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I’m fine with keeping software around to occasionally dink around with, as long as it’s not interfering with the rest of my computer’s operation, but everything about Corel Painter interferes in insidious ways. And when I most recently launched it seeing if I could disable updates normally, it gave me the “Please upgrade so you don’t miss out on all the new features” splash screen all over again. Oh, also, while I’m ranting, another thing that left a bad taste in my mouth was that when I did try Corel Painter 2019 – which, as a reminder, I paid money for – all it did was try to upsell me to Corel Painter 2020, before I’d even given 2019 a try. That sure doesn’t seem troublesome at all, she ranted sarcastically. I also don’t know why this driver was only activated when I’d uninstalled Painter. Should anyone be happy with this? Absolutely nope. Do they say what’s done with the data? Nope. Which means that, in effect, Corel Painter is potentially listening to your entire computer audio while you’re using it.ĭo they disclose that it’s doing this? Nope. I’m sure there’s still some other bullshit lurking in my computer from this, and I am very unhappy about it.Īnd for the record, yes Corel Painter has some audio functionality (it has a “microphone dynamics” thing you can use to control the brush strokes with sound…? for some reason…?) but I never enabled it (or allowed Corel access to my microphone) and it certainly doesn’t need a sound driver to function! From what I can find online it’s a weird fork of SoundFlower which they use to make it so that you can use system audio to capture expressions. Which I had to uninstall with sudo kextunload -b sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Extensions/PainterAudioDriver.kext