Crow Hill Your Black Friday Gift Is Here!

[Carl Ewing]

6 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

I think you missed my earlier post where I said:

I'm not objecting to installer/manager apps (when they do their job well). I would HATE, for instance, to have to either run installers or unZIP and copy the over 100 MeldaProduction plugins or even the 40 or so Kilohearts plugins I own, and that's not even considering authorizing all of them.

What I don't want, and don't see the need for, is plug-in installers that install constantly running services along with the plug-ins. I haven't run into any yet, but if I found a plug-in that wouldn't function without its company's service running, I'd uninstall it/them immediately. If by some chance I had paid for it, I'd demand that I be allowed to surrender the license and get a refund.

Ah yes - totally agree. Surprisingly, the only one that is always visibly running on my system is UA Connect. I guess iLok, but I only use the USB key (easier swapping between multiple systems).  And there's probably background services running for Waves, NI, etc. that I don't notice. Luckily, there are very few companies trying to force always-on processes / tray icons. However - I've never tried to run offline - curious how much stuff would break.

[kitekrazy]

53 minutes ago, Carl Ewing said:

Ah yes - totally agree. Surprisingly, the only one that is always visibly running on my system is UA Connect. I guess iLok, but I only use the USB key (easier swapping between multiple systems).  And there's probably background services running for Waves, NI, etc. that I don't notice. Luckily, there are very few companies trying to force always-on processes / tray icons. However - I've never tried to run offline - curious how much stuff would break.

 You would be surprised.  

Many of them don't use any resources.   

When offline sometimes iLoks gives you a message and for it to go away just take out the dongle and put it back in.

[Colin Nicholls]

On 11/29/2025 at 4:53 PM, Colin Nicholls said:

 

Bum. I had no idea. I love Crow Hill both as a company (respect for Mr Henson and what he does) but I had no idea the app needed the service, although I had my suspicions that "something was up" because every time I come out of Standby/Sleep on my DAW, that fricken' Crow Hill App is running and I KNOW I closed it.

I'm going to try disabling the service and see if that app starts itself up again by itself.     DISAPPOINTED! </hercules>

It made no difference. The App still appeared this afternoon, coming out of sleep.

I've raised a "request" under the Support page of the Crow Hill Company web page, with my complaint. I'll post back here if I get any clarity on what is going on.