MINIMg 2.0 free upgrade for 1.6 owners

[Rob Roff]

Rob, did you click on the "rescan plug-ins" button in the Ableton OPTIONS/FILE FOLDER?

Yes I did, thanks.

edit: I had to trash the Live preferences for it to show up in ableton. And for Kore I had to delete the database files (rescan didn't do it). Ok good. I thought that was going to be like the ARP2600 were it just won't show up (in kore).

cheers

[Sweep]

Thanks, Airspeed.  I'll follow your advice when I try the upgrade later today.

[Frederic Brun]

What happens if you bought your Arturia synths before they started to use dongles? Do you now need to buy a dongle before you can upgrade?

You won't have to buy a dongle. The fact that we are moving to the Syncrosoft system for all our products won't affect you financially:
- we will provide users from previous versions with a Soft eLicenser that will allow them to install the update on one computer.
- updates themselves are free.

Only if you wish to port your license on a Hardware eLicenser (allowing you to use the product on any computer), you will have to purchase a dongle (around 10Eur, I think).

[Frederic Brun]

The new V2 vocal patches are absolutely wicked. Great job Arturia!!! : )

Thank you. All your positive comments are good to read!

Frederic

[MBI]

Hi

Cool the GUI-Bug (see here) seems to be fixed now, thank you

Can you also fix the same bug on Mg Modular V, ARP2600 V and CS-80V please!

[Antoine]

Should be done in a few months. 2009 should be a fruitful year for updates... 

[ark]

- we will provide users from previous versions with a Soft eLicenser that will allow them to install the update on one computer.

Only if you wish to port your license on a Hardware eLicenser (allowing you to use the product on any computer), you will have to purchase a dongle (around 10Eur, I think).

If this is true, it's a shame.  Because if I understand this claim correctly, if I ever wish to run MiniMg V on more than one computer, I need a special piece of hardware and I need to dedicate a USB port for the purpose.

I hae lots of other music software, and no one else imposes this requirement.  Not Finale, not Ableton, not Sonar, not any of the Applied Acoustics softsynths, not any of the Novation softsynths, and so on.

So if Arturia is imposing this requirement, it's back to 1.6 for me.  I don't have so many USB ports that I can afford to dedicate one of them to software that I use only once in a while.

[MBI]

Should be done in a few months. 2009 should be a fruitful year for updates... 

OK thanks! 

[MBI]

I don't have so many USB ports that I can afford to dedicate one of them to software that I use only once in a while.

It shouldn't be a problem, you can use one or more USB-Hubs if necessary but i would recommend to not use bus-powered hubs

[ark]

I don't have so many USB ports that I can afford to dedicate one of them to software that I use only once in a while.

It shouldn't be a problem, you can use one or more USB-Hubs if necessary but i would recommend to not use bus-powered hubs

I was being partly facetious: The problem is not just the need for a dedicated USB hub.

Part of the problem is the need for an additional piece of hardware that Arturia will not sell me right now even if I wanted to buy one because they're out of stock.  Another part is the imposition of a requirement beyond those of all of the other software purveyors I use.  Yet another is, if I understand things correctly, the fact that if I wish to move the software to another machine and my Internet connection is broken, I'm out of luck.  Yet another is that there is a small piece of hardware that, if lost or broken, makes the product useless.

This is too much of a hassle to be worth the bother to me.  Unless I'm mistaken about the requirements, I'm sticking with 1.6.