitive compared to newer ones but I'd still put the results above most others I've tried, especially their multiband and limiter.

Thanks guys. When the CLA bundle goes on sale next, I think I'll grab it. I'm also interested in their Hybrid Compressor (H Compressor), and perhaps when it goes on sale I'll grab one of those as well.

I got it resolved last night. My audio PC is off the network and Internet, so it doesn't get Windows updates. When I went to install Waves Central, it threw an exception. Luckily Waves got back to me quickly with the recommended O/S patch, and the plugins installed flawlessly.

So far I really like them. I use the 1176 far more than the others, and it sounds very similar to the UA recreations. I've never used a real 1176, but given that I now have two recreations that sound very similar, I trust the real thing is in the ballpark.

A real 1176 is one of my all-time favorite compressor/limiters - they're about as speedy as they come, and super-common in LA-area studios. Glad to hear you got everything worked out and that it's all working for you now!

So, what happens when more than one pitch is played at the same time? In music, we call two notes being played at the same time an interval, and three ore more notes (2+ intervals) a chord. But, sound waves travel pretty fast, so that they effectively occupy the whole volume of air around us all at once, so how can more sound wave exist in the same space? What happens is that the waves overlap with one another and effect each other, resulting in a new wave: this process is known as Interference, and is demonstrated in Figure 7 (SLH-PAP).

Other researchers have partially replicated these results. Sylvain Williams, McGill University, Montreal, and colleagues saw restored hippocampal gamma waves and slightly better spatial memory in amyloidosis mice after 40 Hz flashes using optogenetic stimulation, but plaques did not budge (Etter et al., 2019). Researchers led by Shuzo Sakata, University of Strathclyde, Scotland, U.K., actually saw plaques grow, also after optogenetic stimulation, but they did not assess changes in memory (Wilson et al, 2020).

Gamma Gains. In mice, light and sound induce gamma oscillations in the brain. These senses stimulate neurons, glial cells, and blood vessels, possibly clearing debris and improving synaptic function and memory. [Courtesy of Li-Huei Tsai, MIT.]

While a one-time treatment of either light or sound alone boosted people's brain waves, the combination engaged the most brain areas in all participants. The flashing lights and humming sounds triggered no headaches, vision or hearing changes, or seizures, Tsai reported.