Is there any way we can have faster validation on Cubase? It’s diving me nuts every time I load a new song, from booting up Cubase. It’s far too slow.
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It’s maddening. InMusic has been completely inflexible in discussing any changes to the licensing system.
The only thing that might help is to shell out for an NVMe drive to put your BFD libraries on.
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What I do is block access to the InMusic validation server with Glasswire (on Windows), then when BFD loads up it skips the validation speeding up loading. The issue is, I don’t know how often BFD has to connect, I’m guessing at least every 90 days but I just don’t know, I’ve asked on these forums but got no response from support, So every so often I bite the bullet and let it validate normally.
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Same here on Mac.. I use Little Snitch to stop incoming/outgoing sever coms, and then open them to reauthorise….Weirdly, Its the same technique for running pirated software, so it seems, being legit just makes it harder.
This was identified in beta testing and they claimed it would improve on launch.
It did not.
They haven’t addressed it at all and seem to be ignoring customer complaints about it.
it’s rendered BFD unusable for me and I would seek a refund.
Faster drive makes no difference in my experience.
It’s just a broken system that punishes the legitimate customers and they knew about well in advance of launch.
Can you provide some more details about that? I would really like to try that approach.
When I restart my computer, it takes over two minutes the first time I load BFD as a plug-in just for the window to appear. Then it takes another several minutes while it authorizes the licenses for all my expansions. That is pure customer punishing garbage.
Glasswire is a free Windows program, or rather there is a usable free version, that let you see and block network connections.When BFD starts up it attempts to make a connection to the inMusic validation server. When I see the ‘You need to authorize your products to continue’ screen, just choose Not Right Now. If you have Glasswire loaded before running BFD3, you will see BFD3 in the list of active network connections from where it can be blocked. As indicated in my post, I suspect that BFD3 will have to be revalidated every so often (90 days ??) so I will occasionally run without Glasswire being run.
Thanks for explaining that. A follow-up question if you don’t mind: are you still on BFD 3.4, or have you upgraded to the latest BFD 3.5? I ask because the latter never even asks if you want to authorize. It just starts wasting your time–ridiculous amounts of it in fact–every single time you load the plugin. But maybe I block it once and see what happens?
Latest 3.5 version. Usually takes less than 14 seconds to load for me. I have loads of expansions. Subsequent openings of GUI in same DAW edit are instantaneous.
Wow. That’s interesting. I measure the time in minutes. Subsequent openings take more like a single minute rather than a total of maybe 3 - 5 minutes at initial startup.
If this keeps going, there will probably be a South Park episode about this situation. 
[But yeah, it’s a bit annoying to see this all the time; but better than those loss of authorization messages we used to get, even before the 90 days were up.]
This may not be possible for you, it isn’t for some people I have seen. But here if I turn off wifi there is no such process. It looks for a fraction of a second like it’s going to start but then BFD just opens. Sonoma OS.