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January 30, 2017
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Waves Plugins - Effects Box vs Wave Editor

  • January 30, 2017
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I loaded the Waves Platinum package into Audition and I'm having an issue with the plugin routing. When I use a plugin in the Wave Editor things work great. The effect is inserted and the effected track is what you hear.

When you add a Wave Plugin to the Effects Box in Multi-track editor things are different - the original audio is heard on one channel and the effected signal is heard on the other channel (left vs right) and I cannot set the Plugin routing to play only the effected audio to both left and right channels. Mixing down a multi-track session with Waves plugins results in the same situation where the original signal is on one channel and the effected signal is on the other.

The routing box for the plugin allows me to set the output correctly in the Wave Editor, but not the Multi-Track Editor Effects Box.

Right now the only way I can use the plug-ins correctly is in destructive editing mode (Wave File Editor) and I cannot preview or mix while in Multi-track mode.

I've tried searching the forums, the control panels for routing and options and have not been successful locating a solution.

I am running the latest Audition 2017.

Anyone solve this?

Cheers,

Kent

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Correct answer kents27989677

What I have discovered is that the same Waves plug-in may come in two flavors - one "Mono" and the other "Stereo".

It is necessary to use the STEREO version of a plug-in in the multi-track editor even if your source file is mono. Otherwise you get the plugin routing that pushes the bypass signal to one channel output and the effected signal on the other output.

Using the Stereo plug-in gives the proper routing.

You may need to enable the "sum to mono" control on your multi-track Track if the plugin adds any unwanted stereo effect.

Thank you for your attention on this issue.

- Kent

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kents27989677
kents27989677AuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
January 31, 2017

What I have discovered is that the same Waves plug-in may come in two flavors - one "Mono" and the other "Stereo".

It is necessary to use the STEREO version of a plug-in in the multi-track editor even if your source file is mono. Otherwise you get the plugin routing that pushes the bypass signal to one channel output and the effected signal on the other output.

Using the Stereo plug-in gives the proper routing.

You may need to enable the "sum to mono" control on your multi-track Track if the plugin adds any unwanted stereo effect.

Thank you for your attention on this issue.

- Kent

SteveG_AudioMasters_
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SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
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January 31, 2017

Thanks for getting back. I'm going to alert them to this anyway, just in case there's a way of trapping this out so it doesn't catch the unwary...

    SteveG_AudioMasters_
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    SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
    Community Expert
    January 30, 2017

    I shall draw the dev's attention to this tomorrow (if they haven't already seen it), as other routing bugs have been reported to them - hopefully some fixes are on the way.

    kents27989677
    kents27989677Author
    Inspiring
    January 30, 2017

    Thank you very much. As an additional data point the Focusrite Red plugins work correctly in both multi-track and wave editors. It seems to be only (and all of the) Waves plugins.

    Cheers,

    -K

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