Monday, December 22, 2008
If The Following Post Doesn't Make Any Sense, It's Because I've Not Had Much Sleep Over The Past Few Days And Am Ready To Collapse
I've had about a week and a half since I had my soundcard and other gear working properly (well, I still couldn't record anything from mics, but I've accepted that it'll probably never happen). About ten days, give or take, of relative recoring/arranging bliss before Something New happened:
Cubase decided that my license key is no longer valid and won't boot up. I need Cubase to access pretty much everything I've ever done, like, ever, as well as a bunch of my soft synths that exist only in VST form.
I figured it'd be a simple case of going online to reactivate it, as the online license management thingy has a feature for that very purpose. I could bore you with the details of exactly what I've been through up until this point to get it working, but instead I'll just tell you this:
It's long, woeful, sometimes painfully convoluted, repetetive and summarises about six hours of me working to fix the problem. Took me about forty minutes alone to figure out how to get in touch with their customer support people. Think Arthur Dent having the Vogons explain where their notice to demolish Earth was displayed and you're more or less playing a similar sport. It's times like this I think that I should just illegally crack the software and get on with life.
Here's hoping Internet's Police didn't hear that.
But seriously, I feel right now like technology's working against me to keep me from doing anything cool with it - bass pickups not working, Mandalas not being read by various software/s, preamps not cooperating, DAWs crashing...
Doesn't help that I'm also very, very lazy.
Cubase decided that my license key is no longer valid and won't boot up. I need Cubase to access pretty much everything I've ever done, like, ever, as well as a bunch of my soft synths that exist only in VST form.
I figured it'd be a simple case of going online to reactivate it, as the online license management thingy has a feature for that very purpose. I could bore you with the details of exactly what I've been through up until this point to get it working, but instead I'll just tell you this:
It's long, woeful, sometimes painfully convoluted, repetetive and summarises about six hours of me working to fix the problem. Took me about forty minutes alone to figure out how to get in touch with their customer support people. Think Arthur Dent having the Vogons explain where their notice to demolish Earth was displayed and you're more or less playing a similar sport. It's times like this I think that I should just illegally crack the software and get on with life.
Here's hoping Internet's Police didn't hear that.
But seriously, I feel right now like technology's working against me to keep me from doing anything cool with it - bass pickups not working, Mandalas not being read by various software/s, preamps not cooperating, DAWs crashing...
Doesn't help that I'm also very, very lazy.
