Hi - can anyone with any of the Korg Legacy Collection synths confirm this behavior?

Hi - recently, Korg posted a great deal on their Korg Legacy Collection software, that includes several of their emulations of older keyboards, and I bought the M1 and a friend bought the whole collection (GREAT prices, by the way - $24.99 for M1 and $99.99 for the whole collection)
 
So - I installed M1 on my desktop and all is fine, and the product works great for me.
 
I installed the whole collection on my friend's laptop, because he wants to use it live.
 
The problem is that even though all of the software on his laptop is fully authorized with the Licence Keys directly from the Korg registration process (ties it all to a single computer, which is fine), when any of the components are launched with the WiFi disabled (the drivers, and not just turning the transceiver off), the M1 software pops up a dialog box as if it had never been authorized.  NO ES BUENO!  The issue does NOT occur if the WiFi drivers are enabled, as it apparently phones home to Korg over an internet connection to make sure it is really authorized (even though the license key was pasted into M1 and fully authorized earlier).
 
The laptop's WiFi driver needs to be disabled for live performance, due to massive DPC Latency spikes when the drivers are enabled.
 
So far, the only way I have come up with to get past this idiocy is to leave the WiFi adapters enabled, then launch M1, wait a couple of seconds, and then I can disable WiFi before actually playing anything on M1.  There is no realistic way to ensure that for any given gig, that any WiFi connection would be guaranteed present, and I need to first confirm this behavior by someone/anyone else, and second, I need to figure out a better workaround to the issue.
 
Thanks for reading all of the above, and thanks in advance to anyone who can confirm the behavior.
 
Bob Bone
 

Interesting, I'll see if I can solve the latency issues with just turning transceiver off but leave the driver enabled.
 
I'll post back shortly.
 
Bob Bone
 

It may be possible to turn off all the network cards and then do the authorization, in which case it can't/won't key on the card.  But if the card is active when you do the authorization and then you turn it off, it could result in the challenge/response no longer being correct.  I've had issues like that with Virtual network cards even.  There are ways you can work around these things, but every vendor is different.
 

Trying to offer some possible help here. I am running Studio One 64 bit version on a Win 7 computer and I can say that the computer does not have to be on line at all for these Korg products to run normally. I am running Wavestation and M1.
 
I did something weird I think and for some reason the Wavestation is in the program Files/X86 folder and the M1 is in the normal 64 bit program Files/VST Plugins folder.
 
But the licence file for both seem to be in the ProgramFiles X86/Common Files/legacy folder. That is where as far as I can tell the licence files need to be.
 
I am only running 64 bit though when I bootup Studio One but both of these seem to boot up and run normally. Studio One does know though that some of my plugins are in the X86 folder where I guess the 64 bit versions might be. But in your case check as to where the licence files are.
 
I also have a 32 bit machine running with Win XP and the Wavestation is still on that machine but since running it on the 64 bit machine it has stopped working on the XP machine for some reason. I guess it may be confused not sure why. I don't care as I run both Korg products on the 64 bit machine anyway.
 
Try logging into Korg User Net and make sure all your products are registered. And maybe try a re issue licence as well. I have had to do that once or twice over the last few years as a result of me changing something major on my computer.
 
 
 

Thanks for reporting back ...