I occasionally slice up stuff like this for intros, fills or seasoning in stuff that I’m doing (jazz, rock or free form) that is usually fairly hard edged to start with. YMMV
I know I’m in the minority here, but I find most of the EZKeys MIDI (not all, but including the new Folk set) to have the inspirational quality of elevator music.
Advise doing the free trial before purchase. This crashes the latest Studio One Pro on two different Lenovo Windows 10 Pro computers I have. OTOH others have apparently not had this problem with S1. Note that S1 is not one of the DAWs supported by Relab.
Still not sure I would consider the machine licensing “hardware based”, but I understand your larger point. Out of curiosity, have people had substantial issues with ilock machine licensing, when upgrading from Windows 10 to 11? I’m still on 10,
EDIT: BTW, until recently I’ve had a similar problem with non-ilock Celemony to the one you’ve expressed concern about. Every time I had a BIOS update, Melodyne would lose its authorization.
I guess I’m still not understanding fully your last point. For me, the objectionable “hardware” aspect of ilock is the USB dongle, which is not required for machine-based ilock licensing. I see the underlying ilock “driver” as software rather than hardware, and not materially different than the “product managers” most software companies use.
I understand guys objecting to the ilock dongle and the ilock cloud licensing. But what’s the objection to the ilock machine-based licensing that companies like PSP and Soundtoys offer as an alternative? In both of those cases, same time licensing on two computers is available.
Maybe not cheap in absolute terms…..but perhaps the best value in all of audio. And I don’t believe it ever goes on sale for less than these periodic 50% off sales.