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Originally Posted by John Eppstein  B) they put a big load on the system and waste a lot of cpu and clock cycles with incessant calls to the dongle hardware. The dongle can, under certain circumstances, hog as much as 30% of you available cpu. Without the dongle programs would run significantly faster and you could run more iterations of plugins. |
Are you serious? That is the biggest lie/myth that is propogated about dongles.
FYI in actualy real world tests between applications Cubase and Nuendo have slightly better performance than Sonar and slightly worse than Reaper.
How on earth can that be even remotely possible if the dongle takes up 30% of resources? How can that be even remotely possible if the dongle takes up any realtime resources worth mentioning at all?
Have a read through
the excellent DAWBench benchmarking site if you want to read a bit of scientific testing rather than regurgitating mumbo-jumbo about irrelevances you don't understand.
One major, major benefit of dongles (at least the Syncrosoft one who's new algorithms have remained uncracked for several years and counting) from my perspective is......
Only people who have paid for Cubase and Korg (the ones I use) can use them. I actually think companies who aren't looking at copy protection solution(s) that work are disrespecting their paying customers by enabling non-payers to use the same stuff for free.*
*Clearly this is a reletively new point to be made since the (new) Syncrosoft dongle is the only successful copy protection system ever made (AFAIK).