Thank you for your answer
As I can’t find informations on this subject on Discord I ask here.
The day before yesterday the Cantai license for Dorico was $299, yesterday it was $150, today it is again $299
Today the license for Sibelius is $150
According to the FAQ:
“A single lifetime license covers Dorico, Sibelius, and MuseScore Studio. You do not need to purchase separately for each notation software.”
Can I assume that if I buy today a license for Sibelius, it will work for Dorico?
AFAIK nowbody has tried and reported this does work, but it might …
Some are thinking you have to wait until Cantai for Sibelius to be released in order to download.
Likely outdated info in the FAQ, but then again, I would screenshot this, buy a 150$ Sibelius license and get in touch with Richard…
Worst that can happen is a refund.
B.
@ TonH and @ YourMusic.Pro
Thank you for your answers.
This is from the man himself back in February.
Does cantai work with Dorico offline for you?
Yes, it does. Latest Dorico and Cantai, Windows 10. To be really sure, I specifically even tested this by disconnecting the computer from the Internet and network.
Thank you very much for the reply. Interesting I’m glad for you
Anyone with macOS who can work as well offline?
@ReRei I feel like I’m missing something! 
Wasn’t the point of Cantai for Dorico as a VST to work locally on one’s computer? Are you having difficulties getting it to work? I haven’t “unplugged” but it works fine on my Mac Mini and Win 11 PC.
--Jim
I have the same Problem with my Windows 10 Computer.
This concerns the Cantai-Lifetime license,
the new Cantai version using Dorico 6.2.20.
All works fine as long as I’m online.
but the Cantai-Activation stops
when I go offline (after a few minutes)
Cantai wants me to enter the activation code again.
Therefor I have to go online.
As soon as I go offline again, its the same problem.
This happens also with my second computer.
It seems that Cantai controls every once and a while
the activation status.
That makes it impossible to go to the beach with my laptop
when there’s no chance to go online.
As Richard deCosta writes in his mail.
“No dongles, no phone-home-DRM, no license servers to fail on you at 2am”
I am wondering what it is about, that I have to be online in order to use Cantai.
I hope this is only a temporarily-status and will be solved in the near future.
Can anyone explain why when I add Cantai to the VST/Midi rack in Play mode, a dialog pops up requesting me to “Allow connection for remote control from ‘Cantai’”? I want to understand what kind of remote control I am allowing.
So I am not alone with this problem. Yes according to the promises it should work offline. I hope this problem will get fixed soon.
Tom, I read in another thread (can’t look it up right now) that @dspreadbury said Cantai needs this to work. (Forgive me, Daniel, if this is incorrect — it’s third hand from a faulty memory!)
-– Jim
The primary purpose seems to be so that Cantai can tell Dorico to display information on the status bar when it’s rendering.
New consideration: it would be really nice if Cantai used the complete range of dynamics that are available in Dorico. At some point, balancing choral music with accompaniment is likely to be an issue. Other VSTs seem do this and my Hauptwerk VST does this via CC11 quite nicely. So maybe allowing CC11 to control the voices’ dynamics would be the route? I don’t know as I am certainly no guru with that sort of stuff.
And maybe to check for valid licensing. And under certain circumstances to effect rendering of voice(s).
The podcast which Richard recorded with David and Philip at/for Scoring Notes has interesting insights as well - particularly (I felt) on just how much further Cantai is already sure to go. A long ‘to do’ list, for sure. But still extremely ambitious and obviously committed to making it better and better as soon as possible.
My impression was that the remote control permission is to allow the Cantai app on the computer to communicate with Dorico.
Derrek,
I bet you’re (also) right!
I believe there are circumstances where some data is (still?) placed(/referenced) ‘in the cloud’.
I also heard - I think (standing by to be corrected) that there has been a misapprehension about the ‘trip’ which Cantai makes to pass data to Dorico.
@ReRei , would you kindly share with us which conditions you are meeting where functionality drops, please?
Using Cantai in Dorico the voices sound very nice, but when I LUFS normalize the exported audio file, the voices become very harsh. Anything I can do to avoid this?