Anybody know of a list of iLok-free (no iLok or Pace locked) software for composition and production?
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I use Sibelius and Native Instruments Kontakt compliant packages. None of them require a dongle. (I have an iLok for EWQL as you have but I have had it for a year and not yet used it).
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Not sure about that list. Pretty sure some, like Waves and iZotope, give you the option of licensing to iLok or machine.
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Joanna Karselis EastWest is doing the same thing via iLok -- don't need the dongle (USB stick) just the iLok software which encodes off your hardware. The problems grow horns when one runs iLok and AWS distributed software in virtual machines or on data centres far, far away.
It's kind of a cool idea, and I can't believe I've not come across someone else doing this, but why not rent the hardware virtually via a VPS (virtual private server) -- install the DAW on the rented space at whatever data centre's hosting your VPS and use your own inadequate hardware as an interface, plug in the midi, whatever... have the VPS crunch the files and send back the .wavs, .mp3s whatever.
Check out Spitifire Audio Labs for free virtual instruments that sound pretty good!