Melda Update!

This is pretty major. I'm a chicken, so I'll wait until the "b" comes off the version number before I update my most important plugins. But early reports are that this is a really good update - improved performance and improved UIs! Plus an improved installer that'll make it easier for those of us with many Melda plugs to update them.
 
Also, some interesting enhancements to my favorite Melda plugs, including MSpectralDynamics, MDynamicEQ, MAutoVolume and MMultiAnalyzer. I'm looking forward to this update.
 

Yeah, I'm a chicken also...
 
I'm not doing a lot with the laptop right now so I may get a good image and go for the 9.00b2 install. I really would like to see how the new installer handles things plus the improved UI's might increase my usage of some of the plugins.
 
When I lose my feathers I'll post back with some observations.

Be careful with the installer. I now have all of them installed. That sucks. I hate the multiinstaller.

There was some discussion on the Melda forum about confusion when selecting./de-selecting products in the installer. Apparently, a black square means it's selected, which many will find counter-intuitive. I haven't used the new installer yet, so that's just what I've read.

bitflipper
There was some discussion on the Melda forum about confusion when selecting./de-selecting products in the installer. Apparently, a black square means it's selected, which many will find counter-intuitive. I haven't used the new installer yet, so that's just what I've read.

The installer selects all of them by default first opening.

I don't own the Total Bundle just 16 separate plugins from different bundles.
 
- So if I select only the Plugs I have licenses for will they remain licensed or does the Beta plugs time out in 15 days?
 
- Also, I assume the Beta will replace the 8.10 versions?

Thank You gswitz.

Love the New installer! It saved me a bunch of time!! Great Job Vojtech!!!
 
The UI's are looking good also but I did encounter a few quirks while setting them up. I can already tell that I will be getting much more use out of these plugs.

I'm generally not a fan, either. But this one will be a nice convenience for me because I have many Melda products and updates are frequent. Ideally, customers would be given a choice between all-at-once and individual installers, but nobody's ever gone to that trouble, AFAIK. 
 
I'm just guessing here, but there may be another reason for implementing this installation method. I'm thinking that Vojtech may have pulled common code out of the plugins and moved it into a shared runtime library. This would substantially reduce each plugin's size, and would make it easier to implement his new chainer Mxxx (still in beta). Just a guess. At least, that's what I would have done.

Smooth enough except for not paying attention to the install options on the right side the first time around. Everything installed and that is not something I wanted. I cleaned that up on a second attempt (after cleaning the melda folders) by first clicking the deselect all button. Next I selected the free bundle button and then the individual plugs I have licenses for...  I like the installer just fine now.

OK, you guys convinced me to take a chance and install the 9.0 beta.
 
The download was a whopping 112 MB, quite large compared to most effects updates that are typically only 1-5 MB. However, it's still smaller than the 150 MB I usually download when Melda has an update. (It would be a greater advantage if I kept the free pack up-to-date, but I don't.)
 
Installation was not difficult, but it could be friendlier.
 
For example, it would be nice if the installer, instead of automatically selecting "ALL", would check to see what's already installed and just select those products by default. There are already shortcuts for selecting bundles, he could add one that says "Currently Installed". I still have to stop and think "now which ones do I have again?"
 
Also, the new installer did not preselect my previous plugin path, which would have resulted in duplicates had I not noticed. It put in "\program files\vstplugins\meldaproduction" as the default, when the old installer would have remembered that I use \program files\cakewalk\vstplugins\meldaproduction".
 
I ran a re-scan. Although that's not usually necessary for Melda stuff, I always do it anyway. I then brought up an existing project that had several Melda plugins in it. They all came up fine and remembered their previous settings, which was a relief.
 
Nice enhancement to MAutoDynamicEQ, adding attack/release/threshold to the expanded "Bands" section. I also noticed a CPU Benchmark feature under Settings - that's new, I think.
 

BTW, even though the new installer doesn't pick up settings from the previous installer, you only have to enter them once, as subsequent invocations do remember the previous selections and paths. Just be careful the first time you run it, and the next time you update it should be a quick click-through process.

Not seeing that here. Could be something specific to your graphics card. See if the problem goes away after disabling GPU acceleration and restarting SONAR. That'll be a helpful clue when you report it to Vojtech.

Well Bit, as usual, you were right on! Disabling the GPU acceleration fixed the issue and I can't make it happen now.
 
I will still let Vojtech know that issue and a couple other UI customization issues exist but I'm sure that stuff would be pretty low on the pole right now... 

The good news is you'll only have to do that once. Next time, it'll remember which plugins you selected last time.