How to activate discontinued products? (Battery 2, FM7 and so on)

catch-22

Hi.

I want to revive/work on old DAW projects and need to install and activate older NI plugins like Battery 2. How can i do that?

Thanks in advance

Kubrak

https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006053397-Service-Center-and-Legacy-Products-End-of-Life

Is Native Instruments currently looking into any other solutions for affected customers?

Yes, in specific cases we might be able to provide at-your-own risk support for our end-of-life products. We can’t promise anything at this point and technical feasibility needs to be evaluated. We will share more information about this as soon as possible.

I would ask Support to allow you to do authorisation using Service Center offline.

catch-22

Thanks @Kubrak

What a mess. They should have avoided it by updating older plugins to work with NA.

I think i'll try to contact support. But this is so unprofessional. They should just provide copy protection free versions via NI account or whatever solution. I'm very dissatisfied.

Kubrak

It is not technically possible to install/authorise old plugins using NA2. NA2 supports Win10 and later, I guess. And few latest Apple OS versions. Plugins would not run/install on those versions of OSes, need older ones.

Maybe NA, that has worked on Win7 and probably a bit older versions of Apple OS than NA2. But still it might be too new OS for given plugins....

I guess, NI should have maintained offline Service Center authorisation. Be at your position, I would have demanded at least that.

You are right, that NI could have provided copy protection free versions. But maybe licence contracts with authors do not allow that.....