For anyone else moving to Ableton 12

[FrustratedFred]

Ableton 12 dropped today. I updated.

I've been deeply alarmed by a DRAMATIC increase in CPU demand, which left my computer fans permanently screaming like a Harrier Jumpjet.

After hours of troubleshooting, I found the problem: Moving to a new Ableton had broken the permission for UAD's mothercucking spyware to call home, so it was freaking the feck out, demanding 99% cpu usage.

I've now repaired that permission and everything has now cooled down.

I regret buying UAD so much. The software is great. Their always-spying spyware is ridiculous.

 

[c3r1c]

Wait...how can updating to a newer version of software (i.e., Ableton 12) mess with the permissions of a completely different software (in this case, UAD(x))?

Unless the software you updated to (i.e., Ableton 12) did something very naughty to your file system and screwed up the permissions of stuff it isn't supposed to be touching?

This isn't about defending UA, but rather something that jumps out to me in your complaint that you might want to look more into. Why would installing something completely unrelated to UA make their software require a permissions fix for use with said newly installed software?