Plug-in Updates Sticky Topic

[James Steele]

3.5.7 this morning

Man those APU guys just crank out the updates like nobody's business!

[James Steele]

Kontakt 8 updated to 8.3

Release Notes Version 8.3.0 2025-03-31
Minimum OS requirements: macOS 13, 14, and 15 (latest update), Windows 10 or 11 (latest Service Pack).

OVERALL CHANGES.
ADDED - Support for Kontrol S MK3 version 1.9.2
ADDED - Data tracking for product instantiation/load time
FIXED - Unselected Instrument disappears when loading an additional Instrument that cannot be found
FIXED - Crash in Davinci Resolve
FIXED - Incorrect Save options shown when saving new user presets for Leap
FIXED - Command+N shortcut creates new Leap in Default View
FIXED - Miscellaneous Instrument display issues

BUILDER CHANGES.
ADDED - Four American-inspired passband filters (from Monark)
ADDED - Dual Japanese inspired Sallen-Key Filters
FIXED - Ladder filter types produce glitchy artifacts under modulation due to incorrect parameter smoothing

[James Steele]

Carbon Copy Cloner updated to Version 7.1

I know not an audio app or plugin, but many of us use this so sharing here.

New
For Sonoma and Sequoia users, CCC now offers an option to set a custom icon on locally-attached source and destination volumes. Select an image of your own, or get creative with Apple's new Image Playground. Click on CCC's Source or Destination selector to find the new "Set custom icon" options. Apple's Image Playground requires an Apple Silicon Mac that supports Apple Intelligence and macOS Sequoia 15.2 or later.

New
This version of CCC embraces new macOS functionality that allows us to avoid installing the CCC helper tool into Macintosh HD > Library > PrivilegedHelperTools. The helper tool will be "registered" with macOS, but will remain inside of the CCC application bundle. This new practice resolves a long list of complications that have arisen over the years with the legacy LaunchDaemon configuration as Apple has improved macOS platform security.

New
Full Disk Access is no longer required separately for CCC's helper tool. CCC's coaching around this procedure has been updated to reflect the new requirement. No changes are required for current CCC installations.

New
CCC offers new UI in Settings > Advanced to specify the authorization requirements for a variety of CCC activities. For example, you may wish to require an admin user for CCC task changes, but allow non-admin users to start/stop tasks. Now you can configure that with ease in Advanced Settings.

Changed
The Snapshot Comparison Browser search field now supports wildcard and regular expression searches.

New
CCC Dashboard's "Suspend all tasks" dialog now offers a date picker option for those cases where the pre-set intervals are not flexible enough.

Changed
In the Tasks tab of the CCC Dashboard application, the "Defer…" option is now available for any scheduled task even when that task is not running. This allows the user to proactively defer a task before its scheduled run time rather than having to wait until the task is actually running.

Changed
If a task is configured to restart or shut down the system "after a 60 second delay", that delay will no longer be applied when the screen is locked. In those cases macOS will not present the restart/shutdown dialog at all, so CCC proceeds directly to the request instead. This does not affect the fate of unsaved documents. If an application requires attention before it can quit, that application will cancel the restart/shutdown request even if the screen is locked.

Fixed
Fixed a logic issue in the Dashboard that was causing the "Shutdown if previously off" feature to not work.

New
Spotlight will now be disabled on the destination by default when selecting the option to use a destination volume exclusively for the CCC task in the Backup Volume Setup Assistant. Users can also select a volume in the sidebar and disable (or re-enable) Spotlight via a switch. This change will hopefully address the interference that Spotlight and its mediaanalysisd buddy are causing with regard to unmounting CCC destination volumes.

New
Added an option to the ccc command-line utility to perform snapshot thinning and pruning on a specified volume according to its current Snapshot Retention Policy.

Changed
Improved the recapturing of space savings on the destination when files have been duplicated on the source (e.g. in the Finder).

Changed
The macOS Installer Media Assistant now requests 20GB when "borrowing" space for installer media. This accommodates the larger requirement for macOS Sequoia 15.3.1.

