(If you do, just suffer through the next little bit). Starting from scratch, I'm assuming you do not have any Waves plugins installed in Windows. If your computer is not dual-boot, it may be possible to use a Windows vm in Virtualbox and then mount the virtual drive in Linux, but I have not tried this. You are already familiar with bridging WinVST plugins. You have a working Wine and yaboot install. While activating versions 10 through 13 is straightforward, installing version 9 plugins has always been problematic and is the main goal of this post. Goal: Install and authorize Waves plugins, versions 9 and up under Wine in Linux. While I use Reaper, I believe these instructions will work for any DAW.

Below is my best attempt to outline the steps I took to install Waves versions 9 through 13 in Linux using Wine and yabridge. I took detailed notes and made many mistakes that forced me to start over. I recently spent a fair amount of time experimenting to get all my Waves plugins installed and authorized. Using these under Linux/Reaper has been problematic. As an old macOS/Avid user, I have collected over the decade several thousand dollars of Waves plugins.

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