I was infected with TB from µTonic but I caught the bacterial infection early and my doctor prescribed me the latest cocktail of antibiotics to treat it. She says I should be feeling better in a couple of weeks. My advice would be to stay away from that nasty Patternarium crowd and just pretend that they're lepers, don't let them breath on you or linger in the same room for long, like 30 seconds tops!

 

Yes, you're right.
There are many nasty developers out there with way worst protections, I agree... it's just that I don't like this particular way of delayed bombing.
It's not nice to make a "potential" customer feel like a fool.
So I feel on my right to look elsewhere from now on, even though I didn't got to use the cracked version at all.

 

I have immense respect for devs that make high quality, non-intrusive copy protection. Xfer, U-he & D16 are others, though D16 seems to be easier than the former 3.

 

So Im assuming no sense in installing SonicCharge plugins even R2R versions ?

Only way to work is to buy them?

 

Sonic Charge - Microtonic

Buy it - €99 ---> https://soniccharge.com/microtonic

Buying Microtonic grants you full usage rights, free support, and service updates.
Your license is linked to the email used during checkout.

 

Great plugin. Great dev. Worth support his work.

 

As an aside, if you pirate a product "to evaluate" it for more than a year you're not a potential customer. Be honest about it, just say that you like nicking free shit and don't hide behind that bullshit.

*edit:* The worst bit about registering this plugin is that you lose the cool robot voice, but there's an easter egg... leave the About screen running for a bit and strange things will happen.

 

.nfo

Before we are going to show Sonic Charge's protection, you should know about
the difference between "strong" protection and "tricky" protection.

Strong : WrapWarden (iLok), MetaFortress, VMProtect, Themida,
Ax/IxProtector (CodeMeter), ARXAN

Tricky : Sonic Charge, U-he, Xfer, (You know there are many others!)


[Strong] protection requires deep knowledge of cryptography, CPU architecture,
or executable file format (EXE/DLL). [Strong] protection cannot be cracked
by changing few bytes from original. Crackers may need to decrypt, emulate,
hook, rebuild datas to claim the win. This process can require good coding
skill to complete the job in human time. Most commercial protectors are
classified as this [Strong] protection.

[Tricky] protection does not have those [Strong] ways. However, they
have many tricks to avoid being cracked 100%, by delaying the extra check
in many ways. While good crackers should have ideas to find those tricks
easier, there are no solid ways to find all tricks. It is not difficult to
pass the extra check once after the cracker found it. The problem is always
how to find it.

* Acustica Audio should be weak [Strong] protection <easy for experienced
crackers, not possible for others>

* In the real world, cracker who doesn't make an effort to learn for the
[Strong] protection, tends to not making an effort to find extra checks in
[Tricky] protection



Sonic Charge Protection
-----------------------

There are 3 types of the protection inside.

* Trial expiration check

Trial is available for 3 weeks. It doesn't just mean you can't run the
plugin after 3 weeks. You cannot load patch made over 3 weeks ago. Lazy
trial reset does not solve 3-weeks-preset problem.

* Registration check

It verifies license using MD5 Hash. Bitspeek, Echobode, Permut8, Synplant
have only core license check. Microtonic3 has extra registration checks in
many places. Some functions have double checks (2nd check will be triggered
after 3 weeks). We can say Microtonic3 is way more protected than others.

Some checks in Microtonic3 are not simple true/false check. It should be
difficult for the crackers who cannot make valid license.

* Integrity check

There are some self-integrity-checks to detect file modification. There are
lots of checks in many places.


Shorter than you expected? Because it's easy to say "checks in many places".



So, are these working this time?
--------------------------------

No one (except the developer) can guarantee the perfection for those [Tricky]
protection. Anyway, we reversed how the registration and integrity check work,
and we carefully chose the way to registrate the license. No bypassing in our
work. Program code flow is working as it is. DLL file is untouched (bye bye
integrity check!). Hope our magic works

 

Just to clarify, as the sonic charge lawyer is here... I never heard about this dev before, never used any of these plugins

 

you can get it back officially using Soniccharge Permut8 with Reciter firmware it's the same algorithm

 

better use

Spoiler: spoiler

for these kind of posts ;)

 

Introduction to Sonic Charge MicroTonic

Microtonic Demonstration

 

Sure, and it's great, though I prefer using Bitspeek (again by Sonic Charge) with my own voice with live/automated tweaking. You get pretty freaky cheap computer-like vocals that way.

 

The hardest part for them to find these kinds of bombs is waiting around until they happen. One of their nfo files about this plugin even says that somewhere. They might just fix it again, before anyone gets all crazy about it.

 

Why not pay and reward a manufacturer who does good work and creates useful instruments for their work?
That used to be mentioned in many NFOs!

 

Yes Magnus knows his stuff very well, tough rival for hackers because he is himself from old demo scene, one of few developers whose approach I really like it's hacky and homebrew but in an polished perfection, all his audio crafts are something special

 

Lots of skins to choose from, something you wish other manufacturers would offer!

 

I think it is not just for the $99, but the challenge to find and defeat all the protections

I agree with you, people that uses the plugin every time AND are making money with their music, the PROs have to buy it.
However, in development countries, $99 it's a fortune, specially for people that are NOT making any money with their art.
Here, in my 3rd world, the wage of a normal worker is around $300.

Poor people wanna make Art and (I agree that) they don't NEED the sonic charge plugins for that.
But I would not condemn my brothers, because I think that this type of attitude represents civil disobedience (Henry David Thoreau), a form of rebellion and that, my friend, is an essential function of art made by poor people.

I do not stimulate Piracy, I know the sonic charge dev needs to feed his family and (maybe) he is a great guy, but, you have to understand,in some contexts he represents the established power, the one by which these people feel exploited from 9 to 9, 6 days a week.