Rational Acoustics, LLC 241 Church Street, Suite H Putnam, CT 06260 USA Tel. (+1) 860 928-7828 www.RationalAcoustics.com Licensing and Installation The licensing system deployed with Smaart v.7 provides you with greater control of your activated systems than any previous Smaart version. By reading and understanding this document, you can spend more time measuring sound and less time messing with licensing. If you can't find the answers you are looking for here, feel free to send an email to [email protected], or give us a call at +1-860-928-7828 Mon-Fri, 9 AM-5 PM EST(UTC -5). Table of Contents my.RationalAcoustics.com ............................................................................................................................ 2 Registering a License ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Installing Smaart v7 ....................................................................................................................................... 3 Software Installation on Windows® .......................................................................................................... 3 Software Installation on Mac OS X® ......................................................................................................... 3 Activating an Installation .............................................................................................................................. 4 Option 1: If this computer is connected to the Internet... ....................................................................... 5 **A note on Managing Multi-User Licenses** ..................................................................................... 6 Option 2: If this computer is not connected to the Internet... ................................................................. 7 Deactivation .................................................................................................................................................. 8 Moving Smaart to a New Computer -or- Reformatting your Operating System ...................................... 8 Using Time Machine, Migration Utilities, or Cloning Software .............................................................. 10 Upgrading your Operating System or Major System Components ........................................................ 10 Reactivation ................................................................................................................................................ 10 Reactivating a Smaart Installation on a Deactivated Computer ............................................................. 10 Reactivating after restoring from a backup or after migrating system files ........................................... 10 Terms .......................................................................................................................................................... 12 1 | P age Copyright © 2013 Rational Acoustics LLC. All rights reserved. Rational Acoustics and Smaart are registered trademarks of Rational Acoustics LLC. Check out our YouTube videos here! my.RationalAcoustics.com If you purchased a new license or upgrade of Smaart v.7 online, you should have received an email with a link to download the Smaart v.7 installers. You can also access the latest installers at any time by logging into your user account at http://my.RationalAcoustics.com. If you received an installation CD-ROM when you purchased Smaart v.7, we still recommend visiting the web site to download the latest installer rather than installing from the CD-ROM. Installers will not appear in your licensing account until your license is registered. If you previously purchased and registered Smaart v6 through EAW ( v6 licenses purchased prior to April 2010), you will already have an account at http://my.RationalAcoustics.com, since all my.EAW.com accounts have been transferred to our site. Smaart v6 account names were almost always the email address used when purchasing the product. If you already have an account, but have forgotten your password, the web site can e-mail your account information to the email address associated with your account. You can also contact Rational Acoustics for assistance. License management accounts at my.RationalAcoustics.com are not synchronized with Rational Store accounts. You must have a license management account to register your license. 2 | P age Copyright © 2013 Rational Acoustics LLC. All rights reserved. Rational Acoustics and Smaart are registered trademarks of Rational Acoustics LLC. Check out our YouTube videos here! Registering a License After purchasing Smaart v.7, the first thing you should do is register the license code to an account at my.RationalAcoustics.com . License registration can be done either from within your account or through the registration dialog in the installer. If you don't have an account, you can create one from within the activation wizard -or- open your web browser, navigate to my.RationalAcoustics.com, and click on the link that reads "Click here to create a new account". Once logged in, click the link to "Register a new Smaart License" and enter your license code when prompted. The license code must be entered exactly as it appears on your package, with dashes and full capitalization. Once a license has been registered you can simply click on it in the list of licenses on the "Your Software License" section of your account to manage your installations. Installing Smaart v7 The Smaart installers work like any other installer for Windows and Mac operating systems. The same installers can be used on both 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. Software Installation on Windows® Initial installation of Smaart v.7 on the Windows operating system is done using a setup program that operates very much like virtually any other software installation program for Microsoft Windows. Note that on Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems, administrator authority is required to perform the installation. If the login account you are installing under is not an administrator account, you will be required to supply administrator credentials during installation. Other than that, you only need to read and agree to the End User License Agreement (EULA) confirm selection of the folder where the program will be installed, and choose whether or not to have the installer program create a shortcut for Smaart on your desktop. Software Installation on Mac OS X® Smaart v.7 for Mac OS X is supplied in the form of a Mac application bundle, so installation is simply a matter of dragging the Smaart v.7 icon into your Applications folder. Note that Smaart v.7 is distributed in a disk image file that requires you to agree to the End User License Agreement (EULA) before you can access to the software packed inside. Installing Smaart v.7 signifies your acceptance of the terms of this license. Once you have read and agreed to the EULA you can drag the Smaart v.7 icon in your applications folder, and then if you like, drag it from your applications folder to your dock to create a shortcut to the program. 3 | Page Copyright © 2013 Rational Acoustics LLC. All rights reserved. Rational Acoustics and Smaart are registered trademarks of Rational Acoustics LLC. Check out our YouTube videos here! Activating an Installation When you run Smaart for the first time, an activation screen will appear (see below). You will need to activate your installation before you can use the software. Before you can Activate! There are four basic requirements for activating a Smaart v.7 installation: • You must have a valid Smaart v.7 license code (XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX). • Your license code must be registered to an account at my.RationalAcoustics.com -or- you must be prepared to register it through the activation dialog. • You must have one or more installation spots available on your license. • You must have internet access on or near the computer you are trying to activate. Smaart Activation Screen (Please note that the machine ID above is for demonstration purposes only. Your unique machine ID will be generated by Smaart.) 4 | P age Copyright © 2013 Rational Acoustics LLC. All rights reserved. Rational Acoustics and Smaart are registered trademarks of Rational Acoustics LLC. Check out our YouTube videos here! Option 1: If this computer is connected to the Internet... The Activate Online option will handle most of the details of registering a new installation for you, including creating a user account for you if you don't already have one, registering your license if necessary, and activating your installation. To begin the online activation process, click "Activate Online Now" button. This will take you to the screen shown below. At this point the process differs somewhat depending on whether or not you have created a licensing account and registered your Smaart v.7 license to it. You will begin by selecting the appropriate option in the left-hand column. • This license has already been registered. Select this option if your Smaart v.7 license has already been registered to your user account at my.rationalacoustics.com. In this case all you need to know is your Smaart v.7 license code and a password for your user account. • I want to register this license to my existing Smaart 6 or Smaart 7 user account. Select this option if your Smaart v.7 license has not been previously registered but you already have an existing user account at my.rationalacoustics.com. • I