- #Native instruments service center vs native access software#
- #Native instruments service center vs native access Offline#
#Native instruments service center vs native access Offline#
I have always boycotted VIs and effect plugins that require bongles or dongles or cloud servers or whatever, but made the terrible mistake of trusting Native Instruments and their offline C/R for sample library activation.
#Native instruments service center vs native access software#
Indeed if they wish to create an artificial unspoken shelf life for their product then it should also come with a timer, at which point the software no longer has to be registered online and reverts to a simple license code, or even becomes completely free for any users. Software should be permanent - or at least work for as long as it is technically possible to work within an operating system.
It would be interesting to know just how many people are still using any of these products in these older versions though.Īs you can see from my last paragraph (that you quoted) we are actually in agreement on this. NI should be feel obliged to support registering those old products through the Access app on principal. The latter is nothing less than theft, and is utterly deplorable and inexcusable.ĮDIT: BTW, the time between NI's direct promise to me and this announcement was less than two years. But it's quite another to deny activation for products one has paid for that would otherwise work just fine. It's one thing for a company to abandon support for older products to the point where they stop working (new OS's etc.). And of course it would be not only possible, but easy to simply liberate the libraries to bypass remote activation. There are clearly LOTS of people upset about this, including some Hollywood film scorers who say they're still using many of these libraries every day. How is Lucifer anyway? Tell him I said hi LOL. Yes you are playing the devil's advocate, to be sure. It would be interesting to know just how many people are still using any of these products in these older versions though.
NI should be feel obliged to support registering those old products through the Access app on principal. Or continue to work through back up by cloning drives. However most of these products are either painfully dated, or you can get modest cost upgrades to improve the actual products anyway (waiting for half price sales - and even those updates are starting to look old and crusty), or the oldests products could be installed without any online activation (see Glennbo post).
Personally I think their should be no time limit at all, where possible. Playing devil's advocate they didn't say they would do that permanently did they? - they did honour that for several years. For all current Native Instruments products, Service Center is no longer used and require activation with Native Access.įor products that support the use of Service Center and offline activation (legacy products and versions), yes it will be possible. They responded in the affirmative, and this is exactly what they said:įor products that use Service Center for activation on supported OS versions, this will be supported. When NI ended support for offline activation with Native Access, I wrote them specifically to ask whether this would apply retroactively to pre-Kontakt 5.6.8 libraries, and whether we could rely on continued support for those products that were purchased under the terms in place at the time of purchase.
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