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[tooner10]

i humbly agree. i’m seeing a $199 upgrade price from SD2 which i own and $299 upgrade from EZD2 which i also already own???!!!! $200 is a lot to pay for resizable windows and improved midi functionality!!!! which i might add i already had in EZD2 for a couple of years now.

honestly the tons of other features of SD3 are not interesting to me (other than the two i listed above) at all and it feels to me like TT has lumped all this together to squeeze more cash from me when i’ve already essentially bought two programs from them that do these things separately. from my perspective, SD3 really puts to death SD2 and EZD2 as it marries both.

i think what i’m saying is there should be a *significantly* lower third upgrade price for users that own BOTH EZD2 AND SD2 not just one or the other! i feel like i’m getting squeezed at $199 for the SD2 upgrade!

[tooner10]

@John said:

@tooner10 said:
only 2 can actually be *actively* authorized correct?

yes, you are correct

cool got it.

on my SD i have two active and what looks like a third unactivated authorization (circle with slash through it). i didn’t want to click the X on one of the active auths thinking it would wipe it out *completely* but then maybe give me the ability to authorize one new computer. otoh, perhaps clicking that x just puts the once actively authorized computer down at the bottom so i can reactivate it? hopefully you understand what i’m trying to say. in essence if i click an x for an activation online, does it a) wipe it out completely so i have to do a complete reauth again of that computer if i ever want to use it again or b) does it store it as inactive and just move it to the bottom of product panel so that i can just deactivate one of the other two existing auths and then click another interface icon to make that one go active?

thanks

The ones at the bottom with a slash circle are inactive autos, i.e. formerly active that you have removed by clicking the ‘X’ on one of the active ones.
Don’t worry, you get a warning before anything happens when you click the ‘X’.
No, you cannot re-activate an earlier activated computer by yourself. When you have used up your 4 Authorizations per product, you tell us and we free the inactive ones up.

So go ahead and make the computer inactive that you are replacing with the Mac and then tell us when to free up (remove) inactive Authorizations.

ok i’m pretty sure i got it. there’s no way to easily swap back and forth to the 3rd or more computer if you use 2+ computers without doing a reauth every time. i guess that makes sense. most people won’t use 2+ computers. it probably doesn’t come up enough to be a concern for you guys either. but if it isn’t to too much of a problem to implement that feature it might be cool. fwiw, presonus has 5 active auths for studio one pro software. i’ve had like 3 to 5 laptops over the last couple of years and it’s nice to know i can / was able to bounce from one to another without having to login, dig up codes, deauth, auth, etc to get things going. just a thought.

thanks for the help

[tooner10]

john. super thanks. i didn’t see those mac / both buttons in the top right corner but i was pretty sure toontrack stuff was cross platform.

two followups.

1a) i gather i can actually have *more* than 2 computers authorized but only 2 can actually be *actively* authorized correct? after i buy the mac, i’ll primarily shift to using it but i’ll have a total of 3 laptops at that point. i wouldn’t mind leaving my toontrack software including sdx / ezx libs installed since they can take a really long time and space to install. that way if i ever want to switch to using either of the other two win laptops, it’ll be as easy as just going in to my online account and making one or the other two win authorizations active (e.g. toggling between them if i feel like it without having to go through the authorization process every time while leaving the full installs intact on all three laptops). does that sound correct?

2b) unfortunately i’m not sure activation of more than 2 authorizations is possible or simply as easy as toggling from 2+. when i look at my authorizations for my various products, if i have less than 2 authorizations, it allows me to authorize 1 new computer. on my SD i have two active and what looks like a third unactivated authorization (circle with slash through it). i didn’t want to click the X on one of the active auths thinking it would wipe it out *completely* but then maybe give me the ability to authorize one new computer. otoh, perhaps clicking that x just puts the once actively authorized computer down at the bottom so i can reactivate it? hopefully you understand what i’m trying to say. in essence if i click an x for an activation online, does it a) wipe it out completely so i have to do a complete reauth again of that computer if i ever want to use it again or b) does it store it as inactive and just move it to the bottom of product panel so that i can just deactivate one of the other two existing auths and then click another interface icon to make that one go active?

i hope that’s clear
thanks

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