Simultaneous Installation

A single SynthEyes seat license or cross-platform license can be installed and used on a second (physical) machine only if all of the following conditions hold:

• You are the actual owner of the SynthEyes license—and every machine on which it is installed, AND
• You (a single person) are the only user of those machines (for any purpose), AND
• You are using the machines only for the benefit of the same business or person, AND
• Each machine's operating system matches the license you purchased.

So, to cover some of the common pitfalls:

• You cannot install a license onto a shared workstation, and then onto your laptop for field trips;
• You cannot install a company-owned “work license” onto your personally-owned desktop or laptop at home;
• You cannot install a license for one user and an older version of that same license for a different user;
• You cannot install a “Universal” macOS build onto an Intel-Mac and onto an Apple Silicon Mac (unless it satisfies all the conditions listed above);
• You cannot purchase a Mac license and install it on a Windows computer (a cross-platform license is required);
• You cannot install a cross-platform license into Windows for one user and into macOS for a different user;
• You cannot install a single license onto multiple machines (in violation of the conditions above), with the assertion “only one person will be using it at a time” — even if that is true or even electronically enforced.

In each case, an additional seat or cross-platform license is required.

These conditions apply equally to cross-platform licenses. The cross-platform license can only be installed to a second machine, even if it is running a different operating system, only if the conditions above are satisfied. You can not install a single cross-platform license for multiple users! It is one license, not two or three.

Floating Licenses

We offer several types of floating licenses for larger enterprises where they make sense, notably where a number of tracking artists must work on a much larger pool of machines, when cloud licensing is required, or to simplify administration with heavy artist turnover.

Depending on the usage scenario, seat licenses may preferable: floating licenses are not automatically a cheaper way to provision a group of occasional users. Seat licensing will always provide a higher peak capacity.