You know.. I thought I'd check out the Waldorf Largo... and

Linear Phase · Post by **Linear Phase** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:19 am

So.. I just bothered to check out the Waldorf Largo demo. I filled out my info on the Waldorf Website and I downloaded the installer. During the install I noticed two things.

A: This is not yet 64 bit.
B: That elicenser is overly aggressive stuff. Like pace or whatever. So I passed.

Its true.. Software companies do loose sales, if they make their license protect too aggressive! Native Instruments Service Center, and IK's Authorize are about as far from key file as I want to go.

Actually.. A great example is Nomad Factory.. I own a license to one of their mix packs. I forget which one, but I bought the license in 07, and their licenses can not be transferred. So now, five years later, and a couple of computers down the road.. I'm out my money.. I refuse to install pace on this brand new computer of mine. Obviously, I will never shop at Nomad Factory again.

But even funnier is recently, I bought Z3ta 2.0, without even thinking about it. Sugar-bytes! One of my favorite plug in companies. Ableton, Renoise, Reaper! All the software I am using, has very reasonable license protection schemes!

I understand, its very important for software makers, to know who their paying customers are. Its also important for paying customers to use the software they pay for, without interference of a crazy protection scheme.

jer_mcclain · Post by **jer_mcclain** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:39 pm

Yeah the copy protection on the Largo definitely kept me away. Another bad one is fxpansion, you have to pay $50 to transfer the license. I just recently got away from them. A good one though is Audio Damage, copy protection is just a serial number, no unlocks or anything and the license transfer is done by the owner in the owners account, no need to even bother with support.

Linear Phase · Post by **Linear Phase** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 10:47 pm

paraclude wrote:Another bad one is fxpansion, you have to pay $50 to transfer the license. I just recently got away from them.

So I take it, your synth squad is gone? I'm demoing synth squad right now. I'm not sure if its worth it. I saw you had it for sale... You were unhappy with it? What bothered you about it? Beside the transfer...

cheers

jer_mcclain · Post by **jer_mcclain** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:17 pm

Its hard to describe but I didn't like the interface much, and the sound was ok on strobe and amber. I guess I really bought it for cypher as I liked the sound. One of those things where I didn't spend enough time with the demo and bought it on impulse. Once I bought Diva and ACE, DCAM sat around awhile and I got rid of it yesterday. But it comes down to personal preference so I don't really have anything helpful to add.

Linear Phase · Post by **Linear Phase** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 11:39 pm

paraclude wrote:But it comes down to personal preference so I don't really have anything helpful to add.

Hey that's all good. Hey, I followed you on tumblr yesterday.. mine's harmonickraze lol

I'm doing the Diva demo right now too. Dive and Synth Squad? Its a coin toss for sound quality, fatness, overall quality. Personal preference I totally agree.

twisted-space · Post by **twisted-space** » Tue May 01, 2012 10:26 am

Linear Phase wrote:Actually.. A great example is Nomad Factory.. I own a license to one of their mix packs. I forget which one, but I bought the license in 07, and their licenses can not be transferred. So now, five years later, and a couple of computers down the road.. I'm out my money.. I refuse to install pace on this brand new computer of mine. Obviously, I will never shop at Nomad Factory again.

Nomad factory no longer use pace, see this.

Linear Phase · Post by **Linear Phase** » Tue May 01, 2012 6:52 pm

twisted-space wrote:
Linear Phase wrote:Actually.. A great example is Nomad Factory.. I own a license to one of their mix packs. I forget which one, but I bought the license in 07, and their licenses can not be transferred. So now, five years later, and a couple of computers down the road.. I'm out my money.. I refuse to install pace on this brand new computer of mine. Obviously, I will never shop at Nomad Factory again.

Nomad factory no longer use pace, see this.

That's interesting. I'm going to look into that! Thanks

LoopStationZebra · Post by **LoopStationZebra** » Tue May 01, 2012 8:09 pm

Do any of those companies have cool logos?

I only purchase products from companies that have cool logos.

Thank you.

twisted-space · Post by **twisted-space** » Wed May 02, 2012 11:44 am

LoopStationZebra wrote:I only purchase products from companies that have cool logos.

For some strange reason, that doesn't suprise me.

LoopStationZebra · Post by **LoopStationZebra** » Wed May 02, 2012 1:03 pm

twisted-space wrote:
LoopStationZebra wrote:I only purchase products from companies that have cool logos.

For some strange reason, that doesn't suprise me.

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