Hey Chris,
I understand your frustrations completely, but I'm a guy still in the first
years of running a studio commercially, still relying on sonar, and its
fairly dam frustrating over here for a myriad of reasons. Some days I wish I
could afford to jump over to PT, despite the short comings, but I don't
think the level of frustration will be greater or lesser, just different.
Hang in there and find ways for your own abilities to keep the projects
moving in the right direction despite the technologies drawbacks,
Brian.
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From: "Chris Gilland" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 6:07 PM
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: ilok license manager
I only can say one thing, and maybe I am really really jumping the gun
here, so if so, forgive me, but ok, now you're telling me in addition to
ProTools not offerring much sollution to the accessibility problems that
we've been discussing on list for god knows now how long, but now you're
telling me that the ILok can't be managed online anymore except by a
manager which isn't accessible? OK, I'm sorry to say this, but I purchase
a log of plugins to use both for myself and for my clients when they come
to record, plus, I'm not able to use the full capassity of my hard drive
to it's full potential as I have to dule boot between 10.6 and 10.8. I
want 10.8 primarily, but I'm not about! to put PT on an ML partition, I'm
sorry, but it's just not gonna happenb. Some of you may say, well, so I
can't read the tempo, so I can't read the counter clusters, etc. I'll deal
with it. folks? I? can't! deal with it! I have a job to run here, and
part of that is getting clients the best sound I can get them. I'm sorry,
but I'm not making a client pay x amount of dollars while because of not
being able to read the counters, I sit here manually by ear trying to
nudge things just to the right place on the ruler. Now, the ILok is doing
what it's doing? Granted it's not Avid that is responsible for ILok, I'll
grant you that fact, but this is ridiculous! I swear I'm about ready to
throw my PT out the window, go back to Sonar and say to hell with it. I
really, really, really! don't wanna do that, but if it's gonna mean
accessibility degrading this much, I don't have time in my business to sit
here waiting on things to be fixed. there is a high enough demand for my
services, that I need up to date technology, and if I can't even expect to
see improvements being made with updates, then, I find it a bit stupid,
quite frankly put, for me to keep over and over just waiting. I think
that Slau is a wonderful wonderful gentlemen, and I think we owe him more
than words ever could comprehensibly express of gratitude for his
unfailing commitment, as he's not let us down yet even once, but that
being said, let's be very very realistic. Slau has talked over and over
and over again to Avid, and these other companies, and I do think some of
the devs he's worked with, and c e o's he's talked to etc. seem to get it,
but once put into perspective, it seems like the commitment he's providing
is being squashed, and frankly, I don't think that is fair to us as blind
individuals. More importantly than us, I don't think it's at all fair to
slau himself!
I dono. I'll keep PT for now, but I'm telling you something now. If I
don't start seeing improvement over the next rest of this year, between
say now and next January, I'm seriously going to reconsider my workflow.
I have nothing against any of you who may strongly object to my opinion,
but please understand where I am coming from as well, and really think
long and hard about what I'm saying. It's just not worth me continuing to
invest money in a company who promises improvement yet then doesn't seem
to follow through. I'll admit this thread's about ILok, not ProTools, but
it all goes hand in hand. If you're telling me ILok isn't manageable
accessibly anymore, then basically what you're also telling me by not!
telling me, is that any new PT customers who're blind unlessx they get an
ILok that comes with PT with the license already on it, are going to be...
pardon the language... F***ed! Mainly, because they won't have any way
without sighted help to license the product. I'm sorry, but that in
itself to me is all the reason to be a deal breaker.
Just my two cents worth. I didn't say you have to agree with me, but I'll
say this, agree to disagree, as frankly, I've had a bad enough week as is,
and the last thing I need right now, is to babysit immature flamers on/off
the list. Voice your opinion, but be polite about it. If anything I've
said's come across as rude, it's not my entention, but just realize my
frustration. I mean seriously people! Can you honestly blame me?
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. R. Westmoreland" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 10:19 AM
Subject: Re: ilok license manager
You aren't kidding. What a mess at first glance. Corporate silliness rules
again. You would have thought that Avid would have made a few quiet
suggestions to these folks since their products all use the stupid item.
Any observations from the part of the list that is much more cozy with
Avid?
J. R.
On Jun 25, 2013, at 3:42 AM, Stefan Albertshauser
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi all,
It is no longer possible to manage ilok licenses via the web site. They
distribute a license manager. This tool isn't accessible. I want to
contact the company about that. What I need, are suggestions to formulate
an official letter. My english isn't good enough, I think.
Thanks in advance.
Stefan
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