Problem with Logic Pro and Soft eLicenser on Mountain Lion?

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Problem with Logic Pro and Soft eLicenser on Mountain Lion?

Hi!

I have a bunch of Arturia synths, which requires the Soft eLicenser to work. This has always worked great with Lion, never any problems with eLicenser (never had to open it etc.)

Now - I upgraded to Mountain Lion, and tested my synths to make sure everything was OK, experienced a bunch of problems, and did a full recovery to clean Mountain Lion.

After installing the Arturia synths, and adding my licenses, I installed Logic. Everything worked fine!

BUT!

When I closed an Arturia synth within Logic, or closed Logic after running a project with one of these synths, I couldn't reopen any of these synths within Logic afterwards - In fact, I couldn't open the stand-alones either! And when I tried to open the eLicenser Control Center, it would just say "Reading eLicensers" forever. After a reboot, everything is OK.

I can open and close eLicenser Control Center and standalone synths as many times as I want, as long as I don't open Logic, and then Arturia synths as an AU in Logic.

I found a workaround: Open the eLicenser Control Center, and let in run in the background (cmd+H), and then open Logic. Then I could open Arturia synths and close them, close Logic and reopen etc. without any problems at all. NO PROBLEMS.

Until I close the eLicenser Control Center, then I have to reboot to be able to start it again.

I hope you understand what I mean here. It's a bit hard to explain.

In short terms: Logic makes Soft eLicenser crash when a eLicenser synth has been opened as an AU.

The same problem is when scanning the AU with AU manager. eLicenser window should be open before scanning.

Does ANYBODY have the same problems? Can anyone who has these applications test it out?

Posted on Oct 3, 2012 2:18 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 3, 2012 8:34 PM in response to KeyDemon

I had this problem too, tried your workaround, that worked and then I found this discussion.

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KeyDemon Author

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Oct 4, 2012 3:15 AM in response to Joseph LeVie

So it definitely seems to be a issue with Logic.

I can't force this error in 10.7.X no matter how hard I try, but in 10.8.2 it's definitely Logic messing things up.

Could it be auvaltool which has a bug? Or is that only run with AU manager on validation?

Hopefully this discussion can get some attention, and maybe it could be corrected. I guess a lot of Logic Pro users also has eLicenser Control Center for validation of their products.

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Answer 3

Oct 4, 2012 7:52 AM in response to KeyDemon

I don't have Arturia, but I do have a couple other plugins that use elicenser and haven't had any problems with Logic.

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Oct 4, 2012 8:47 PM in response to KeyDemon

Sorry, my link didn't post. I didn't want to take credit for someone else's solution. I reset the PRAM and everything's fine now. I was having the same trouble as KeyDemon on my Arturia products both standalone and in Digital Performer. KeyDemon's workaround worked, but, required you to leave the eLicenser Control Center open all of the time. After resetting PRAM, everything went back to normal. I didn't even know that there was other software using eLicenser.

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