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Anukis · Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 3:13 pm Post subject:

So my Kronos was never destroyed by me or stolen. It was "their" fault yet after asking repeatedly for my licenses to be transferred to my new kronos the answer was "no".

You heard about someone now who's situation does not exist in theory. Yet I still bit my lip and bought another 2 Kronos' sold them and bought another Kronos X88 but swore never ever to deal with 3rd party developers nor buy anything related to Korg software releases unless they are free.
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meatballfulton · Senior Member Joined: 20 Jun 2007 Posts: 337

I had been thinking of buying a Kronos but as soon as I found out about the licensing I decided to forget about it.

I understand piracy concerns but punishing your paying customers is just stupid. I will not buy products that do not allow easy license transfers.
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SanderXpander · Platinum Member Joined: 29 Jul 2011 Posts: 7860

I'm sorry to hear that Anukis, thank you for sharing. That's very disappointing, I really expected Korg to take care of warranty transfers at least.
EDIT: just for our info - were these Korg libraries or someone else's? You mention 3rd party developers? And considering it was a warranty repair I'm assuming you went through the service center?

Anukis · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 9:53 am Post subject:

Its ok I got over it. I still love korg and buy all their gear but it is the way it is. Cant do much. These things happen. It was the first Kronos so I think the distributers themselves were new to all this software license policy.
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Anukis · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 10:00 am Post subject:

Yes one was Karo and the rest were Korg. From memory Legendry strings and the Austrian Grand and the Karo one was a symphonic library. They were $249 a pop I think.
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kronoSphere · Senior Member Joined: 04 Jan 2012 Posts: 447

As far as I am concerned ( I have bought the Synphonic Library fromKaro) I continue to think that those kind of licences could be easily be transfered from one Kronos to another... ...if these companies would want it : they could do it Laughing

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Francois · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 1:28 pm Post subject:

Perhaps a solution would be to specify whether you want to authorise the bank on your hard drive, as is the case now, or on a USB key via a stamp file. Should you authorise a USB key, you could use it with Kronos A and Kronos B by simply plugging the key and selecting "USB authorisation" when you go to Global.

That way, you do not force people who don't want the hassle of a USB dongle to have one (i.e. they use the same authorisation method as exists now), but those who have two Kronos could use the bank they have purchased with both machines.

The solution also works well for people selling their Kronos. Since a bank is linked to a machine, either you sell your Kronos and the buyer keeps the bank installed on the hard drive or the key, or you sell the Kronos but keep the key to use with a Kronos 2, for example. In any case, this system means you cannot use the bank on both your new Kronos and the one you sold.
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SanderXpander · Platinum Member Joined: 29 Jul 2011 Posts: 7860

That's exactly the way Waves does it (and a few others). It's very convenient. You can also move the license between flash drive, hard drive and the cloud with an internet based licensing utility.

Of course, to be fair, Waves is also some of the most popular warezed software.

kronoSphere · Senior Member Joined: 04 Jan 2012 Posts: 447

I just remember that years ago, Photoshop and Steinberg had voluntarily left unprotected some of their softwares with a marketing perspective in mind : That their softwares will be recognized by the most people in the world. And it's a fact that the professionnal users always pay their licences.
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keez · Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 5:20 pm Post subject:

Similar to meatballfulton above, the licensing issue did stop me from spending money on addition Korg stuff. I have bought a Kronos, but I would like to purchase additional sounds and also an additional Kronos. This way I could have one Kronos at home, and one at the studio. Unfortunately, this would require purchasing all the sounds twice.

For this reason, I have not purchased an additional Kronos, OR any sound sets. Korg have missed out twice there.

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