Licence: this Mac and its modules

Setup > Licence shows this Mac's licence the way your account at shadowrack.eu does: who it's for, what's in it, what runs on this Mac. It's also where you switch a module off on one Mac and free the Mac's place when you move to another. Open Setup (⌘,) and click LICENCE.

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1. 1Who it's for: the name, the email and this Mac's name
2. 2The state: ACTIVE
3. 3WHAT IT HAS: how many of the three parts are in the licence
4. 4A module's switch: on or off on this Mac
5. 5Check again
6. 6My account at shadowrack.eu
7. 7Deactivate this Mac

Who and which Mac since 0.5#

At the top: a circle with initials, the name the licence is for (or the email), then email - this Mac's name. A Mac activated with files, without internet, adds activated without internet.

The chip on the right says where this Mac stands:

What it has#

One row per module, with its logo, name and line:

• Shadow Rack FX – Your plugins on the channels
• Shadow Rack IEM – The musicians' 360 in-ear mixes
• Shadow Rack WING Extension – The Behringer WING runs the rack and the in-ears

On the left, 3 of 3 parts (or fewer). A module in the licence has a switch. One that isn't says Not in this licence and has a Get it link to the shop. What each module brings: Modules.

Switching a module off on this Mac#

The switches are for Macs that do one job. A Mac that only runs the in-ears at the monitor desk doesn't need Rack FX: switch it off there and that Mac starts straight into the in-ears.

• A switch only changes this Mac. The licence and your other Macs stay as they are.
• It takes effect at the next start. Until then the row says Off after a restart or On after a restart in yellow. After the restart, a module switched off reads Switched off on this Mac.
• Rack FX and Rack IEM can't both be off – one of them is the app. Switch off the last one and the other comes back on (or the same one, if the licence doesn't have the other).
• Without Rack FX there are no rack channels. A session you open keeps its channels in the file, untouched, for when Rack FX is back on.
• Without Rack IEM there's no IEM layer and no in-ear engine.

The restart bar#

As soon as a switch differs from what's running, a yellow bar appears: Switched on or off: Shadow Rack starts with it after a restart.

Restart now asks first: Restart Shadow Rack? – The audio stops for a few seconds while it starts again. Your rack is saved. Restart quits Shadow Rack and opens it again by itself. You don't have to use the button: the change also applies the next time you start Shadow Rack yourself.

Check again#

Bought another module? Click Check again (it reads Checking... for a moment). The new module's row gets a switch and On after a restart; restart and it's there. The same check also runs by itself, in the background, every time Shadow Rack starts – the start never waits for it.

My account at shadowrack.eu opens your account in the browser: your Macs, your licences, what you've bought.

Deactivate this Mac#

A licence covers three Macs. To move to a new one, free this Mac's place first:

You can do the same from My account at shadowrack.eu, for a Mac you no longer have.

When the licence goes away by itself#

Shadow Rack checks with shadowrack.eu at every start, in the background. If the answer is that this Mac's licence is gone – deactivated on the website or another Mac, refunded or revoked – you're told at once, This Mac isn't activated any more, and nothing stops: Shadow Rack keeps running until you quit it - nothing stops now. At its next start it asks for activation.

No internet is never a reason. A Mac activated online has to see the internet once in 60 days; a Mac activated with files never has to. More in Activating Shadow Rack.