Third party licensing - Melodyne, Addictive Drums, TH3

TH3 Cakewalk has no separate license. It is locked to SONAR.

Are you having trouble with the TH3 bundled with SONAR?

That's right, it crashed SPLAT at one point, according to Sonar's occasional dump file - a very good idea, when it works - and I was already knee-deep with bigger problems, so I just removed the .dll and re-scanned for the time being.

Yes, I do know that, and I should not have included TH3 in this thread, because it has veered into crashes, which I may post about, but for this post I was really interested in licenses.
 
I think you answered my questions - or confirmed what I already knew.  I guess what I can't get my head around is that I gain no real benefit from having both Sonar-sanctioned versions (in AD2, it's the full version, I believe; for Melodyne, I have Melodyne Editor, which has more features), as well as my own, separate, out-of-pocket versions. 
 
Put simply:  when I go to activate either AD2 or Melodyne, I have to log in to their respective pages, at which point I'm taken to my account page, which shows my two-licenses - the same as what I had before SPLAT was upgraded to included each.  So, while they truly are awesome offerings within SPLAT, for folks in my position there appears to be no real gain.
 
In a nutshell, my question - the one I should have asked at the outset - is:  Do pre-existing owners of Melodyne and AD or AD2 (i.e., before they were included in SPLAT) get any benefit from SPLAT's inclusion of them (and the answer isn't "you have the full version of Melodyne," because I already had that, so there is no gain)? 
 
If so, how to I get that benefit, in other words, how do I install SPLAT's licensed versions of Melodyne and AD2 without also activating the licenses I bought for each out-of-pocket?  Right now I have two licenses for each - the ones I bought - despite attempting to activate them using SPLAT's protocol (to take advantage of their integration into SPLAT).
 
Thanks again.

Treefight
Does anyone know how license transfer or multiple machine (only one used at a time, e.g., a laptop and desktop) setup with non-CW-plugs works?  I don't believe its at all the same, i.e., serial number only. So far as I can tell, it's two license total for Melodyne and AD-2, for example (which may be further complicated by me having already bought full versions of each pre-Sonar inclusion).  And TH3's permission slip seems to have gotten lost altogether... 


I'm in that position where my machine may be on its last legs, so I need to start thinking about this stuff...
 
Thanks in advance everyone!
 
 
 
 
 

You need to login to your Melodyne account and your AD accounts and deactivate your licences.  Then you will have 2 to use once your computer dies.