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Use your audio or lighting dongle from a remote session
Donglify gives you access to the USB license dongle for your audio or lighting software from another computer over the Internet. The dongle stays in the studio, and your software reads it from a Remote Desktop session, a virtual machine, or a laptop at the venue. If native RDP device redirection doesn’t work, Donglify can solve the issue.
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A dongle can create difficulties when you’re on the move
Lighting and sound work means that venues constantly change. A physical dongle needs to be carried around, impedes remote work, and slows teams down. These are the cases that come up.
Software will not start over RDP
Attempts to work over Remote Desktop have failed, since the dongle doesn’t appear in the remote session.
One dongle, two locations
The license dongle is needed at the venue and back at the office at the same time.
Distant workers
Project engineers are spread across different locations, and getting them all to the venue is either impossible, or too expensive.
Touring and on-site work
Carrying the dongle in someone's pocket to every show risks losing it or leaving it behind.
Donglify forwards the dongle into your session
The dongle stays in the studio, and your software reads it over the Internet from wherever you are working. This makes it possible to use in a Remote Desktop session, a virtual machine, or on a second computer.
Software runs over Remote Desktop
Forward the dongle into a Remote Desktop session, where USB redirection usually fails. Your plugins or lighting software read the dongle and run.
One dongle, two places
Share a single license dongle between the studio, the venue, and the office without moving it from the rack.
Work across cities
A team in different cities can work on one licensed setup, with access you can revoke individually.
Share a USB dongle in four steps
Set it up once, and the dongle is reachable over the Internet from any machine, including a virtual machine or a Remote Desktop session.
1
Sign up
Create a Donglify account and start the free demo.
2
Install
Install Donglify on the machine that holds the dongle and on each machine that needs it.
3
Share
Plug in the USB dongle, click the plus button, and select the dongle to share.
4
Connect
On the other machine, click Connect. The dongle works as if it was plugged in locally.
Works with your USB dongle
Donglify works with the USB dongles that license audio and lighting software, the keys that audio plugins, DAWs, and stage-lighting software check for. It forwards them over the Internet, including into Remote Desktop sessions and virtual machines, which usually don’t support USB dongles. If the dongle works when plugged in, Donglify makes it work remotely.
How studios and lighting designers use it
Remote mixing
An audio engineer runs licensed plugins in a remote session while the dongle stays in the studio.
Venue and office
A lighting designer reaches one license dongle from both the venue and the office.
Post-production
A team in different cities works on one licensed setup.
Why studios and lighting designers use Donglify
Secure communication
2048-bit SSL encryption protects every shared dongle.
Acts like a local dongle
The software reads the remote dongle as if it were plugged into the same machine.
Reach it from several machines
One dongle can be available to more than one machine.
Access you control
Grant access per user and revoke it at any time.
What customers say
Donglify is the true savior for the hardware key we use to access our printer station. We used to physically reattach the poor thing from my colleague’s PC into mine and beck every time one of us had a printing job. And that’s far more than a dozen times every single business day. Now, we rely on dongle sharing, and whoever needs the printer just connects to the key over the network. The printer’s software sees no difference at all.
Rafael West
I used Donglify to help a client with a remote setup for their licensed software. Instead of physically shipping USB dongles, I connected them remotely using this tool. It saved a lot of time and effort. The software is user-friendly and provides a stable connection. Donglify is an excellent tool for anyone managing USB dongles in remote environments.
Ahmed Khan, Technical Support Engineer
Donglify was a perfect solution for sharing a USB dongle among my development team. We needed access to a single hardware license key for testing across different systems, and Donglify allowed us to use it remotely without any hassle. Its encryption feature gave us peace of mind, knowing the connection was secure. Highly recommended for distributed teams!
What customers say