How you deal with plugins - installers, license keys, website logins/passwords, etc.
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- KVRAF
- 7794 posts since 20 Jul, 2004 from Clearwater
I organize installers on a backup drive by company name and include the registration info on text files, and I keep website logins in a Mac Keychain file.
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- KVRian
- 676 posts since 3 May, 2004
I use a separate email account just for audio related stuff. I keep all plugin installers and license details in a Dropbox account, associated with that email account. I try to keep the files updated from time to time.
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- Banned
- 465 posts since 15 Apr, 2020
I have a separate folder in my e-mail account for registrations / serials / key files relating to my audio plugins. Additionally I have a speadsheet that lists all the audio related login details.
Also, I mainly use plugins from
developers who support user-friendly installation and offline plugin activation, no dongles and "authorization managers" for me.
I also limit my collection of plugins as others have suggested as well. I don't need dozens of EQs and compressors and so on. I tend to use plugins that cover wide ground, for example TDR Nova can be used as a regular EQ, a dynamic EQ, a de-esser and de-harsher and as a compressor. Those are the tools I like!
Also, I mainly use plugins from
developers who support user-friendly installation and offline plugin activation, no dongles and "authorization managers" for me.
I also limit my collection of plugins as others have suggested as well. I don't need dozens of EQs and compressors and so on. I tend to use plugins that cover wide ground, for example TDR Nova can be used as a regular EQ, a dynamic EQ, a de-esser and de-harsher and as a compressor. Those are the tools I like!
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- KVRian
- 1342 posts since 8 May, 2018 from Sweden
I have a folder structure on my NAS. Plugins are sorted into folders by Effects or Instrument, then by developer. Inside each developer subfolder, I store the installers and a text document with all the relevant details like passwords and serial numbers. Samples and preset packs are organized in a similar fashion.
When it comes to logins to websites, I use LastPass.
When it comes to logins to websites, I use LastPass.
Take a single oscillator, producing a drone. Send it to the wave shaper, altering the tone.
This can be a triangle, Sawtooth or a square. Modulate the pulse width, nobody will care
This can be a triangle, Sawtooth or a square. Modulate the pulse width, nobody will care
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- Banned
- Topic Starter
- 11467 posts since 4 Jan, 2017 from Warsaw, Poland
Thanks @everyone! 
I'm really surprised how dilligent some of you are with this! I'll try to implement some of those ideas as well
I'm really surprised how dilligent some of you are with this! I'll try to implement some of those ideas as well
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- KVRAF
- 8588 posts since 29 Sep, 2010 from Maui
I've kept backups for installers for years, one thing I learned after 15 yrs or so, is that there's really no point in doing that. After a while the stuff wont work anyway, and 99% of the time you can download it again from somewhere. Dev's keep everything, unless they go out of business, in which case someone else will often have it...