Waves 1.6.1

Waves 1.6.1 build 15 is a maintenance release: it makes Waves coexist
correctly with Elgato Wave Link regardless of which Wave Link generation is
installed, and cleans up internal structure without changing behavior.

Added

• Choose Waves or Elgato Wave Link as the ordinary per-app audio controller
  while both apps remain open. Changes persist and rebuild routes immediately.
• Disable Wave Link compatibility when using a custom routing workaround. This
  bypasses all Wave Link-specific ownership and mixed-output safeguards.

Fixed

• Treat verified active Wave Link output as a global single-owner boundary,
  including idle apps and browser or Electron helper processes, so Waves never
  leaves a second renderer attached and doubles audio.
• Let Waves send per-app volume and mute changes through a dedicated Wave Link
  software channel, with read-back confirmation and no fallback renderer when
  Wave Link cannot guarantee independent control.
• Verify that Wave Link's signed Elgato process owns the loopback control port
  before sending any app or channel command.
• Discover Wave Link 3's per-launch control port from its published
  ws-info.json, falling back to the documented scan range, and accept the
  interface revision current Wave Link 3 releases actually report.
• Recognize legacy Wave Link 1.x and 2.x installs, which use a different
  bundle identifier, so they receive the same monitoring-only protection
  against duplicate audio. The control bridge stays Wave Link 3-only and
  fails closed for older generations.
• Serialize Wave Link bridge writes and close the control socket after each
  sequence, so rapid volume drags cannot interleave replies or leave Wave
  Link out of sync with what Waves reports.
• Yield a stale bridge result when Wave Link quits while a change is in
  flight and Waves reclaims the route, so a live Waves route is never
  mislabeled as Wave Link-managed.
• Keep Wave Link settings changes from claiming untouched or excluded apps
  when the conflict later clears.
• Refuse boost, equalizer, and output-routing changes for Wave Link-managed
  apps instead of reporting them applied.
• Stop reporting apps such as Zoom as managed when Wave Link can send a parallel
  copy around the Waves route. Compatibility mode now yields the route, while
  the explicit compatibility opt-out remains available for custom routing.
• Request Wave Link's cryptographic signing metadata when verifying its live
  process, allowing compatibility mode to recognize the signed router reliably.
• Keep onboarding primary button labels legible by removing a second
  onboarding-wide accent tint from the already themed setup flow.
• Keep local builds working on machines with either supported macOS 26 SDK
  layout.

Changed

• Split the two largest source files (the app store and the audio backend)
  into focused per-responsibility files with no behavior change.
• Documented the Wave Link loopback control connection, its code-signature
  verification, and the opt-in control socket in the privacy and security
  policies.