David MacNeill
Established Member
UA Connect loads every time I launch a Logic project with a native UA plug. It's driving me batshit crazy! How do I stop it? No other plugin maker intrudes on my workflow and my CPU cycles like this — WTF?
UA Connect is driving me batshit crazy!
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RogueM
Venerated Member
solution: UA Disconnect
I believe UA has to be running in the background to use xUAD plugins. But for some reason when you launch Logic, it opens Connect in the foreground displaying the main Connect window, which is annoying. This doesn't happen with PT and AAX. UA will startup in the background with the "UA" appearing in the upper right, but the app window doesn't open or appear in the dock.
David MacNeill
Established Member
I tried your Plugin Scanner and it did nothing at all.
RogueM
Venerated Member
sorry, I miss the point you are making here...
David MacNeill
Established Member
Obviously, I am saying that I lack confidence in your apps. I will try UA Disconnect, though, but two strikes and you're out.
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David MacNeill
Established Member
Ok, I take it back. UA Disconnect worked, my apologies. It is annoying that your utility has to exist at all, when UA could have made UA Connect so that it only ran at user-specified intervals of, say, once every two weeks. I can only imagine why they are being so intrusive and will not speculate publicly. I have the utmost respect for Universal Audio products, except when they deliberately get in the way of my work.
UniversalAudio
Official UA Representative
We obviously want you in UAC.
It is becoming our hub for plugins, firmware updates, videos and other content/resources moving forward. So it makes sense to build it out with this in mind.
David MacNeill
Established Member
Understood. But does it really have to run all the dang time? Every two weeks should be plenty, and I should have the option to stay as up-to-date and/or informed as I please, or not. I already have UAD Meter & Control Panel running all the time and Console as needed. Why not make UA Connect a checkbox feature of UAD Meter & Control Panel and make UA Connect optional?
UniversalAudio
Official UA Representative
close the window (hide not quit) and it's gone.
David MacNeill
Established Member
You mean Hide stops sucking CPU? And it auto-relaunches every time I open any Logic project with UA Native plugs, which I do a dozen times a day.
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UniversalAudio
Official UA Representative
That does not happen here. I can close the UAC window (not quit) and freely go from session to session and it doesn't pop up.
David MacNeill
Established Member
Doesn’t answer my question, does it? It’s a startup process that requires CPU cycles and memory, and I don’t want or need it.
UniversalAudio
Official UA Representative
If you want to use our native plugins, you need it.
David MacNeill
Established Member
Why? Marketing? What is the technical reason?
David MacNeill
Established Member
Do your “native” plugs phone home to remember how to emulate a Distressor or a Neve pre?
Look, if it’s just DRM with intent to lock us in, say so.
UniversalAudio
Official UA Representative
See post #8
David MacNeill
Established Member
Looping argument, man. I can check in from time to time on my schedule, not UAs. I said so in post #9.
David MacNeill
Established Member
If UA cannot show a demonstrable technical need for UA Connect to be running in order to use UA Native plugs, then only DRM and/or marketing is the reason.
Deleted-2746
Active Member
It even prevents me me to use the native plugins i OWN on an offline PC although I have the plugins on the PC and the licences on the iLok because it wants to go online although the licences are on the local iLok stick.
Disgusting.
Disgusting.