User Manual

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WAVELAB
Installing and setting up 3 – 23
Installation procedure
The Steinberg Key
Please read the following section before installing the WaveLab software.
Included with the WaveLab package, you will find the Steinberg Key
(sometimes referred to as a “dongle”), a hardware copy protection device
that is part of the WaveLab copy protection scheme. WaveLab will not
run if there is no Steinberg Key.
The Steinberg Key
The Steinberg Key is, in fact, a little computer on which your Steinberg
software licenses are stored. All hardware-protected Steinberg products
use the same type of key, and you can store more than one license on one
key. Also, licenses can (within certain limits) be transferred between keys
– which is helpful, e.g. if you want to sell a piece of software.
If you already own copy-protected Steinberg software, you must remove
any existing Steinberg Keys from the computer’s USB port before starting
the WaveLab installation routine.
If you are using other copy-protected Steinberg products, you may want
to transfer all licenses for your applications to only one Steinberg Key,
thus using only one USB port of your computer. More information on the
transfer of licenses between keys can be found in the help for the Syn-
crosoft License Control Center (which can be found in the Start/Pro-
grams menu of your computer).
The Steinberg Key must not be plugged in before the installation of Wave-
Lab. Otherwise the operating system of your computer will register it as
new USB hardware and try to find drivers that won’t be present before
WaveLab installation.