just a note on an additional reason for being “offline”
I do a lot of live tracking for ensembles and learned (the hard way) to disable any ‘services’/process that might want to do some during that magical take. i use dedicated systems that have wifi disabled by default on startup. no problem to be online for installation/updating, but -not- to use the product. I do a lot of remote/location work and can not for the life of me figure out the logic for using BFD based on my experience.
fwiw, i own a -lot- of plugins (not GAS, but to cover a range of client requests) and BFD is the -only- one that has managed to take down a session.
and only here because of the latest problem this week…
The latest was Dark Farm being de-authorized after installing a few weeks ago, -and- checking to make sure all products had plenty of runway before heading out.
Noting the LM says to “recheck” in 86 days every time i run it. Is that your experience as well?
The license checking is annoying and not professional, they probably are paranoid of illegal copy or wants to keep track of you.
I’m still looking (not actively) for an alternative of BFD just because of that. It is the only software were I have to connect my computer to internet to be able to use it. Incredible!!
Find another drum app. The archaic licensing system is an invention of the new owners and poorly thought out and implemented. They have shown no interest in attempting to fix problems like yours (and mine).
You’d be well advised to look at one of the many, professional standard, alternatives.
My BFD3 and all the expansions were suddenly de-authorized when I needed to use them last Saturday, still are.
The server wasn’t able to perform a re-authorization, still isn’t.
I opened a support ticket but haven’t got any verification from the support, and no answer from them.
What a joke, how unprofessional.
So sad seeing a top software going down the grave, and how frustrating having let inMusic steal my software in the name of copy protection. Tsss…
Hah, after 3 days The Support Team sent me a mail with a link to an irrelevant guide how to register my software.
Didn’t work of course.
Then I got some more mails with other links to other irrelevant guides. Didn’t help.
And then I just logged out from my account in the License Manager, and logged in again, as per suggestion from Steve63.
Ta-da, problem solved, suddenly the License manager could see my licensed software.
In spite of The Support Teams efforts.
As BFD3 3.5 is about to drop (hopefully tomorrow) that kind of thing should be a thing of the past.
I don’t know if it will be included (doubtful) but something that could acknowledge server issues and not punnish you for them, would be a bloody good thing.
