Then again, even Adobe has stated that piracy benefits their business, because it lets them remain the industry standard. I sent this article to the reFX customer service, and was told that the last time their copy protection was cracked, their sales dropped to a third (-66%). Categories Opinions Tags Ableton, eLicenser, Licensing, Native Instruments, Nexus 2, Software synth ReFX, if you’re listening, please come to your senses and move on to digital licensing. In the future, we will not buy any software synth that uses a USB eLicenser dongle. I think Ableton and Native instruments have a really good digital licensing system, that allows installation on a production computer and a live computer. We sure have much better use for the ports than a stupid license dongle.Īlmost all other software synth developers have moved on to digital licensing. Using an eLicenser USB dongle would take up 50% of the USB ports. In my previous rant about the poor state of the current MacBook Pro laptops, I mentioned that there are only two USB ports in the latest models. We already have a ton of live equipment, and the last thing we want to worry about is a little USB dongle. The eLicenser dongle is so small that it easily gets lost unless it’s attached to something. We have bought all the software we use in music production, so it would be a pity to have to resort to a pirated version. Too bad that there is not an up-to-date Mac release of Nexus 2. We even considered using a pirated version of Nexus 2, even though we have bought it – just to be able to use it without the dongle. It sucks that having a legitimate licence actually makes things more difficult than using pirated software. It makes no sense to be dependable on such an impractical, fragile and ultimately redundant device.
Our eLicenser dongle has already suffered some damage, and we’ve had to tape it back together. And while we’re at it, we might as well make the change permanent. If we don’t have the Nexus dongle with us on the road, the only way around it is to use other synths. It breaks easily, and if it breaks, there’s no backup system. The only reason for this is that we really can’t risk using a dongle while on the road. It’s a pity that we had to stop using it. It was straightforward and sounded great.
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