No more NI offline registration!

[nathankingcole]

This may not be news to any of you, but I wanted to share to help others avoid a frustrating situation. Native Instruments has discontinued offline activation of products as of September 2017. I just purchased Sample Modeling's Trumpet (they arranged for me to buy version 2.5 as 3 will not run on Kontakt 5.3.1). Install and registration went fine. I used service center offline on the Receptor to create an activation file as I have done with many Kontakt libraries, opened it on my laptop and clicked to the NI website, activated the registration, but when I tried to download the activation file to open on the receptor I was sent to an error page-please contact support. I put in a ticket , but no word back. Sample Modeling support was kind enough o put in a ticket with NI as well (they do not have any control over registration/activation). I have not read anything on any NI forums that bode well for this situation...other shave run into the brick wall of offline activation not working, but no workarounds that I have seen.

As per other posts in this forum, online activation is a no-go on the Receptor due to issues with the newest version of Service Center and the automatic update feature that is default in the Service Center program. I will update if I get any more info or response from NI.

[Fishoow]

Shoot. Yeah, I noticed that when I thought about trying to load the free Kinetic Treats they put out. Everything through Native Access on line.
I'm a little paralyzed regarding NI as I was never able to acquire funds for it. I'm hoping that when I do get the funds I will be able to enter a key and S/N and get it going. I was warned by Brian Lanser to get the K9 Ultimate because I may not be able to update it if I get the standard. It's all so precarious to me. I may end up with a standard version soon. Then I will be able to play around and I'll check back in here when I do.

I was curious if the Native Access would work on Receptor though.

[nathankingcole]

I looked at the Native Access, but I am afraid to try it now that I have things stable! I use Kontakt 5.3.1 and Absynth from the Komplete 9 update bundle that was included on the receptor when I purchased it. I am not sure what the lack of offline activation will do in your case. I will post if I hear anything back from Native Instruments on options for activation.

[Fishoow]

There is no more ability to connect Receptor to Native Instruments products. What you have now is what you will have forever - on Receptor.

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