3/21/2023 0 Comments Reaktor 5 crackI'm starting to get very slightly jittery about VSL's VI player. Mikey - except there's absolutely no guarantees that any other company will change their rules. So I'm saddened, not terribly surprised, and will view NI with even more suspicion going forward.Īs an owner of the Spitfire Symphonic Orchestra, I'm looking forward to the new upgrade - which I'm guessing will be for their new player, and the transition of the OT back catalogue to their new player. It's at times like this that the VSL route of a dongle becomes rather more attractive than would initially appear. Imagine NI in ten years time telling you can no longer be activated. I always thought that the costs of developing and maintaining their own players would be a be far more expensive route, at least in the short term. Many at 'the other place' suggested that this was being done purely for financial reasons - but I always thought it was so developers held their own destinies in their own hands. At the moment their businesses are effectively a hostage to the decisions that NI make, both now and in the future. Despite the initial problems, which I know have been considerable, in the long run this seems a sensible route for them. Dare to complain or protest, and you’re an ungrateful grumpy whiner.Īll of a sudden, the decision of certain developers to bring their own sample player software to market seems to be more understandable. That’s what I find most depressing of all: this climate we’ve gradually entered into over the past decade that allows all this borderline-illegal, definitely immoral and unethical and totally unprofessional and profoundly disrespectful conduct to flourish - always at the customer’s expense - and we’re supposed to be silently OK with it. Provide support that is as insulting as it is unhelpful, no problem … Take away the licenses we purchased, no problem. In a manner of speaking of course.īut we’re expected to be fine with all this, aren’t we? Sell us faulty stuff, no problem. I don’t know about you, but when given this kind of treatment, I start entertaining thoughts of wanting to bazooka NI Towers. That’s as far as my support ticket has gone. Explaining all this to NI Support, the ’support’ they gave me was … that I should … install Native Access. And when attempting to authorize it with Native Access, I get the error message that “the library is unknown”, even though it is listed under ‘My Products’ in my NI-account. The only software I could authorize that library with, was Service Center, but that application no longer runs in High Sierra. In related news: thus far, I’ve had no help from Native Instruments in getting my Spitfire Bespoke Chamber Strings re-authorized on my machine. I have no doubt that they investigated all legal aspects of this decision thoroughly before announcing it, so probably there’s very little anyone can do, but my first reaction was also: “Can they actually do this?” (But I guess they can, Adobe has done it too.) As if it’s not bad enough that we’re totally at the mercy of developers who get away, time and again, with selling flawed and unfinished product (and who rather release new stuff than address the errors and bugs in existing stuff), there’s also this, in my view loathsome, trend among several of them to sell their content in hermetically shielded systems which no longer allow us to use or customize the content in the way we’d like - editing at a sample level, bypassing scripts and sample remapping is all but impossible with the sample playback software from VSL, Spitfire, EastWest and OrchestralTools - and now we also have to lie down and roll over quietly while Native Instruments, unilaterally, puts an end to a license agreement of several dozens of products (many of them not even theirs) an agreement between seller and buyer that was, as far as I know, never understood to be finite. We are royally fucked, aren’t we? Sample-library-reliant musicians, I mean. Here is the list of discontinued products: If you are using an older operating system, you can find legacy versions of Native Access in this article. Please check out our product pages, or ask the manufacturer of the original third-party library for a newer version or alternative libraries.Īfter May 31, 2020, the use of Native Access is required to activate and manage your NI products. Most of the products have a newer version with the same or enhanced functionality, either released by NI or one of our partners. This means that already installed and activated products can still be used without limitation, but it is no longer possible to reinstall or reactivate any of these products on a new computer. As of May 31, 2020, a range of legacy products from Native Instruments and third-party manufacturers, as well as the activation tool Service Center, will be discontinued.
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