Hi Brett, I'm considering purchasing two of your sample sets in the next few days: the Skinner and the Metz. I do have a bit of an unusual situation; I do not yet have a HW setup, but am considering buying these because of the holiday sale. Is there going to be any problem because I don't have a HW dongle? I know there has to be some sort of activation process that has to happen. While I'm on that note ...could you or someone else be kind enough to give me a cliff's notes on how the dongle works? So I order HW, which comes with a dongle, what exactly is the process of activating a sample set on a dongle?
Hello,
You can purchase sample sets at any time with or without having a dongle. If you purchase the sample sets prior to ordering Hauptwerk, then generally the dongle will be updated before it is shipped to you, thus once you receive it it will be ready to go and the sets may be played.
The process of dongle updating is most commonly done via an email file attachment from Crumhorn Labs which is applied to the dongle through a menu option within Hauptwerk itself. Once you receive Hauptwerk, you will see how it works. This is the method for those that already have the dongle. In your case, if you order the two sets now the dongle would be updated before being shipped.
So, you are safe to order the sets prior to ordering Hauptwerk if that is your main concern.