N-Track/Waves not playing nice

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I just picked up the Native Power Pack V3 and have N-Track Version 3.2 (the latest), I had no problems authorizing Waves, but whenever I have a plug-in on a TRACK, I have problems with that song file - Whenever I open the *.sng file, I get "Unable to read plug-in" type error, and then when I try playing the song, I get "Unable to open source" type errors (I'm at work now, so I don't remember the exact errors), I can sometimes get it to play after clearing off a few dialogs, but it still crashes and is very unstable. The weird part is that I have no such problems with plug-ins on the master channel, any aux channels, or groups. So my work around is to send each track to it's own group, and then put the effect(s) on the group, a little inconvienent/pain-in-the-neck, but a workable workaround for now. Also, it seems that when working with a group rather than a track, that it was distorting/overloading quite easily - I was listening to a synth cello and futzing with the Q4 EQ. I might have been overdoing it, but it seemed like the signal was somewhat degraded once I sent it to a group (I also might just be hearing things!)
My system is a Dell PIII 450mHz, 256M RAM, Windows 98.
Any ideas? Thanks!

-Evan
 
Problem Solved!

Someone on the fasoft discussion board suggested that I expand the tracks to stereo, since Waves seems to have a problem with mono tracks (at least on N-Track), so last night I removed all the groups and stuck the plug-ins (usually the Q10 and C1) directly on each stereo track. All my old stuff sounds sooo much better than before! (previously was using blue-line plug-ins).
Later!
-Evan
 
I've been having the same problem. Tried it on 2 different systems with the same results. I could load up the plugins fine on the first time - but once I saved and opened the file again, it gives me the same errors, and won't let me use any waves plugins. Of course, if I open a new file, I can once again use them.

I tried Sonar to see if it had the same problem, but there was no prob with Sonar. I also tried different versions of n-track - no difference.

Thanks for the work around tip though - I was about to go back to waves 2.5.
 
I tried the waves 3.2 demo, and it doesn't seem to have this problem.
 
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