Changed
The "Legacy Bootable Copy Assistant" functionality is now merged into the Backup Volume Setup Assistant.

Changed
When a task is configured to make a legacy bootable copy of the source, the task is no longer automatically converted to a "Standard Backup" configuration after the cloning procedure has completed. When you subsequently run the task again, CCC will erase the destination and repeat the legacy bootable copy procedure.

Changed
The "Present an alert dialog for reminders" Dashboard setting is now only applied to reminders, not to "Prompt before proceeding" task prompts.

Changed
The "MobileSoftwareUpdate" folder is now hidden by default on the destination. This folder is technically not hidden at the root of the startup disk, but it's not exposed via a firmlink, and it exists exclusively on the Data volume, so it effectively does not appear in the Finder.

Changed
Build 8132 addresses a regression around the handling of large sparse files when determining whether there is enough free space for a file. It also addresses an edge case in which CCC would request that the user grant full disk access to CCC despite that it was already granted.

[James Steele]

UAD-2/Apollo Software Updated to 11.6.0 - April 1, 2025

Version 11.6.0 — April 1, 2025

Apollo X Series and Apollo X Series Gen 2 Improvements
• All speaker utilities are now available for desktop models
• Mute/solo/trim and metering features are now available for subwoofer output
• Apollo x16D clocking improvements in multi-unit configurations

Compatibility Changes
• Support for newest DAWs
• LUNA 1.8
• Logic Pro 11.1
• Ableton Live 12.1
• Cubase 14
• Pro Tools 2024.10
• macOS Big Sur 11, Monterey 12, Ventura 13, Sonoma 14, and Sequoia 15 are compatible
• Windows 10 and 11 are compatible
• FireWire connections to Apollo and UAD-2 Satellite are no longer compatible

Other Changes
• Support for new UAD Console v1.2.2 features
• New browser for plug-ins and channel presets
• New speaker utilities options
• New open session progress bar
• New show/hide faders option
• New sub output meter when bass management enabled in stereo mode
• Apollo cue output assignments are now saved automatically
• Various minor fixes and improvements

[James Steele]

ADAM Audio A-Control updated to 1.1.1

This looks pretty significant including a firmware update I guess. I have A77Hs, so I'll see if those get the firmware update after I update A-Control.

https://www.adam-audio.com/en/a-control ... hange-log/

Release notes

System Requirements
From MacOS 13 to MacOS 15
Windows 10, Windows 11

A Control 1.1.1 ships with the latest firmware version “M4R2”.

FIXED Sporadic behavior of amplifier Input selector (Firmware)
FIXED A Control could not start on Windows if username contains special characters

[James Steele]

Guitar Pro 8 updated

https://www.guitar-pro.com/c/14-guitar-pro-features

Release Notes - 8.1.4

Audio
• Improves playback continuity when plugging/unplugging devices on macOS
• LSB / MSB are now applied on the correct Sound in MIDI

Tools
• Fixes the folding of sound detail widgets
• Fixes on automation positions in the Sound Automation Dialog
• Fixes the name recognition on several chords

Import / Export

Guitar Pro 5:
• Fingerings are now correctly exported
• Transitions (bend/slide/hammer) are now correctly exported on grace notes

MusicXML:
• Improves the export of harmonies
• Fixes a freeze on importing a file with more than 5 different voices on the same XML staff
• “slash” attributes are now correctly handled

PDF:
• Fixes the %h placeholder of the PDF export

Crashes
• Fixes miscellaneous crashes

[James Steele]

MiniMeters updated to 0.8.25

https://minimeters.app/

0.8.25 - Bug Fixes
Released: Mar 27, 2025

This update is free for existing users.
Bug Fixes:

General: If MiniMeters is closed while settings is still open, MiniMeters will save the correct size as expected.
Linux: Now building against the correct glibc version. MiniMeters should now work as expected on Pop!_OS.
Spectrogram: Fixed issue where the frequency and pitch reported by left-clicking and holding on the Spectrogram was incorrect.
Windows: Fixed crash when OpenGL Drivers were not found on the system.

