It was about half the original price IIRC... that would be far too much for VSL... In all honesty I hardly think it should cost anything at all considering the current price of the VI. What I really liked about Pro. Ed and Viennas license policy was that I could do just about what I wanted to do, and on as many computers as I felt I needed - I always hated systems like NI's "install on two computers only" system... Along with Spectrasonics, VSL were (are?) among the best in regard to licenses.
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Of course, DG. I'm just trying to sayt that when we ask for a site-licence it doesn't mean that it is going to be used by a whole company but by an individual who is forced to use more than one computer because of RAM limitations. And also that comparisons with Gigastudio, Logic etc are dangerous as they only cost a fraction of VI.
Dom
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@Dom said:
Of course, DG. I'm just trying to sayt that when we ask for a site-licence it doesn't mean that it is going to be used by a whole company but by an individual who is forced to use more than one computer because of RAM limitations. And also that comparisons with Gigastudio, Logic etc are dangerous as they only cost a fraction of VI.
Dom
I totally understand. My suggestion would be that although VSL should set a site licence price (maybe the equivalent cost of original side licences), it should have to be applied for and, up to a point, justified by the end user. If there was an automatic granting with no communication then it would open up a can of worms that VSL is obviously trying to avoid by swapping to a CP system in the first place. I certainly don't want to be paying more in the future because some unscrupulous people have "lent" their spare dongles to their mates! I think that those people who need more than 1 licence would find it very easy to justify (as you have) so there ought not to be a problem.
Just my £0.02 worth
DG
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As far as I know, Syncrosoft does not have any plans for a network tongle solution.
And I'm very sorry that we cannot offer price reduced 2nd or 3rd licenses.
Fact is, that we don't have any possibility to prohibit a resale of a price reduced 2nd license. (maybe even to a higher price!)
Therefor we can offer multiple licenses only to public educational institutions (instutions where we theoretically could check if our licenses are not abused).
best
Herb
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not only theoretically - of course except the responsible person gives away her/his login, but i'd assume actually nobody want's to see her/his license related login data floating around the web ...
as far as we talk about getting around RAM limitations - it is possible to move collections to a second computer (content, license) and run additional instances there
christian
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Christian, of course we are aware of being able to move entire collections to another computer but as pointed out the beginning of the thread we are working with some machines that run a general template with commonly used instruments and add to those with extra articulations on another computer (or more commonly our Logic, Cubase etc projects.
I guess a lot of film composers work this way - otherwise it would mean reloading all your machines constantly for each cue, plus labelling and keeping track of all the setups etc.
What about adding the functionality of being able to remove the dongle once you've loaded?
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@Juda said:
I just purchased VE and was stunt, that you need two licenses, e.g. I have a separate PC and a Mac Labtop, for both I'll use one external Harddisk, but I doubt that gonna work with both systems, so do I have to pay twice because I won't slow down my Mac over boot camp?
I'm not sure what your question means. You can use the dongle for a sample library on either of your machines. Just not both at the same time.
If you really mean, that you purchased VE (as in VE3) then you get three installs, so you have no problem.
DG
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A quick question which seems to fot here.
The Vienna Suite... Do I need to buy one per computer, or can I request additional keys? I ask because it would be nice to be able to use Vienna Suite on each computer with Vienna Ensemble... But not so nice that I would be interested in buying a licence per PC.
Thanks
