split from https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/1-3-12-hangs-on-start-then-crashes-revised/17021/19
Old thread but the same thing is happening to me in 2012.
Are you using the current 2.0.2? See Audacity > About Audacity.
Do you require help solving this problem? Is it a problem with Waves plug-ins hanging Audacity, or do you not know the reason? If it was the Waves problem, thanks for confirming you still have the issue.
If you need help, please try the steps in this post in the topic you posted to:
https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/1-3-12-hangs-on-start-then-crashes-revised/17021/13 .
If that does not help, please attach a crash report. See here:
http://guides.macrumors.com/Submitting_a_crash_report .
Gale