Survey = What's the most -annoying- demo restriction?

[Ildon]

I hate noise bursts. Why do developers insist on putting a noise in a demo that's twice as loud as the instrument you're trying to play? It's startling sometimes! Does it really need to be so god damned loud?

ahem.

The best demo restriction is being unable to save stuff. FLStudio's demos (like their soundfont player) are like that and it's a wonderful thing.

[thenumber23]

I have to vote "X amount of days until plug dies", where X is 0. Native Instruments holds the dubious honor of releasing some demos that time out before your first use.

Next in line is Hypersonic which requires a Syncrosoft dongle to use their demo.

The least-annoying to me is Vember Audio Surge. They periodically convert the audio signal from regular to a ring-mod version for about one second, then revert back to the regular signal. This is non-distracting, yet subtly lets you know you are using a demo.

Brian

[JackDark]

Looks like periodic silence saves the day. Funny, that was my original intent.

[JackDark]

But seeing as you are researching for your product, a best thread would probably be more useful. The worst only rules out the method you hate the most, leaving you with the ones you casually despise.

Nay you merely invert the data... least voted upon = best.

[ianweb123]

I vote for the one where it leeches your paypal passwords and automatically buys itself if you haven't done so already after 7 days..

Hang on, that might not be such a bad idea