They do have a pretty complicated system to avoid piracy, it's not just a simple dll file, the shell is very important and everything has to be done through Waves Central. Yeah I have to say in my 30+ years working with computers, that had to be one of the most annoying software purchases I've ever...

Hi, For some reason, Waves wraps its plugins in a shell. Mixcraft is "assuming" the shell-wrapped virtual instrument is an effect. We'll fix this issue in a future update, but for now, you can use a utility called Shell2VST to break the plugin out of its shell so that Mixcraft can recogni...

Gah... this is driving me nuts! :( I tried Shell2VST and after some fiddling with use of different folders, I managed to get it to the point where Electric88 appeared as an instrument in the selection list, but as soon as you select it Mixcraft would crash... hard. Such that when you reopened it, it...

Folks, I'm still evaluating Mixcraft but I'm *that close* to purchasing... I really like it! But there's one hiccup I've found: I bought Waves' "Electric88 piano" about a week ago, installed it on my music machine, a couple of other music programs I've tried (most notable Cantabile) seem t...