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Originally Posted by morelia

Had a stroke of luck last night and the project loaded. So I saved the preset for each Waves plugin and deleted them. The project now loads fine.

- You mean without the Waves plug-ins? Or did you reload the plug-ins and presets and saved the project and that one loads?

- Does anything bad happen when you load Waves plug-ins into an empty project?

- Did I understand that right, the affected projects were initially made with v8?

- You say you're using REAPER 32 bit now. Since the v9 plug-ins in questions are 64-bit, it may be better to use REAPER 64 bit in order to avoid bit-bridging them (in case that is involved in the problem).

Originally Posted by morelia

But now if I try to add a Waves plugin it throws up the Waves License Error and refuses to load. I did have one Wave plugin I was able to insert on a track but now if I try to load the project it throws the error for that plugin.

- Does that also happen when you use REAPER 64 bit?

- Is your Windows on the latest patch level? The plug-ins and the license mechanism are very likely relying on 3rd-party/system modules (MSVCRT etc. "redistributables").

Originally Posted by morelia

So, who can help with this. Seriously, I got rid of Tracktion because of Waves issues and now not only does Reaper have problems but there appears no support?

The problem with that is: your issue is (for now) happening on your machine only and for all involved parties, it's doesn't seem to be a known problem and also the package is pretty new. I'm sorry that an unfortunate situation like this can come up, but we don't know how the licenser error gets triggered and the ones who could (perhaps) help you troubleshooting this in a more targeted way, currently don't want to support it when you use REAPER and the rest wishes they could stop by and lay hands on your computer and have to poke around a lot in the dark instead.

Also, support sent you to the forums because whenever such obscure things happen, you want to have as many experienced brains as possible thinking up ways to troubleshoot this from a distance, and all the gathered information (with conveniently embedded pics if need be etc.) and questions already asked at one place for everyone to see. I'm sorry that you end up with that as your best bet but that's the best help we can offer with this.