Waves offers TDM, RTAS, AudioUnit, and VST plug-ins for Pro Tools, Cubase, Nuendo, Logic, Ableton Live, and other popular audio stations. From the industry’s most popular equalizers, compressors and limiters to award-winning reverbs, surround sound and noise reduction tools, where there’s sound, there’s Waves. With 64-bit support, faster scanning, faster loading, and faster processing, Waves 9 opens up new dimensions of performance for high-performance plugins. System Requirements Windows CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz | AMD Athlon 64 or equivalent RAM : 4 GB Operating system : Windows 7 | Windows 8 screen resolution: 1024×768 32 bit Supported Hosts Pro Tools 11.0.1 – 11.1 (AAX Native 64 bit, Audiosuite) Pro Tools 9.0.5 – 10.3.8 (TDM, RTAS, Audiosuite) Ableton Live – 9.2.1. (VST) Nuendo 5.1.0 – 6.0.6 (VST3) Cubase 6.0.3 – 7.5 (VST3) WaveLab 7.2.1.600 – 8.0.3 (VST3) Sonar X2 (VST), X3c (VST3) Sound Forge 10.0 – 10.0c e (VST) Vegas 11 – 12 (VST) Acid 7.0e (VST) Audition CS5.5 (VST), CS6 (VST3) Samplitude ProX (VST) Sequoia 12 (VST) Pyramix 7.1.10, 8.0.11 (VST) Studio One 2.0 – 2.6.1 (VST3) Media Composer 6.5 – 7.0.3 (RTAS) Exceptions and Notes: ## 32/64 bit: Version 9 supports all the above audio hosts in 32 bit and 64 bit versions, where available. ## Pro Tools HD: Pro Tools HD cards require a Waves SoundGrid license to run plug-ins. ## Pro Tools HD: Accel card required to run the following plug-ins: GTR3 Amps, H-Delay, H-EQ, InPhase, InPhase LT, Kramer HLS, Kramer Master Tape, L3 Multi & Ultra, L3-LL Multi & Ultra , Morphoder , NS1 and PuigTec EQs. Other plugins require an Accel card for higher sample rates. ## Surround plug-ins are supported on the following machines: Pro Tools (requires TDM, AAX Native 64-bit and RTAS and Complete Production Toolkit only), Logic Pro, Nuendo, Cubase, Audition CS6 and Pyramix. ## The item is supported by the following hosts: Pro Tools HD (AAX Native 64-bit, RTAS and Audiosuite only), Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Nuendo, Cubase, Main Stage, Studio One, Sonar, Samplitude, Sequoia. ## DeBreath is not supported on Main Stage and Garage Band. ## Final Cut Pro X does not support NLS. ## Soundtrack Pro does not support GTR3. ## UM225 and UM226 are supported on the following machines: Pro Tools HD (requires TDM, AAX Native 64-bit and RTAS and Complete Production Toolkit only), Audition CS6, Nuendo, Cubase and Pyramix. The UM226 is also supported by Logic Pro and Digital Performer. ## Sidechain is only supported by Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Nuendo, Cubase, Audition CS6, Sonar X3c, and Studio One. ## Waves Tune & Tune LT: supported on Pro Tools (AAX Native 64-bit only, RTAS and Audiosuite only), Logic Pro (9.1.3 – 9.1.8), Nuendo, Cubase, Ableton Live and Studio One. ## SoundShifter: For Pro Tools, SoundShifter’s graphical and parametric functionality only supports AudioSuite. On all other hosts, only SoundShifter Pitch is supported. ## MIDI support: the following hosts do not support MIDI: Sonar, WaveLab, Main Stage, Pyramix, Garage Band, Wave Burner and Soundtrack Pro. ## Q-Clone: not supported on the following hosts: Main Stage, Garage Band, Media Composer, Sound Forge Pro (Mac). The Q-Capture component is not supported on Main Stage, Wave Burner and Soundtrack Pro.Sample rate support – All Waves plugins support 44.1kHz and 48kHz; most support a higher sampling rate. – MultiRack Native and MultiRack SoundGrid have the same sampling rate as Native. – Avid VENUE supports up to 48kHz. V9r15 Changes – New WLM Plus volume meter available separately and in Mercury, Diamond, Broadcast & Production, SoundGrid Pro and SoundGrid SD7 Pro versions. – The new Scheps 73 is available separately as well as in Mercury, SoundGrid Pro and SoundGrid SD7 Pro versions. – Added support for Media Composer 7.0.3 on Mac. – Added support for WaveLab 8.0.3 on Mac. – Fixed graphics corruption in Logic X for several plugins.