miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
Heh, I know. The other guy doesn't, though.
My sense of humour isn't going far today.
I knew that you knew...I was agreeing, and just wanted to expand on it for the other guy.
Heh, I know. The other guy doesn't, though.
My sense of humour isn't going far today.
Don't know about now. Pretty sure way back when I first looked at DAWs that it did along with a number of other programs.
I read the problems people complained about and ruled out anything with a dongle.
Fortunately there are PLENTY of good DAWs and other programs that are dongle free.
All they really do is provide a hardware handshake that some embedded portion of software looks for before it continues to run. Depending on how its implemented, the software could look once (upon program start) and then leave the program unencumbered, or it can continually monitor for compliant hardware, which would then continually steal CPU time, which for an audio recording program can be a bad thing. Also, they are subject to being damaged.They often phone home at the worst times to screw up a recording.
They don't work at all without an internet connection which you should have turned off for security when you use your pc for audio and have stopped all the troublesome security software you need when on line.
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All they really do is provide a hardware handshake that some embedded portion of software looks for before it continues to run. Depending on how its implemented, the software could look once (upon program start) and then leave the program unencumbered, or it can continually monitor for compliant hardware, which would then continually steal CPU time, which for an audio recording program can be a bad thing. Also, they are subject to being damaged.
I agree with you, tho. I've had issues with both serial and USB dongles over the years (both cases were color management software). Maybe they've improved reliability in recent years, but I think they are a lousy way to keep legitimate users "honest". The pirates are never going to buy anyway. They'll use a cracked version they downloaded off some website, even if it doesn't work right.