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Friday, March 03, 2006
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I betatested this great instrument
ReplyDeleteand while i see the nonsense of limiting potential customers not
having a syncrosoft dongle, i can understand their position
of protecting their product.
Many "native" time limited demo versions of commercial Plug Ins have been the sources for cracks.
Recent copy protection dongles like ilok and the syncrosoft system seem to have proven sort of succesful and are spreading. Manufacturers are sort of desperate i guess and don't seem to have too many working options against software piracy. Some manufacturers like Tc Electronic has even stopped their entire native product line of Vst Plug Ins in favor of a "hardware dongle" protected software platform (with DSP Power though).
Arturias Prophet Vs as such sounds awesome and if you never had the joys of owning a realy one it's a great emulation at a modest pricepoint with lots of features and a fantastic Gui. Together with the Access Virus (Powercore /TDM)it is actually the best VA i ever played -sofar.
That's crap. For a full product, a dongle is fine, but a demo?
ReplyDeleteSorry Arturia. If I can't try even a limited version for free like I can your other products, I'm not buying. Shame as the VS looked interesting.
Dongles dont work. They are simply a nuisance to legitimate users. I dont think that there has ever been a USB based dongle which hasnt been cracked. Why should users of pirated software have the convenience of being able to run a softsynth without a dongle (which takes up valuable USB real-estate) while legitimate users do not?
ReplyDeleteI can understand why a $10,000+ animation package could use a dongle, but why something like a softsynth where a user is HIGHLY likely to own more than one? Are people supposed to be limited to what softsynths they run by the number of USB ports their computers have? Total bullshit in my opinion.
mr. array, either you or i do not grasp the concept of the ilok and syncrosoft dongles. as far as i know, each dongle supports multiple application so you don't need one for each program (softsynth)
ReplyDeleteregardless of that minor point, dongles are still a pain in the port
At least on the Mac, their are a number of programs that use dongles that have not been cracked, including all Syncosoft dongled apps (Korg Legacy Digital, Cubase etc), Logic, Pro-Tools M-Powered and so on.
ReplyDeleteSo at least in some sense dongles do work. On a desktop machine, dongles are more or less invisible. Where they become a real pain is on laptops, especially when you need multiple dongles just to open a song...