Activate Your License

This tutorial is a placeholder. The activation surface is still being built, so there is no click sequence to give you yet, and a walkthrough with invented button names is worse than no walkthrough.

Here is what is settled, described at the level of what it does rather than where you click.

What activation is for

Fusor Studio runs unlicensed. You can set it up, load fusors, run transitions, author actions and use Pad Mode without a licence. That's everything the previous tutorials cover, plus everything in the two that follow this one about actions. A licence lifts two limits on how the Player runs a transition, and unlocks authoring your own fusors.

Which limits, and why the unlicensed state is generous rather than crippled, is on the Licensing page. That's the page to read; this one will only ever carry the mechanics.

What it will involve

Activation is a one-time step inside Fusor Studio, and it works by signing in rather than by typing a key. There are no licence keys to keep track of. You buy a licence, sign in to the same account inside the app, and the app stores a licence on that computer.

Three consequences worth knowing before you get there:

• You need to be online for the activation itself, and only for that. Once the licence is stored, Fusor Studio validates it locally, so you never need a connection to perform.
• A licence covers a limited number of computers, and you manage which ones from your account on the website. Freeing a slot is something you do there, not in the app.
• The licence is perpetual. The version you bought keeps working; the purchase includes a period of updates rather than a subscription to keep the app alive.

Fusor Studio Plus is a separate thing. Plus is the paid add-on that layers a library of tracks, crates, transitions, set lists and performance history on top. A Fusor Studio licence is not a Plus licence, and the two are activated independently. See Activating Plus.

What to do now

Nothing. Carry on with the tutorials. Everything in Your First Transition, Actions and Pad Mode and Author Your First Action works before you licence anything.

Author Your First Fusor is the one tutorial that describes a licensed capability. It's written as though you have one, because the authoring surface is already there in front of you.

Where to next

• Licensing — what the unlicensed state can and can't do, and why it's built that way.
• Your First Transition — the next tutorial in the arc.