How do I upgrade my Guitar Rig 5 Demo without the Service Center app?

Greetings All,
I have the Guitar Rig 5 Demo app. I prefer it over the UI of GR6 and above. However, I do NOT have the GR5 Pro installer OR the Service Center app and cannot activate GR5 with my GR7 license. When I try to activate GR5 Demo, It calls for the missing Service Center app which I do NOT have and cannot find online. The Native Access app does not "see" the GR5 Demo app and thus I cannot activate it. GR6 accepted the GR7 license but not the GR5 Demo app.
I have searched everywhere for a legacy GR5 installer but cannot find one. I cannot Activate the 5 Demo even with the legacy NA installers I found on the NI site.
Can anyone point me to a GR5 installer or maybe offer a suggestion on how to upgrade the GR5 Demo I have?

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mykejb

Have you tried installing/activating it using Native Access 1 rather than the latest version? This article might help - I Cannot Find GUITAR RIG 5 in Native Access – Native Instruments (native-instruments.com). It'll depend a lot on whether the older version of Native Access will run on your Mac, you can download it from here - Native Access Legacy Installers for Older Operating Systems – Native Instruments (native-instruments.com)

Monochrome

Note that a Guitar Rig 7 license won't automatically grant you licenses for older Guitar Rig versions. You would need to buy a license for a certain version second-hand if you don't own one.

As for the Demo/Service Center issue, check this article:

https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/10492337780253-GUITAR-RIG-5-KONTAKT-and-SUPER-8-R2-Open-as-Demo-Versions-on-Apple-Silicon-M-Systems

Deeken

Thank you for your input Gents. Appreciated.
1. I tried 2 out of the list of Legacy NA's. Did not work..I think I will go download the rest and test.
2. I even deleted the two NI folders in ~/Share/... and that didn't work either.
3.. GR7 actually DID license GR6 and I read somewhere it "should" work... but I am even ok paying for GR5 (reduced price I would assume) but I can't find a GR5 installer anywhere.
I'll hit it again today and re-read your comments and maybe something will come to mind.
Thanks Again and Best Regards and Best Wishes!

Jeremy_NI

@Deeken Service Center is discontinued. Do you have a M1 mac? Then read this article: GUITAR RIG 5, KONTAKT and SUPER 8 R2 Open as Demo Versions on Apple Silicon / M-Systems

And if anything here helped, please get in touch with my colleagues here: https://bit.ly/NI_support_NA

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