It's a cool feature that I don't think many DAW's allow. What I like is you don't have to use the internet either. As long as you have your numbers.
I just installed Steinberg Wave Lab 7 elements and it took a lot of back and forth on line before it was registered and working. A real pain. I had to drag my DAW computer down to the office as there's no internet in my studio.
I have Cubase LE and back when my laptop died I had to go through the whole process of re registering the software with Steinberg again,, it takes way to much time. The do have a USB e licenser that you can fork over $40 and solves the issue( I think?)
How would you like it if you had to go through 30 min of registering everytime you re -installed Sonar?
I have a second copy of 8.5 on my old laptop I use for location recording. This is super important to the way I work. The way I see it, as long as it's only me running the software I have not broken the licencing agreement. For $400+ I should be able to use it this way. All the other software I own is like this other than Steinberg.
I keep a 3rd copy of Sonar on this office computer just to help trouble shoot peoples issues, I don't think that's a misuse of using more than one copy. He-- if I'm going to go running upstairs just to find out what the option was someone was having trouble with. It's running a Soundblaster anyway so wouldn't do me much good as a DAW machine any-ways :)
post edited by Cactus Music - 2013/02/28 16:13:29