A note from Joe:
In all likelihood this is the final update of the 0.8.x tree in MiniMeters. v1.0 is approaching release candidate status with only a couple big ticket items left. Stay tuned!

[James Steele]

APU Software Updates

https://apu.software/download/

Release Notes
Version 3.5.8
Fix auto-range when thresholds disabled!

[James Steele]

McDSP RELEASES v7 UPDATE WITH ACCELERATED GRAPHICS
McDSP latest v7 release (v7.2.35) includes new Windows hardware accelerated graphics rendering for significant improvements in UI refresh performance and image quality. Now metering and RTAs are faster and more fluid. Text quality is also improved. Other updates for both Mac and Windows include bug fixes for Pro Tools, FL Studio, and support for the latest VST3 SDK.

The McDSP v7 release brings tons of new and exciting features to our entire line of software products, along with amazing high-definition user interfaces. For over two decades our award-winning double precision, zero latency algorithms have stood out from the crowd, and v7 continues this legacy, adding 1500+ additional presets, numerous new features, and two activations per license or subscription. All McDSP v7 plug-ins are also optimized for Apple silicon and the latest Intel processors (on both Mac and Windows).

This latest update is free to all v7 users. Just head to mcdsp.com to download these latest updates for Mac and Windows today.

McDSP’s latest v7 installers can be found at www.mcdsp.com/downloads/plugin-downloads/

[James Steele]

IK Multimedia Syntronik 2 updated to 2.1.3

What’s new in Syntronik 2.1.3:
Browser: fixed an issue with filter selection and mouse position.
Browser: fixed Filters section not responding to mouse wheel movements.
Effects: fixed size of Feedback parameter label in Digital Delay.
Effects: fixed inverted parameter in White 2A.
Installer: fixed Windows installer not working on virtual machines with ARM architecture.
Authorization: fixed an authorization issue on macOS, introduced with version 2.1.2
General reliability improvements.

[James Steele]

SSL Updates

Just ran SSL Download Manager. Looks like several plugs updated. Release notes for all of them (for me) say "Apple M4 Support' and that's it.

For me, the following are updated:

LMC+
X-Limit
X-Gate
Guitarstrip
Drumstrip
Vocalstrip 2

[James Steele]

A.O.M. Plugin Updates (including Invisible Limiter series)

https://aom-factory.jp/download/

Version 1.18.4 (2025-04-06)
Improvements
• [tranQuilizr] Reduce CPU load by around 14%.
• [tranQuilizr G2] Reduce CPU load by around 8% in Algorithm I to III.

Bug Fixes
• [VST3][CLAP] Projects saved with plugin v1.17.2 or earlier would have broken automation assignments when reopened with plugin v1.18.0 to v1.18.3. – fixed
• [macOS] High precision knob operation using shift + mouse wheel did not work properly. – fixed
• [Invisible Limiter G2][Nu Compressor][tranQuilizr] Fixed potential crash after opening/closing in-plugin panels. There is no real-world report about this issue.

[James Steele]

Vienna Synchron Player updated from v. 1.3.2148 to 1.3.2164

Update via Vienna Assistant app.

v1.3.2164, April 9th, 2025
Added
• Setting to disable Reverb for Studio Series Presets by loading a Mixer Preset without any Reverb and any additional processing (99 MIR Pro Unprocessed). This can also be applied to all avalane instances

Fixed
• Crash when playing quick pertormance runs in Free Violin Runs

[James Steele]

APU Software Updates

https://apu.software/download/

Release Notes
Version 3.5.9
Always show transfer function for alternate dynamics types (compressor)
Threshold rendering improvements

[James Steele]

Lunacy Audio CUBE updated to 1.6

I hadn't checked in on this in a while. I guess they don't send out email notifications. Last version I had was 1.5.10. Now up to 1.6.

https://lunacy.audio/downloads/