This is not funny, Bitwig

[coroknight]

As a software engineer I'm inclined to cut them some slack.

Not sure I agree. I look after IT for a manufacturing company and I hate to imagine the responses I would get if I told our production managers that we can't use our tube laser machines because of the connection to a server a thousand miles away!

Of the web services I use, Bitwig’s auth service has been one of the most stable. You really can’t compare laser software to web services just like you can’t compare laser software to NASA space shuttle software.

[mevla]

Will offline registration get rid of the server need to run local software ?

[excuse me please]

Or maybe they should limit their alcohol consumption. What a blunder!

Or maybe you should limit your posts to kvr if thats the only insulting thing you can post.

If that is truly the case, then you are not very cooperative, I must say. Try to stay on topic, please.

[slackhead]

You really can’t compare laser software to web services

Try telling that to a budding composer whose just about to miss the deadline on his first major break.

[coroknight]

You really can’t compare laser software to web services

Try telling that to a budding composer whose just about to miss the deadline on his first major break.

I think you’re twisting my words. Have a nice day.

[excuse me please]

Well, these things can happen. People take things waaay too seriously nowadays IMO.

[slackhead]

Have a nice day.

You too

[Karlatin]

Will offline registration get rid of the server need to run local software ?

For my offline machine - the one I actually do work with - I have gone through the offline registration process and it has stayed activated. That is, I haven't had the recent temporary deactivation as mentioned by others in this thread. My other activated client is a linux box which is nearly always online but which i only use to e.g. check for updates. This one will see Bitwig revert back down to something like 8Track in rare circumstances of it going offline. So its version of activation expects to see a regualar internet connection, whereas my windows workstation is content, now, to not see one.

There is a problem with the offline-registered computer and this new beta, though. When I install beta 2 it asks for my key, which i provide, and then promptly does nothing. There is now no option to USB-shuttle-authorize the version 4 Beta, dunno if it will let me authorize my machine until the final is released.

[stamp]

Betas needs to be on line on first launch. After that you can use it offline until expiration.

[mevla]

Betas needs to be on line on first launch. After that you can use it offline until expiration.

Related question, is it possible to run a beta version alongside an official version on same machine ? Taking care not to open existing projects with the beta, that is.

[FlareStar]

You still talking about this? Shit happens. Move on.

[arrakeen]

Do people know much of the internet broke yesterday?

[ihearanewworld]

Lighten up, Bitwig was just trying to be funny!(??)

But really, humanity is always just a click or two away from chaos and destruction. Bitwig was not the only service with internet problems yesterday:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/9/2252 ... g-customer

[Nemirov]

Now I'm thinking about the scenario where I use bad mobile data internet or some proxy/vpn/firewall locking some urls and Bitwig will get wrong answer from "server" and will become demo and loose a project same way...

[liquidsound]

Now I'm thinking about the scenario where I use bad mobile data internet or some proxy/vpn/firewall locking some urls and Bitwig will get wrong answer from "server" and will become demo and loose a project same way...

That’s why an offline activation should be immune to this scenario and I hope it is.