However, you shouldn't need to open the waves shell first then the plug in, its possible to just click on the plug in name and it will open itself up automatically. If your waves shell shows all of your plug ins you're good.
My waves shell only opened studio rack, which was a pain in the ass to use all my plug-ins through. I don't fully understand why or how it works, but waves didn't work with fl for a long time until fairly recently (not sure when) To fix this, they created a 'waves shell' that you need to open up your plug ins with. The main issue with FL studio is that sometimes the plug in scanning is programmed to combine 32 and 64 bit versions and vst and vst3 - make sure these are unchecked when scanning the plug ins. I want to thank each of the 305 viewers and the lone replier (me) to my thread for the support on my journey as I have figured out once in for all what was wrong with the waves plug ins not opening correctly.
