Does anyone know how to authorize Guitar Rig 5 running on Mac OS 15.0.1 Sequoia?

wyard

I have just bought a new Mac Studio M2 Max and I'm installing all my plug-ins accumulated over the years. I have successfully installed and activated Guitar Rig 6, and I have also installed Guitar Rig 5, but I'm unable to activate it.

It shows up as a demo and I cannot activate it, even though I have a code to do so.

The Help→Activate Guitar Rig… menu in the standalone Guitar Rig 5 app doesn't work. It also does not show up in the latest version of Native Access 3.14.0.

Does anyone know how I can authorize a legacy product like Guitar Rig 5?

thanks

Greg Wyard

alibidnb

Found a workaround.

1) Download Native Access 3.2.3 here.
2) Instead of dragging the app directly into the applications folder, create a folder inside of the applications directory - in my case I've named it NI Access 3.2.

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3) drop the app in that folder and run it, do not make any updates. This should allow Native Access 3.2.3 to run in parallel with your current setup without interfering with other installations.


NOTE - iIn my case, the preset saved with the project did not load automatically, but luckily I remembered which one it was and was able to re-load it manually.

hope that helps