Well, in case you just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mavericks (like we did ;-) ) and your Waves plugins don’t behave as expected a new installation of Waves could make sense, but first things first. A proper uninstallation does not always work entirely well with Waves’ uninstaller. So in case something goes wrong, follow these steps for manual uninstallation:
1. Delete the main Waves folder
Continue reading this article to learn about the proper methods for uninstalling Waves. Manually uninstall Waves step by step: Most applications in Mac OS X are bundles that contain all, or at least most, of the files needed to run the application, that is to say, they are self-contained. @nebulon5'Can I install a driver THAT ISN'T REALTEK and will NOT HAVE WAVES MAXXAUDIO as it's main audio manager, when I install a fresh Windows 10?' You can switch from the Realtek/Waves driver to the Windows native audio driver. The native driver does not have the Waves software. You might find that some functionality is lost lost with the native driver, and the audio quality might not be.
located at /Applications.
2. Delete the Waves Preferences folder
located at /Users/Your User/Library/Preferences
3. Delete the Waveshell files from these locations:
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/Library/Application Support/Digidesign/Plug-Ins
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/MAS
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3
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4. Empty Trash
5. You may reinstall NOW ;-)