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Re: ilok via a usb hub ?
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You only have two options finally: accept what you cannot change even if it hurts or change it. There's no other way out, dude. I never liked the iLok system as well but finally I decided to stay with Pro Tools and stay with the plug in manufacturers who use this licensing system anyway. If it leaves you too unhappy just leave the system. Get, for example, Logic Pro X which has become a fantastic DAW over time and seriously can compete with PT nowadays and only use plug ins which do not use the iLok system anymore. There are fantastic, professional plug ins out there which are not licensed via iLok like all the Waves, all the Plugin Alliance and many more. However if you decide not to change that all try to cope with it. Doesn't make sense to fall into despair or never ending anger because of something you cannot change finally. There are so much more important things in life at the end of the day. However if you decide to stay with the iLok system I have to agree with Jack: get the f... ZDT! If you go with the iLok system it makes your life so much easier for just $30.- per year. It´s really really worth it at the end of the day. Anyway I can understand you and, you know, you always have the option to leave that system. Today there are serious alternative options you could use instead finally. All the best to you. Cheers, VRW |
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Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. |
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I think that's the key, it's just pure frustration of in a modern world there are better ways to deal with this issue of protecting data on devices, you see key security devices ranging from black box license devices to random number generating dynamic keys for most commercial products where upon failing you don't need to be out of action for days, and you certainly don't need to send the device back to get your data recovered by some guy holding a root key, they ship out the dumb cheap device (or you buy one) and re-sync, the frustration isn't that the system is on a physical device, or that it fails (they are cheap, they will fail) it's the over the top process and costs it demands, they must have a large non-usa base, yet return to the USA is the only option, there is no investment in device sync/replication. I'm happy with pro-tools and I feel it's something worth continuing with, more so as an amateur swapping software isn't helpful. I think the frustration is around the pointlessness and costs of the process overall, but to have it happen a an unexpected time, eg: the device was working, ilok told me to update to the current license manager - I did that and the first open after the update the device is broken....it feels questionable, but then if you don't upgrade and raise an issue the first thing support tell you to do is upgrade to the latest version, the whole thing feels like a scam you must buy our hardware you must use the software and software versions we tell you if that software then triggers a break you must follow a process that is a pain and costs money you must then buy another of our devices if you want to use the software while following this process of our making you must give us more money, but you must still follow this process in the background. it's just a case of sucking it up I guess, and keeping up to date with other options such as the new cloud sync stuff I've been reading about. |
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Re: ilok via a usb hub ?
You see, that's where ZDT with TLC comes into it's own. You can recover your licences to your spare iLok almost immediately. No sending your iLok back and waiting for a return. Your making excuses for a problem that does not exist.
As to reliability, my current iLok is the one I got way back with PT 11.0, and it is still going strong.
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Re: ilok via a usb hub ?
*Solved* (well at least for me)
I know this is an old thread but just wanted to post this in case someone comes across it as this issue had bedeviled me for years! I have a 2013 MBP 15" Retina and had the exact same issue that the OP was experiencing. I tried just about everything mentioned in this thread except for the USB 2 powered hub. I was using the OWC Thunderbolt 2 Hub for my peripherals but my iLok would not work on it. But now OWC has come out with the Thunderbolt 3 Hub so I grabbed one and a couple of Apple Thunderbolt 3 to 2 adapters, wired everything up, plugged the iLok into the hub and lo-and-behold, it "finally" works for me!! No more eating up a USB port on my laptop just to run my iLok!! OWC link is here... https://www.owcdigital.com/products/...3-dock-14-port |
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