UAD 1176 freebie

[MusicMan]

6 hours ago, kitekrazy1 said:

I've stopped installing anything UAD since you have no control over their app.  Sure you could delete it and still install their stuff.  Their connect app has no options and starts up with Windows.  BTW it is a complaint among users.   I prefer not to deal with them. There's no shortage of 1176 emulations.

I do agree with boycotting companies that don't listen to customers, so I agree there and that's the best way to get them to change. This type of software doesn't need to be running all the time.

I have the UA Signature bundle, so I do have them installed in this case though.

Instead of uninstalling Connect, I just rename the exe to "disConnect". That way nothing autostarts as the system doesn't find the file it's looking for and I can still easily run it if I want to.

[Fleer]

38 minutes ago, mibby said:

…and how are you liking the Mk3?

Now if I only could get to unboxing it …

[kitekrazy1]

22 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

It's now become something to consider when deciding whether to buy (or keep in the case of freebies) software: how much crap does the installer shovel vs. the thing I actually want to use?

I don't mind installing installation managers, but I won't allow services that aren't needed by the plug-in.

The whole point of free stuff seems to buy into an eco system.  Many of them often require iLok.   I bought my first iLok when Line 6 offered Amp Farm free. 

I don't install the free Waves anymore.   

[Brian Walton]

22 hours ago, Promidi said:

Even with Freebies, one has to decide if you really need it. 

In my case, my final decision to pass on the UAD 1176 freebie hinged on the fact that I have IK Multimedia’s Black 76 (part of Tracks 5) and Arturia’s Comp FET-76 (Both emulations of the The 1176 compressor).

I like the IKM one, but for a lot of people that don't own the whole suite (I own most of it), the fact it requires you to download an insanely large install just to run what you do have might be enough to make someone take the UAD freebie and deal with ilok.  

[Starship Krupa]

15 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

I like the IKM one, but for a lot of people that don't own the whole suite (I own most of it), the fact it requires you to download an insanely large install just to run what you do have might be enough to make someone take the UAD freebie and deal with ilok.  

Oh that T RackS installer. If you don't have T Racks MAX you are blessed with demo (unregistered) versions of every plug-in you don't already own.

If you delete them, the next time you get a T RackS license you'll have to run the installer all over again, at which time they'll all be back. So instead of deleting the demo versions, I created a T RackS bullpen folder and move them to it. If I get a license for one of them, I copy it back to the VST3 folder and register it.

[Brian Walton]

10 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

Oh that T RackS installer. If you don't have T Racks MAX you are blessed with demo (unregistered) versions of every plug-in you don't already own.

If you delete them, the next time you get a T RackS license you'll have to run the installer all over again, at which time they'll all be back. So instead of deleting the demo versions, I created a T RackS bullpen folder and move them to it. If I get a license for one of them, I copy it back to the VST3 folder and register it.

All good ideas/process but still requires that beast of an installer (and the repeat of that installer every time they update).  

 

I've got most of them but just seems like a massive disc space waste as I honestly only use a few of them.

[Starship Krupa]

7 hours ago, Brian Walton said:

All good ideas/process but still requires that beast of an installer (and the repeat of that installer every time they update).  

I've got most of them but just seems like a massive disc space waste as I honestly only use a few of them.

They fulfill my desire to have emulations of classic hardware on hand. Their UI's are so pretty.

Also, not mentioned often but important to me is that most of them can switch into M/S mode.

It was actually their Fairchild 670 emulation that first lit my mid-side lightbulb. One of the presets is for master widening, and it sounds amazing, so I puzzled out how mid-side compression could enhance width. Since then, I've become very fond of mid-side processing in general.

[sjoens]

Installed it.  Played with it a bit.  Forgot about it till now.  Just put it in a project and Windows flagged it limiting some of it's functions.  Don't know if I did something wrong but It now loads with a blurry GUI.

[Promidi]

24 minutes ago, sjoens said:

Installed it.  Played with it a bit.  Forgot about it till now.  Just put it in a project and Windows flagged it limiting some of it's functions.  Don't know if I did something wrong but It now loads with a blurry GUI.

See:

https://help.uaudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/12613934267284-Troubleshooting-Native-UAD-Activation-Issues-and-Blurred-GUI

[sjoens]

Saw that.  Uninstalled and reinstalled the plugin.  Works now.  Probably a registry glitch caused by me.

BTW, the blurry GUI is a separate image that displays during startup for a brief moment. If something goes wrong during startup, it stays.

Edited Sunday at 01:06 PM by sjoens

[User 905133]

On 2/14/2025 at 11:49 AM, TheSteven said:

If you check in the iLok Manager - looks like most of their plugins (unless there's been a recent update that changes this) will only authorize to  iLok USB (2,3), or iLok Cloud.

Note that, as shown, authorizing with iLok1 or directly on your computer is disabled.

Trying to get and use the 1176  caused all my other UAD to have the Blurry Image Authorization issue, too.  In 4 or 5 years of using iLok, UAD's new authorization scheme is the only one I have had these kinds of issues with. One-by-one I did all of the steps in the video Promidi linked, pausing and double-checking after each step until I couldn't go any further. 

The next step is to try to find the uninstall/reinstall video mentioned, but honestly my other iLoked products work and I am leaning towards just getting rid of them all and chalking it up to a learning experience.  It is unlikely that I will ever get the time spent back, so why waste even more time.

If anyone has other UAD plugins that still work, you might want to consider not downloading/updating them and/or getting the 1176.

UPDATE: Since the first steps in the uninstall/reinstall video were not useful, I decided to use Revo Uninstaller (which I should have used first!).  Next, I looked for any additional UAD Folders and renamed them (just in case I wanted to report what I had there to UA Support). Then I redownloaded and reran the latest UAD Connect software (for the third time).

After downloading the plug-ins (probably the four or fifth time today), I decided to give up by removing them using Cakewalk's VSTScan. But first I wanted to see what would happen if I tried to load the UAD test project.

To my surprise, I no longer got the Open UAD Connect pop-up. Then when I went to the FX Bin to open the plugs, they each opened to the blurry image and in about 1-2 seconds the image stabilized and one-by-one each plugin worked. (I didn't have to rescan using VSTScan.)

Lesson Learned: If at first you don't succeed, give up, get rid of the software using a tool like Revo Uninstaller, try starting over, and then maybe whatever got screwed up will have fixed itself.    

Edited Sunday at 06:37 PM by User 905133
Added an update

[Tianzii]

On 2/14/2025 at 2:19 PM, mibby said:

If you already own it, UAD gives you a 10% coupon in your cart. 

What a weird way to treat your customers. The ones who got them for free can activate the plugins on their machines and use them offline, while the customers who paid for them, can only activate them using cloud activation and have to be always online. It happened to me with the past free offer for Pure Plate Reverb, and I’m never going to buy any other UAD plugin until I have the ones I’ve bought available for machine activation like all these freebies. I’ll always choose the machine activation instead of the 10% coupon.

Edited 15 hours ago by Tianzii