[LUG] Re: [LAW] Platinum upgrade

Vimlesh Banwari Narayan <vbnbanwariyahoo.com>

Hi Dandi and Danny,

History.
After Apple 'took-over' Emagic and stopped all PC
development they offered a cross platform 'key' to all
registered LAWP 5 users to entice them to switch to
Macs.

First upgrade on the Mac was LAMP 6.

Upto this point all s/w instruments (ES1, ES2, EVOC,
EVP88, EVB3, EVD6, etc) were only available
individually.

Then Apple anounced Logic Pro 6 which included space
designer and ALL s/w instruments that were previously
available for sale individually with a list of $1 000
new or upgrade from LAS 5, LAG 5, LAP 5, LAP 6 costing
between $300 - $600.

At this point all blue XS-keys were 'cross platform
compliant' if Logic Pro 6 was first installed on a mac
and the permanent codes obtained from 'Emagic'
authorised on the blue xs-key on the mac. I did
exactly this. Since i had LAWP 5.5.1 I upgraded 2 LP6
($300) and got all the s/w instruments that now are
standard ... of course i had already bought some of
them individually so this 'offer' hurt my pockets
abit.

This should answer your first query and no that
commentator was dead wrong because there was both LAMP
6 and LP6.

Then support for emagic products switched to Apple and
LP7 came out including an upgrade (for $300) from LP6
2 LP7 ... at this point the 'blue xs-keys' were
'dropped' and the new xs-keys were needed for LP7 to
work.

According to the technical stuff flying about around
that time, Apple comfirmed that LP7 REQUIRED the new
XS-Key. BUT i cannot confirm as i did not buy the LP6
2 LP7 upgrade.

Your best bet would be to buy the 'permanent codes'
for LP6 from your friend ... you should actually get
the xs-key from her with all s/w authorised already
then go to Apple's support pages and make her
'transfer' her ownership of the codes to you. If you
do not do this then Apple will still think that she is
the registered owner of that key and all associated
codes.

I can confirm that LP6 audio instruments and efx works
on my LAWP 5.5.1 machine EXCEPT for the 'newer' AIs
and Efx post LAWP 5..5.1

When you have time and money you can upgrade to LP7 on
a Mac.

I still use LAWP 5.5.1 because i don't really want to
switch to Macs even though i do need features of
LP6/LP7. However all my work can be transferred to a
studio that does use LP6 or LP7.

I'm seriously contemplating moving to Nuendo or Sonar
6 as the s/w has developed to such a level that the
results are going to be pretty much the same if i use
Sonar 6 or LAWP 5.5.1 on a PC. I still prefer logic
though.

take care and i hope this helps.

Vim

V. B. Narayan 
AFF01/02 Coordinator
PDSU DFL-SC
USP