@Maya said:
I am not exactly sure what you mean by "loooooong eLicense verification", anyway problems with licenses and eLCC are completely beyound our control.
Your quote is really frightening me!
I'm not sure at what position you are working at VSL but to be not aware of the long verification explains why all the complaints of VSL users are falling on deaf ears. Here is what you should do:
1a) Install Logic on the fastest MacPro with the latest OS
1b) Install a couple of plugins: Kontakt, Play, Omnisphere, Trilian, etc
1c) Install the complete Cube collection of VSL
2) Now load any of the third party plugin in Logic (just the plugin no sounds), they will open in seconds
3) Now load the Vienna Instrument plugin in Login, it will take a few minutes !!! Remember just the launch of the player, not a single sample has been loaded.
Now you are telling me that you or VSL is not aware of that problem? I'm not talking about a problem with eLicense itself which has plenty. I have other plugins that use the eLicense and they don't need minutes to load. The only finger pointing towards eLicence is in place for what happens when the verification process get stuck. No feedback or error message popping up in the foreground to alert you. Just freezing in background and wasting more of the valuable production time.
It seems that VSL made a decision to use the verification process not only for the VI plugin but check the library itself. It almost seems that VSL wants to verify every freakin' sample after every restart to make sure that a customer who paid +10K didn't turn into a thief the last few hours.
This is what's wrong with the VSL authentication and I really really hope they get rid of that practice with the PRO version. I understand that developers have to deal with piracy one way or the other but it has been proven that most of the time the honest user get punished where the pirates find their way regardless of any clever mechanism. I'm ok as a user to deal with some inconvenience (dongle, authentication, challenge-response, etc) to make sure that the company and their product can survive, but what VSL has implemented here is plain outrages and even more outrages that they didn't bother to fix it for so many years.
Maybe on the PC side, at least XP, it is a less of an issue as DG pointed out and the complaints are not so loud but even 1 minutes to open a plugin is still too much.