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stardustmedia · Post by **stardustmedia** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:54 am

Heartfeltdawn wrote:Hmmmmm. Looks like I am going to have to get an iLok. Drat!

Soundtoys were the reason I got an iLok and I still hate them for that, although the plugins are great

Heartfeltdawn · Post by **Heartfeltdawn** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 11:34 am

Ordered. God, I'm finally going to be an iLok owner for about four weeks until Soundtoys 5 comes out

stardustmedia · Post by **stardustmedia** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 11:43 am

Heartfeltdawn wrote:Ordered. God, I'm finally going to be an iLok owner for about four weeks until Soundtoys 5 comes out

And you will still have iLok, you can just move it to your computer. But beware when your computer crashes

Kaboom75 · Post by **Kaboom75** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 1:17 pm

I wouldn't trust my licences on a hard drive with all those moving parts.

stardustmedia · Post by **stardustmedia** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 1:25 pm

Yup. Best is to have them on the dongle, plus ZDT and an extra spare dongle.

T-CM11 · Post by **T-CM11** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 2:22 pm

Kaboom75 wrote:I wouldn't trust my licences on a hard drive with all those moving parts.

I agree, but that shouldn't be a problem when using an SSD.

What I'm wondering; if I clean up my studio, I know where the dongle is - no chance of throwing it away by accident. But when I clean up my hard drive (e.g. reinstall Windows), where is that iLok soft licenser license file(s), to backup? And is it connected to the Windows installation and/or other hardware components? Or can it only be backed up via de-authorizing and re-authorizing? (if so, that would make it more like C/R - which I don't like!!- than like a dongle system...)

stardustmedia · Post by **stardustmedia** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 2:51 pm

Oh my dear, even SSDs can fail

T-CM11 · Post by **T-CM11** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:19 pm

deft_bonz wrote:Oh my dear, even SSDs can fail

Everything can fail, but at least SSDs don't fail from shaking.

stardustmedia · Post by **stardustmedia** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 3:35 pm

T-CM11 wrote:
deft_bonz wrote:Oh my dear, even SSDs can fail
Everything can fail, but at least SSDs don't fail from shaking.

Nope, that's way better with them.

Synthetic Wav · Post by **Synthetic Wav** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 6:24 pm

about ilok , just the sountoys free plugs are well worth the price of the key !

unguitar · Post by **unguitar** » Thu Nov 27, 2014 10:56 pm

Does anyone know if v5 will have a bypass or on/off switch on each single effect ?

hibidy · Post by **hibidy** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 1:23 am

Microshift is "ok" and it might be nice as a luxury plug but I don't think I'm going to do it. Might try echoboy. I know I did 100 years ago, can't remember what I did/didn't like about it.

AB69 · Post by **AB69** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 3:21 am

If I buy 1 plugin, and then decide I want the bundle later on but have 1 plugin in the bundle already, do I need to pay full price for the bundle still or price of bundle - price of that 1 plugin?

MachineClaw · Post by **MachineClaw** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 9:27 am

AB69 wrote:If I buy 1 plugin, and then decide I want the bundle later on but have 1 plugin in the bundle already, do I need to pay full price for the bundle still or price of bundle - price of that 1 plugin?

if you have one registered plugin and want to upgrade to the bundle then there is an option to upgrade. I don't know what the price is as it is only shown in each users account. it is cheaper than buying the bundle outright, small discount. but it may not be as cheap as buying the bundle outright at a 3rd party store like plugindiscounts.com

AB69 · Post by **AB69** » Fri Nov 28, 2014 9:56 am

MachineClaw wrote:
AB69 wrote:If I buy 1 plugin, and then decide I want the bundle later on but have 1 plugin in the bundle already, do I need to pay full price for the bundle still or price of bundle - price of that 1 plugin?
if you have one registered plugin and want to upgrade to the bundle then there is an option to upgrade. I don't know what the price is as it is only shown in each users account. it is cheaper than buying the bundle outright, small discount. but it may not be as cheap as buying the bundle outright at a 3rd party store like plugindiscounts.com

So lets say I buy echoboy, and then decide I want the bundle next year. So next year I am paying bundle price minus echoboy price correct and I can see this on my soundtoys account correct?

Just want to make sure I can do this before deciding which plugin thanks.

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