Free - NI Supercharger

[BBFG#]

The code's displayed on the website so I think it's the same for everybody ... ?

Displayed where on the website? I'm not finding it anywhere.

[Heathcliff]

The code's displayed on the website so I think it's the same for everybody ... ?

Displayed where on the website? I'm not finding it anywhere.

http://www.native-instruments.com/en/sp ... -holidays/

And I'm not logged in.

[DAVIDLEERAD]

Seems to work fine on 10.6.8 once I tricked the installer. Bit annoying that they've started pushing Lion as the minimum OS when everything runs just fine on Snow, but whatevs.

Hello there... I also still have 10.6.8 ---How did you "trick the installer"?
Thanks!

[BBFG#]

The code's displayed on the website so I think it's the same for everybody ... ?

Displayed where on the website? I'm not finding it anywhere.

http://www.native-instruments.com/en/sp ... -holidays/

And I'm not logged in.

Found it, thanks!

[Burillo]

how am i supposed to activate supercharger?

[Numanoid]

how am i supposed to activate supercharger?

The regular route for NI plugs is:

You need to request your copy

You get a download link and serial by mail

You download your copy

You install your copy

You open your DAW and launch it, this will lead to a question if you want to authorize it, you select yes.

This leads to the NI service center opening, here you will see the plug listed.

You add your serial, and authorize it

That should be it

[ATS]

how am i supposed to activate supercharger?

The regular route for NI plugs is:

You need to request your copy

You get a download link and serial by mail

You download your copy

You install your copy

You open your DAW and launch it, this will lead to a question if you want to authorize it, you select yes.

This leads to the NI service center opening, here you will see the plug listed.

You add your serial, and authorize it

That should be it

you can actually just go right to Service Center, you don't have to open your DAW and all that.

[Burillo]

how am i supposed to activate supercharger?

The regular route for NI plugs is:

You need to request your copy

You get a download link and serial by mail

You download your copy

You install your copy

You open your DAW and launch it, this will lead to a question if you want to authorize it, you select yes.

This leads to the NI service center opening, here you will see the plug listed.

You add your serial, and authorize it

That should be it

does "request my copy" equate to "download demo"? because that's what i did, and i didn't get any serials. and now NI site is obviously under DDoS attack and i can't even log in.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Seems to work fine on 10.6.8 once I tricked the installer.

how did you do that ??

Edit /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist changing the ProductVersion from 10.6.8 to 10.7. Then change it back after installing. You could probably leave it set to 10.7 but I like to have it right.

You'll need to reinstall the Service Center as some updates/installers will overwrite it with one requiring Lion. I keep a copy of Service Center 2.3.2 around for this. Alternatively you could right click on the installer, browse its contents and install each package manually ignoring the Service Center ones.

thanks for replying

yeah, i managed to get the component with pacifist, but i couldn't get the service centre from the packet to install because of 10.6.8

so, if i make a copy of my service centre 2.3.3 to another location, will i be able to reinstall it over the newer service centre once i have authorised the compressor ??

also, your filepath seems to be missing one level..can't see core services...will try and search for it

thanks again

[djanthonyw]

Seems to work fine on 10.6.8 once I tricked the installer. Bit annoying that they've started pushing Lion as the minimum OS when everything runs just fine on Snow, but whatevs.

Hello there... I also still have 10.6.8 ---How did you "trick the installer"?
Thanks!

You should be able to right click on the installer, show package contents and then edit info.plist.

You can also use Pacifist to extract all files and place manually, bypassing the standard install.

[poshook]

this is amazing compressor almost for everything especially 2bus, vocals, drum bus.

[sprnva]

so, if i make a copy of my service centre 2.3.3 to another location, will i be able to reinstall it over the newer service centre once i have authorised the compressor ??

You should be able to just back up the Service Center app and overwrite the new one with it afterwards (or restore the previous version from a TM backup).

You don't need to use the newer Service Center to activate the software. The old one works fine.

I used this trick when the last bunch of updates came out for Komplete as they were the first to require 10.7. For standalone programs you also have to edit the minimum system version in the info.plist. It's a lot of messing around but it's sadly becoming more common these days and I'm not sold on Mavericks yet (my Audio Kontrol 1 isn't working properly in it anyway).

The path is right but perhaps CoreServices is hidden there? I changed it using two commands in the terminal:

sudo perl -pi -e 's|10.6.8|10.7|' /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist

sudo chmod 644 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist

The second one fixes the file permissions.

To change it back just run the commands again but swapping the order of 10.6.8 and 10.7 in the first line.

New: I've changed the first command because I noticed that using defaults converted the plist to a binary format that caused some problems.

[Numanoid]

does "request my copy" equate to "download demo"? because that's what i did, and i didn't get any serials. and now NI site is obviously under DDoS attack and i can't even log in.

Did you get an E-mail after requesting the demo? This is how mine reads:

Thank you very much for your interest in SUPERCHARGER.

Click here to download:

SUPERCHARGER Win: .....

The link is active for 48 hours.

Your personal serial number for SUPERCHARGER activation is:

XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

SUPERCHARGER requires activation using the included Service Center.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

Seems to work fine on 10.6.8 once I tricked the installer. Bit annoying that they've started pushing Lion as the minimum OS when everything runs just fine on Snow, but whatevs.

Hello there... I also still have 10.6.8 ---How did you "trick the installer"?
Thanks!

You should be able to right click on the installer, show package contents and then edit info.plist.

You can also use Pacifist to extract all files and place manually, bypassing the standard install.

there are no package contents from right-clicking the installer

using pacifist works to extract the component, but when you got to activate it service centre doesn't show the plugin...extracting and using the service centre update in the installer won't work, as it flags it for not being 10.7

cheers

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

so, if i make a copy of my service centre 2.3.3 to another location, will i be able to reinstall it over the newer service centre once i have authorised the compressor ??

You should be able to just back up the Service Center app and overwrite the new one with it afterwards (or restore the previous version from a TM backup).

You don't need to use the newer Service Center to activate the software. The old one works fine.

I used this trick when the last bunch of updates came out for Komplete as they were the first to require 10.7. For standalone programs you also have to edit the minimum system version in the info.plist. It's a lot of messing around but it's sadly becoming more common these days and I'm not sold on Mavericks yet (my Audio Kontrol 1 isn't working properly in it anyway).

The path is right but perhaps CoreServices is hidden there? I changed it using two commands in the terminal:

sudo defaults write /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion ProductVersion 10.7

sudo chmod 644 /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist

The second one fixes the file permissions.

To change it back just run the commands again but with 10.6.8 instead of 10.7.

the service centre i have installed doesn't pick up the plug in to activate

will try these extra instructions

cheers