ILOK crap gets cracked every other day. These, yes even the stuff you mentioned, will get cracked at some point if the demand is there. Demand is there for UAD natives and so it will happen. Demand is there (or at least it was) for PT as well. I love how all you nay sayer's chime in when ever the subject pops up.. Like you all have stock/vested interest in these shitheel corporations that makes them impervious to the crack. Get real...

 

the thing is that, outside of the server, the only real protection universal audio has is the ilok... and that has been somewhat removed

 

forget about this one, i confused it with another one

 

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also, the thing with universal audio now is that the teams have a weapon to use to get it done: the free LA-2A

 

Actually, he is right as as far as last appearances of the ones he mentioned. McDSP made a small appearance in '21. The rest are gone by the way side since around 2016 or so... Thing is, it's NOT because the stuff cannot not be cracked or whatever. It's because the with capitalist surge of redundancy and cloning of the same basic pieces of software over and over by 20++ different co's/corps it's easy to simply get lost in the sea of white noise.

 

Fact is there are many ILOK/Auth-server schemes that have been cracked and still continue to be even recently. And quite successfully too.

 

yeah, my bad. i confused it with another, thats why i deleted that piece

 

meh, UAD is a dollar short and a day late, not worth even demoing in todays landscape

they not offering weird overpriced hardware cards needed to run the shit on these days no?

 

full native, no dsp needed (they still sell, but it is not required for a lot of plugins because they have native versions)

 

So if all these greedy conglomerates are such shitheels, how come some of you act like you're going to die if you don't get that plugin in your hands right away?

The company is so bad you refuse to do business with them, but you still jock their plugins left and right and can't live without them?

 

The Teams need this "free weapon" about as much as I need this compressor. Only R2R is likely to handle the paid UAD plugins, but there can be surprises sometimes. Still, for some reason I am speculating that they probably have access to....pretty much whatever they want?

If the whole UAD collection and it's copy protection being broken are hinging on some random kid with a free plugin and a hex editor, you might want to really consider reinstalling Waves.

 

Yes, this is the financial worst period, a month before Black Friday, with two wars going on. Anyway it's a great bundle, you have all you need to mix and record. Way better than Waves

 

Chris Lord Alge would tend to disagree with you. As the saying goes, "A poor tradesperson blames their tools".

 

Chris Lord Alge? maybe is the only one from W but Uad are transparent and light on cpu

 

Thanks for your head up @Huggy Bear

 

I got the LA-2A but then stopped when I saw it was making me get ilok. Is is stupid to ask if ilok would affect other *not exactly official* plugs I may have? Strongly considering this bundle, this was unimaginable a few years ago. The good work done here has a lot to do with it, eternally greatful!

 

Have you ever mixed with the UAD plugins? CLA has so many plugins inside the Waves ecosystem, of course he is going to say that. They are paying him for that, giving him access to programmers to make plugins he wants, and lots of other perks of that. These guys are like sponsored race car drivers, golfers, snowboarders, and all that kinds of stuff. They are pitch men for the products because they are Pros. But what they tell you is part of what they are paid for to work in that capacity. You have no clue what CLA actually uses in his projects just because of what he may say in some video. They pay Schepps too, and you can find videos of him saying he takes 6 weeks on one song and works entirely analog.

I love the Waves plugins, and after decades of using them many people know that bundle inside and out. They are great plugins. But if you honestly think they sound better than UAD plugins, I strongly suspect you have spent about 0 time using the UAD plugins of the same purposes. And I strongly dislike UAD, they are not about anything but making themselves money.

That is the kind of dick comment you throw at someone when you are in some position to do so. Who are you to even say that to someone?

 

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i was being particular on this one because they have something to hold on to a pre-existing license to reverse engineer it (regardless of who gives it, or even them getting it). since i've always seen that they tend to require a license in order to warez it

 

to my understanding, the cracked ones do not need ilok at all, so this shouldn't be a problem to install

 

legit ilok does not affect cracked stuff