Preventing UAD Meter & Control Panel launching at boot?

[James Steele]

I went into library>audio>plug-ins>components and deleted some of those unauthorized (why are they even there?) plug-ins. I haven't gotten back to determine if that is a good method or not yet.

It works. I guess the reason UA does this is they're thinking you might want to activate the 14-day demo on some of these plugins. I have done what you've done with the AAX plug-in versions because I don't know if there's a way to just "turn them off" like in DP and I don't want my plug-in menu cluttered with plugs I can't use. But it irritates me when developers do this.

Likewise, IK Multimedia seems to install a whole ton of plugs in some cases. I find myself avoiding these developers as I really don't want a lot of junk on my system. IK even archives complete installers on your boot drive without telling you, and I've gone in and manually deleted those. Again... annoys me to no end.

[James Steele]

Looks like we no longer have to hack the plist file anymore in Ventura. You can just turn it off now:

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[James Steele]

Also I made a post about a utility that makes the job easier of hiding the UAD plugs that you do not own.

https://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=73020

The only caveat is that although it archives the VST and AAX versions and can restore them later without the need to run the UAD installer, it apparently deletes the Audio Units versions... at least on my system. I'm engaged in a discussion with the developer about this. Of course he says it shouldn't be happening, but it is indeed on my system, so I'm at the "gathering evidence" phase. You have to first convince a developer that what you're experiencing is real. It's a free utility, so I appreciate that he's done this at all.

Anyway... the fact that they are deleted doesn't really bother me that much. It will get fixed and if I want to do a demo for something I don't own, I have the UA installer backed up on another drive anyway.

[ggm1960]

Very nice, Thanks James!

[James Steele]

Very nice, Thanks James!

Hopefully the utility still works. I know UA released an update. There are issues with UADx AUs and DP right now. Usually trying to validate them causes lots of crashes and if you can persevere and get though the crashing, they will work okay after that. Alternatively you can try using VST3 versions of the UADx plugs instead.