01-14-2019, 01:01 AM
(01-13-2019, 10:12 PM)Mattias Westlund Wrote: Just to provide a different perspective, I have used the iLok software for upwards of a decade now and I have never encountered any issues with it. From what i can tell it doesn't affect performance, it doesn't call home, it's just a service that lies dormant using hardly any resources until you launch an iLok-licensed plugin, at which point the plug checks with the service to see whether it's activated on this system or not. That's it. If there's any malign rootkit type shenaningans going on, I would be very interested to see any evidence of it. iLok's bad rap is largely due to their countless issues with hardware dongles in the past, we've probably all heard the horror stories. But the software works fine. Of course I'm just a single person so my experience has no statistical value, I just felt it warrants a mention.
I'll grant that my opinion was formed by a dongle-based experience over ten years old. I do feel that the iLok experience I had when I tried the Orchestral Companion demo was much smoother. I was bothered by the fact that Sonivox didn't mention that I needed it to run the demo, though.
In any case, I wouldn't want to scare anyone off of a perfectly suitable library based on my own subjective concerns. I'm sure I might one day find something I just have to have that requires iLok and find it's not all that bad.