Melda Production announced 8.0 update

Version 8.0 released today. As always, the update is free.

Yes, all updates and additions are free. It is not limited to the TotalBundle, when plug-ins are added to any bundle owners of that bundle get the new plug-ins for free. Owners of individual plug-ins get updates for free.

Wow, this is a MAJOR update for these plugins ... I like Melda's stuff, but never really cared for the GUIs.  Welp, this new version redoes all the GUIs and makes it very easy to configure them using various templates.  It's great!  Well done, Vojtech, and thanks for the heads-up, scook!
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 

Thanks.  Nice more colorful GUIs, or at least on some of them.

CPU usage is my primary complaint with Meldaproduction stuff, too. That and the sometimes-obtuse UIs. But in terms of bang for the buck, Melda's pretty hard to beat.
 
The free upgrades for life policy means a lot to me, since I bought the Meldaproduction stuff back when I was much more affluent than I am today! I was once a Voxengo fan, but stopped upgrading when it got too expensive to keep up.
 
Now the bad news, at least for me. I installed the version 8 update for MDynamicEQ and it's totally whacked. The plugin takes forever to initialize, comes up with a partial display and is then unresponsive. SONAR then hung when I tried to close the project (a nearly-empty test project).
 
Note that the version 8 install requires you to uninstall your existing Ver. 7 plugins and re-scan your VSTs. Theoretically, this should not impact existing projects because the new version uses the same CLSID and therefore looks like the same plugin to SONAR. Existing settings and automation should be preserved, and you do not have to re-authorize. These points I was able to verify.
 
Unfortunately, the update has broken every project that I've ever used this plugin in. Hopefully, uninstalling and reinstalling version 7 will fix me up. I'll do a little more experimentation first, though.

bitflipper
Note that the version 8 install requires you to uninstall your existing Ver. 7 plugins and re-scan your VSTs.

I didn't do this.  I selected the "Update" button instead of Uninstall and everything went pretty smoothly.  No problems with the new plugins here. 
 
I hope you get yours fixed ... I like the new GUIs a lot better. 
 
Cheers,
Eddie
 
 

So did you ever un-install 7 before you installed 8?
After you installed 8 and opened a plug did the setup screen appear that allows you to pick a style, colors, set window and text sizes?
 
I know it kept giving my win 7 x64 fits until I finally un-installed 7 then installed 8, now all works well with the 3 Melda plugs I have. I also have Sonar x3 set to scan when I open it and I am using the VST3 versions...

Looks like there is a reply on the Melda Forums about disabling the GPU. The reply is to a poster that is describing the same issue as bitflipper.

The solution was adding an xml file containing 
<GPU Enable="0"/>
to the folder containing the xml preset files. This prevents the GPU acceleration from initializing. It seems to be working just fine now.
 
It would be nice if he's able to figure out what the problem is because ver. 8 is more CPU-intensive than ver. 7. I opened a project that had 3 instances of MDynamicEQ. Under V7 I could enable the sonogram display on all three with no playback problems (~50% CPU), but under V8 the CPU meter jumped into the red and could not play back without dropouts if any of the sonograms were enabled.
 
Fortunately I don't use the sonogram often, but it can be handy for zeroing in on vocal resonances, which usually involve not just the fundamental but the first 3-4 frequencies of the harmonic series as well. The sonogram display makes it easy to see which ones are significant, and to precisely position dynamic filters over each of them.
 
FabFilter plugins are also GPU-accelerated, but they've never given me any trouble. 

See my edited post above - CPU usage is higher in Ver. 8, so it really could benefit from the GPU acceleration.