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I suspect that ERM are somewhat vague on this point to discourage people downloading the plugin and using it without the hardware. There's no data connection to the plugin though, so it can't authenticate against it or anything. It's an excellent unit, well engineered, intuative and a rock solid clock. I'd still highly recommend getting the multiclock hardware. possibly some scaling / offsetting required. And if you're clocking a modular and you don't need MIDI, then you can hook the sync wave from the plugin directly to your clock inputs and it will more or less work. I believe some of the volca/beatstep type gear can do this. Conversely, if you have anything that can recognise a pulse wave as a clock and derive a midi clock from it, you might be good to go with just the plugin (which is free). You could use it to break out 4 midi clock signals from a modular clock. So the multiclock will be happily sync to a pulse wave from any source. It's important to understand (and also not very clear from the ERM literature) that this is simply a bipolar pulsewave at one of the soundcard audio outputs. The DAW runs an ERM plugin which generates the sync signal for the multiclock. When I'm recording the DAW is either the master clock or I'm using it unsyncronised as a tape machine.

I've never had much luck slaving DAWs to external clocks. The big advantage for me is that I can use the multiclock as a standalone master until it's time to record, then it can be easily synced to cubase.

After a bit of experimentation I got a RYO OR/NOR module to get the transport control signal in the right format for the komplex, now it works great. It also controls the koma komplex via ERM's modular whip interface plug. I use a multiclock to sync my midi gear and a few bits of dinsync.