Cheers
Kev

“In order to work, it doesn’t need your login for anything, atm.”

I’m sorry, I read it all wrong, I get what you’re saying now, my bad, disregard my other comment….

What do you mean “In order to work, it doesn’t need your login for anything, atm” ?

Latest version and build on win7 SP1 just gives me a login window on launch, can’t do sh*t,

Perhaps this is just an win7 issue and you don’t get locked on that screen on win10…. but that’s what I get.

Requirement of a first login is mostly a non option on my offline station anyway… even more so if it’s due to a machine ID or C/R DRM.

I will stick with explorer in Reaper, at least that thing is portable and reliable. Wish you all the luck with your projects, you obviously have skills and good ideas.

BTW If you want a bug to fix then there’s one in Energy Panner… if you create a folder in the preset directory the plugin will only list about 4-5 entries even though the folder contains more… VST2 x64 win7 SP1.

There will be an update that will just require the first login, and then save the token in the preferences file so you can use in offline mode.
But yes, I do understand your concern and reasoning. In order to work, it doesn’t need your login for anything, atm.

Well, not only updates, it uses internet to force me to login to make it possible for me to run it at all, which is not possible on my working rig which is offline…but I guess that’s semantics.

Make it more obvious it has a online dependency in order to be useful at all, It would be appreciated by people who have no intress in such things… only reason why I even looked at this was because evey other application similair to this I’ve seen is dependent on a online/account/cloud-internet connection, I don’t deal with any of that, IMO everything that has a dependecy like that in order to work is garbage.

I trust your opinion. Even if there is a future that will be linked to the cloud in the future, it should be a specification that can be used without logging in.

Atm, Explorer only uses internet for update checking.
In the future it “might” get cloud functionality that’s why it has the account requirement, so that users already have an account when it happens :)

*Not any program in the world will require your LIVE participant or login just to “Check the update state” of the software itself. These are all excuses that are designed for kids.

yes, a really detailed comparison would be very interesting to read, i like the idea!

“If Explorer is running on a computer with internet access, it is able to detect if a newer update is available, informing the user of the existence of a new update, ny showing a pop-up winodw when the app is initated”

Manual states that “When the user opens Explorer, he will be presented with the main view of the sound library.”

The first thing I see when I launch it is a Login/Password window…. FFS that’s the first thing that should be stated in a manual and clearly stated on the product page.

Don’t hide by the technicality that it says so on the website as in the vaguely stated small text “A free Sound Particles account is required to download ””AND USE”” Explorer” and then have the manual say nothing about it except: hey if you are online it can check for updates…that’s good right, being connected to the internet is is the best, right?” /s read as Dad who want to be cool voice

In no way would I spend/invest time to learn and incorperate a program like this in the daily workflow when it’s dependent on a server being maintained….doesn’t matter if it’s “only” for the activation….specially if it’s machine ID locked.

Even if I would be ok with machine ID authorization I find no way to use this on a offline machine at all…

The only reason I could see for this being a machine ID locked is if it’s going to be payware…if so why not say so?

If that’s not the case, the only other reason why it still needs to connect to a server everytime at launch would be to farm user data, but the manual clearly states it does not send any information from the user ove internet… so why then? if this this is true then it’s retarded as in profoundly stupid.

If the developer reads this, …. I would send you feedback since you asked for it (in the manual) but I can’t be borthered with this forced-online-connectivity trash. I write my feedback here in order to inform anybody else who may have similair preferences like me.

I would kindly ask BPB to actually include proper DRM information.

..and if I’m missed the information somewhere in the manual or on the site including the FAQ section, while actively being looking for it just further prove my point.

Interesting idea, thanks for the suggestion. I added this article to my to-do list.