NI have announced they will no longer activate discontinued products

[ThomasHelzle]

Thanks Matt. That sounds reasonable.

[LoveEnigma18]

Thanks, Matt. I hope Battery 3 will also be included in the list.

[EvilDragon]

Battery 3 was never a problem since it's using the newer RAS scheme. Only products using the oldest RAS0, RAS1 and RAS1.5 schemes are affected, so this would mean Battery 1 and Battery 2.

[LoveEnigma18]

Battery 3 was never a problem since it's using the newer RAS scheme. Only products using the oldest RAS0, RAS1 and RAS1.5 schemes are affected, so this would mean Battery 1 and Battery 2.

Perfect! Thanks, ED.

[Compyfox]

...We will share a full list as soon as we can with all the details and how to proceed if you have one of the instrument listed.

We'll reach out to users soon to do some testing on different environment if some of you are up for it.

I hope third party products are listed, that need "C/R activation" and are implemented with Library images into Kontakt.

Looking specifically at:
- Sennheiser DrumMic-a
- Best Service Siedlaczek Orchestra (v2)
- certain Chris Hein samples

From the house of NI, even FM8 and B3. But considering that the focus was on "Massive"... well... I've moved on and looked for alternatives.

[EvilDragon]

Drummica is not in the list of affected products, neither is Siedlaczek. FM8, Massive Battery 3 are also unaffected.

As for Chris Hein, only the very first, oldest version of CH Horns is affected. It had numerous updates since - all those updates are unaffected, or any other CH products.

You're gonna be fine.

[Compyfox]

Well, neither DrumMic-A or Siedlaczek show up in Native Access for me... so... yeah.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[EvilDragon]

Drummica shows for me no problem , I don't own Siedlaczek so can't verify that. Do contact NI support about it.

[Compyfox]

HUH! What do you know, NI finally got around and implemented the old NI License Manager stuff into Native Access... slow-clap - only took how many years?

Now what would be great, if we could actually keep the downloaded ISO's on the HDD so we don't have to re-download them again at a later state. But I've brought this up so often, I don't think we'll ever see this... er... feature

[BBFG#]

Now what would be great, if we could actually keep the downloaded ISO's on the HDD so we don't have to re-download them again at a later state. But I've brought this up so often, I don't think we'll ever see this... er... feature

You can. You just have to jump through a couple of hoops to do it.

[Rik]

If you still have them installed, you can use them. And, if you don't, you can activate them until the 31st of May. Then you won't be able to activate them anymore on a new installation.

ilok and software that uses paceap deserves some love now... I remember the days when it had a bad name here but any of my 15+ years old software registered on it can still work.

[BBFG#]

No, PACE still has a bad name for many of us.
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Hoops to download once/install many in NI:
*Open Access
*Click the download and then stop/pause the download.
*Open the metalink file in your C: drive temp and copy the url portion in that file.
* Paste & go in your browser.
Save to your desired back up location.

[vurt]

If you still have them installed, you can use them. And, if you don't, you can activate them until the 31st of May. Then you won't be able to activate them anymore on a new installation.

ilok and software that uses paceap deserves some love now... I remember the days when it had a bad name here but any of my 15+ years old software registered on it can still work.

a lot has changed since page 2

[goldenanalog]

We are going to update our announcement with more details on our progress today or latest tomorrow.

Hey, Matt! Any update(s)?

Thx - GA

[Jace-BeOS]

Jace-BeOs, I think you used every single fallacy in this chart. *applause*

Nice chart.

It would be helpful if you cited the instances and maybe I could address them, but you went for an easy troll post instead.