KVR Audio

skitchy · Post by **skitchy** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 4:35 pm

In the dead of night, I dared to fiendishly auto-update Windows 7 x64.
Today, in a fit of madness, I clicked the shortcut to unleash Cubase upon myself, when I was greeted with the following unholy statement :
"There are no Waves licenses on this computer"
It seemed as though the Waves licenses had escaped and were perhaps running rampant through the unsuspecting back lanes of Cornwall - possibly eating peoples flesh, or brains, or something ...
I knew I had to act fast, so I opened Waves License Centre (in a spooky way) and there it was before me ...
my computer ... was no longer attached to my computer.
As the waves licenses had fled, they must have caused part of my computer to develop a split personality. My computer now appeared in BOTH the attached devices AND the unattached devices simultaneously, but with different names!
Dun dun daaaaaaaaa.
It turned out that the waves licenses existed only in the mind of the unattached personality.

So long story short, I had to recover the licenses and put them on an old USB stick (of doooooom). Another hour of creative time wasted on fixing pointless copy protection that helps nobody. I now have to hope it doesn't happen again for at least a year or I'm completely fu....

arkmabat · Post by **arkmabat** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 4:50 pm

Did you do any recent hardware changes to your computer? That's all I can think of.

Edit: Oh, right after an update. Dang dude... sorry. Did the update involve updates for hardware such as graphics drivers etc? If so, maybe try rolling them back, putting your licenses in the cloud, updating again, and then putting them back on?

ThomasHelzle · Post by **ThomasHelzle** » Thu Jul 10, 2014 5:06 pm

Same here. Lost my licenses so often that I decided to just forget about Waves altogether.
I'm not heavily invested anyway.
I have several "computers" (with names my machine never had) in the license manager, no idea where it gets them from.

I hope this protection-scheme does something for them - it does nothing for me.

Uninstall, move on.

Cheers,

Tom

PatchAdamz · Post by **PatchAdamz** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 2:33 am

Also Same problem here...

Waves offered three options: re-purchase, wait one year to reset, or allow them to connect to my computer to access files on a business computer.

I took option 4, drop Waves and go with the competition who offers realistic support at equal or better the quality.

I'm not one to complain about a company in a forum but this is ridiculous.

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 7:00 am

I have all my licenses on a 4GB stick.

Armadillosound · Post by **Armadillosound** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 7:07 am

I found that selling my Waves plugins solved the problem for me

Clearscreen · Post by **Clearscreen** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 7:45 am

Cleverly, waves license centre hooks everything to your computers LAN MAC address. So when I started using an external dock they stopped working. Ace. At least I could explain that one, why it decided to stop working yesterday, I have no idea...

Soon to be uninstalled.

robotmonkey · Post by **robotmonkey** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 8:02 am

PatchAdamz wrote:
I took option 4, drop Waves and go with the competition who offers realistic support at equal or better the quality.

I'm not one to complain about a company in a forum but this is ridiculous.

Not that I would approve Waves method of CP in general but I'm sure that iLok (that a lot of plugins that are respective counterparts to Waves' use) tends to do a similar thing occasionally. And when this happens you can count on no support at all and the only option most likely would be only to re-purchase everything again as most of the iLok-using devs would probably recommend.

Honestly, if that kind of thing happens just patch out the CP and be done with it.

mcnelson · Post by **mcnelson** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 8:19 am

Armadillosound wrote:I found that selling my Waves plugins solved the problem for me

Indeed. Vote with wallets chaps.

dsan@mail.com · Post by **dsan@mail.com** » Fri Jul 11, 2014 2:16 pm

Unlike ThomasHelzle I am heavily invested (bought the Gold bundle way back when) but like ThomasHelzle I gave up on them. Due to an iLok debacle.

Uninstalled - moved on.

Happy Musiking!
dsan

skyscape · Post by **skyscape** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 1:48 pm

I've given up on waves products entirely, they're such a goddamn pain to install that I don't even bother. There are plenty of other good plugin providers out there that don't come entangled with such nonsense.

sonicpowa · Post by **sonicpowa** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 2:15 pm

^ Pain? You just select the plugins and install.

bluedad · Post by **bluedad** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 2:20 pm

I keep mine on a usb stick, no problems. Easy installation too.

dblock · Post by **dblock** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 4:26 pm

Ditto on the usb stick.

skitchy · Post by **skitchy** » Sat Jul 12, 2014 4:34 pm

Which is great - right up to the point that the USB stick stops working.

Yet another Waves license horror story