Hi,
As I understand it, by agreement between Overloud and Deskew, TH-U software is distributed along with Gig Performer and licensees of GP are extended a license for Overloud’s TH-U Essentials product.
Correct?
If so, where/how is that license for TH-U Essentials established?
IOW, how does one become officially recognized at the Overloud site as a license holder for TH-U Essentials? (when the provenance of that is via Gig Performer)
Thanks to anyone who can definitively clarify that!
I don’t understand the question.
Overloud has given us permission to include an installer that you can optionally run when you install GP to get access to their free version. That’s it. There are no extra rights or anything that would require you to establish yourself at Overloud for this.
You can buy the full version of the plugin and there is a 10% discount available via the GP partners page should you decide to do that.
Hi. Thanks for your reply.
Is the “free version” as you mention it a different thing from TH-U Essentials?
I thought they were one-and-the-same, but perhaps this is not the case.
As can be seen on the page referenced above, TH-U Essentials is a licensed product, and Overloud deposits a license for it in the customer’s account when applicable.
P.S. I can see from web searches that TH-U Essentials is the “thing” included in a number of bundled promotions by other companies. It has also been explicitly mentioned here: THU plugin - #6 by miasei
It is the Essentials package — it’s prelicensed. Not sure I understand the concern nor the problem
If one is a registered owner of Overloud products, they can log into Overloud.com and see their various licenses, what computers those are active on, and manage those (e.g., remove one device, add another). Also download updates and other related content.
I own Th-U Premium, so I can’t replicate what that would look like to a Th-U Essentials user, or if that’s any different than the version installed by GP.
From my prior experience with other “Free” versions of software, the versions you get through a “partner” aren’t always the same as you get with the “free” version on the vendor’s site. e.g., when buying a Focusrite interface some years ago I got a free license key for Ableton Live Lite (or whatever they called it). While it appeared to be the same version that you could download from Ableton, there actually was a license key that enabled extra features and eliminated the “Demo mode” stuff.
I don’t recall seeing anyone else mention this “10 Minute Demo Session” problem with GP before, so either Overloud is doing something different now or there’s something peculiar about @progster’s setup.
Good description Vindes!
One path to being enabled per Overloud is to redeem a bundle code.
Maybe we should be getting a bundle code now? (for TH-U Essentials)
So, I ran a full un-install, then installed GP again from scratch, accepting also the TH-U portion of the installation.
I am now out of 10m Demo mode, and have an operational TH-U, which (per it’s content) seems quite similar to, but not literally identical to, the Overloud TH-U Essentials product. (ala Vindes’ comments above).
As the picture shows, there is one provided Bank (of 18 patches), called ‘TH-U Gig Performer’. It is operational upon installation, “pre-licensed” as dhj says above. All good!
So FWIW, technically speaking, this is not literally the Overloud TH-U Essentials product. Thus, if one’s goal is to work with what GP provides, do not attempt to download the Essentials product directly from Overload, or to license it. Installing GigP does not result in any licenses being deposited in an Overload account, nor is there a need for such. I would call it a “non-time-limited partner-provided special-case free trial”. Rock on!
It’s not a trial - since it doesn’t expire, nor generate artifacts, etc. It’s basically a limited version.
