Waves Central, standalone instruments and amps Still, this is not official support, Waves Support will not be able to troubleshoot technical issues. However, we have found that Waves V12 plugins load and work, when these DAWs are running in the Rosetta 2 emulator environment. These DAWs have not yet announced official support for M1 processors. Pro Tools 2020.12, Ableton Live 10, FL Studio 20.10, Studio One 5, Reason 11, Bitwig Studio 3.3, Digital Performer, Adobe Audition 2020 We expect developments in the near future and will update this page with new developments as they are available. We are working on providing official support. Waves software is not yet officially supported on Apple Computers with the new Apple Silicon M1 processors.

On the page Screengrabbed above Waves are clear about the situation: And despite Logic Pro being a native application on M1s, Waves plugins are unable to load inside Logic Pro even through Rosetta 2. But you should contact the app developer to inquire about a version that can natively use the full power and performance of Apple silicon.īut unfortunately for Waves plugin users, the plugin giant's massive catalog is not yet officially supported for M1 systems. In most cases, you won't notice any difference in the performance of an app that needs Rosetta. It automatically translates the app for use with Apple silicon.

Rosetta 2 works in the background whenever you use an app built only for Mac computers with an Intel processor. As stated on Apple’s Rosetta 2 support page: While some plugin developers like Fabfilter were quick to turn around M1 compatible native plugins, many developers are still quite a ways away from porting software to an M1 world.įor some plugins not yet M1 supported, Apple has provided its Rosetta 2 translation system as a solution.

If you've been one of the many brave souls to jump on Apple's brand new Silicon-based Macs, no doubt you've accepted the fact that limitations come with being a bleeding-edge user. If your Waves plugins are missing on your Apple M1 Mac then we have the solution to run them.

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