Open iLok Licence Manager and deactivate your Pro Tools licence, if you have other cloud ready licences then you can do the same for those too.Using Pro Tools With iLok Cloud In 5 Easy Steps If you do want to take advantage of using Pro Tools with iLok Cloud then read on or watch the video tutorial. Of course, if you don’t like all this Cloud stuff then stick with your physical iLok, it's just another option, no one is forcing you to use iLok Cloud. Our understanding is the server the iLok Clouds sit on has 99.978% availability and no scheduled downtime. Regarding probability, the chances of not having a connection are as likely as the cat eating your iLok. Yes, the internet might stop working, but conducting research for this article of the top 20 ISPs ranking them for internet uptime, the best scored 99.94% and the worst 99.44%. I'm going to recommend if you record bands in jungles on aeroplanes or the moon then this isn't going to work for you, or if you live in a place with poor internet connectivity then this isn't going to work for you.īut for most of us have internet connectivity nearly all the time, for goodness sake, most of us are joined at the hip to Facebook and Twitter all day, so it’s likely you have internet most of the time. Now one thing people will ask is what if you lose the Internet? I've removed the licence from my physical iLok and put it back into my iLok account ready for using via the cloud, so that whenever I want to use Pro Tools as long as I have an internet connection then I can get on to Pro Tools without having to worry about my physical iLok being plugged into the machine. One of the benefits of using Pro Tools and iLok Cloud is you can have Pro Tools on multiple machines and move between them as you wish, one at a time of course! Pro Tools is on my laptop and I've also got Pro Tools on my studio machine. It's very straightforward to use, and we show you how to use Pro Tools with iLok Cloud in the video tutorial. Starting with Pro Tools version 2018.1 you can now use Pro Tools without the physical iLok and instead use the iLok Cloud. This tutorial is about is how to run Pro Tools without a physical iLok. Now if you're reading this hoping to use Pro Tools without paying for it then stop reading now because that's not what this tutorial is about.

I want to talk about running Pro Tools without an iLok.

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