Graham, sort of but not really. They are in the same room, but about 3-4 meters away with a door in between. They are on the same home network, but that likely doesn't matter. Photos of my studio and setup can be seen here:
http://forum.hauptwerk.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=13940I've never thought about doing that, but now that you mention it, I guess it could be done. The process would entail hooking up the MIDI interface/out of my Finale/desktop mac to the MIDI interface/input of my HW computer, correct? Then use the HW setup as a AU virtual instrument in Finale? That would seem awfully hard to manage, with a lot of bouncing back and forth to set up and run stuff. Is that the case, or am I missing something?
It seems simpler to figure out a way to run HW as an AU on the same computer on which I'm using Finale. I have thought about keeping HW4 with the dongle running on my desktop/Finale mac, while running HW5 on my console mac, but from what I understand, that would not work, as upgrading to V on my console mac will nuke the dongle for use with any copy of HW. It might be different if I bought V outright rather than upgraded, but that seems like a lot to pay for a functionality that may still be too much of a pain to use with any frequency.
Or, would it be better to just install V on both machines, switching the iLok back and forth to enable V on the machine I am using at any given time, and use Finale to drive HW only with unencrypted sample sets that can be used on both machines?