The Sound Board

Didn't see this coming... posted on their Facebook page:



All quite odd really. They said they had to ditch their serial number system because of piracy. What changed, I wonder?

On the face of it, it sounds like they’ve decided that the extra income from M1 compatibility outweighs the increased piracy from dropping Codemeter.

Best,

Geoff

1.8 is out now. Here's the update steps I took on W10 which worked fine:

Went to main website, clicked on Avenger Account top right
Logged in, Downloaded Avenger (in fact it downloads V-Manager.exe)
Windows reported download suspicious as it "wasn't frequently downloaded", right clicked to keep.
Installed V-Manager over current version (after another security warning)
Red dot on VPS Avenger, 3 activations remaining
Clicked Download Installer at the top
Installed Avenger.exe over existing version
Loaded Cubase, inserted Avenger, message saying "no license found" and an option to activate online which I did.
Deleted instance, reloaded, all working fine.
Uninstalled Codemeter Runtime from Add/Remove Programs
Everything still working!

1.8.0 changelog

- Avenger is now working on Apple M1 native
- switched copy protection from Codemeter back to keyfile
- added: when preset search is visible, the prev/next button will cycle through the search results instead of loading the next preset from the "normal" expansion list
- added "FAVORITE" icon to preset search to toggle Fav's during search
- added detection for some specific chord ( min7-3, maj7-3 )
- added ARP triggered incremental mod source
- fixed: fx Phaser does not move when spread parameter is modulated
- fixed: arp chord detections hangs on last chord until a full chord is triggered again (happened on specific circumstances)
- FX impulse: fixed problem where textedit did not update the fx
- fixed: osc display did display the wrong start offset in specific circumstances
- fixed a crash: when changing the legato mode on the pitch tab may try to retrigger also inactive oscs that causes a crash on specific circumstances
- fixed a possible crash in pitch-module preset load
-fixed issue with loop playback in multi-loop module in specific circumstances
- fixed midi note hang in specific circumstances
- fixed: drumkit triggers modenvelope, even if osc-only mode is used as trigger for the mod-envelope
- fixed an OpenGL issue that deleted Textures from other application when closing Avenger's GUI
- fixed macOS: drag n drop onto Wavetable/Resampler sample display is now working as expected
- fixed a possible bug where the Avenger completely muted using sample stacker
- fixed a rare crash when loading presets while the ARP editor was visible