Crashing at Startup with Waves AU

Question

I am crashing at startup with the waves plug ins. My system was fine before I started using Audio Units Manager. After that Logic will crash. So I trashed the prefs. trashed Audio Unit Manager and re installed the waves plugins and the waveshell AU driver from a fresh download. Still no luck. I used to work fine when I dragged the AU plug ins to another folder to use FCP then drag them back to the components folder to use Logic. How can I fix this?? - Thanks
BTW- Logic boots fine if I keep the waves stuff out of the components folder

Answer 1

When you say "Audio Units Manager" are you talking about Logic's AU Manager, or some third party application? Is it the Granted Software one?
If so, my versions of Waves 5 work well with them both. All that the Granted AU Manager does is move the component files (ie the Waveshell) between two directories to enable or disable the plugins, it won't affect Waves crashing at all.
Without knowing what you did when things stopped working it's difficult to say, but it may well be a Waves installation, copy protection or authorisation issue, they can be notoriously odd behaving sometimes.
Incidentally, why do you need two Waveshells? I think Logic only supports one of Waves' Waveshells at a time, at least it did in Logic 5, not sure about later ones.
Not sure what else to suggest, really...