When i start NA without an internet connection to the NI servers, NA cannot do anything. Please, Native Instruments, enable NA to work offline with the local library. Please give that highest priority as long as your company is somehow operational.
What are you expecting NA to be able to do offline?
It's only reason for existing is to download products/updates and authorise products based on what you've bought. Downloading is kinda tricky without an internet connection. It's possible offline authorisation could be done, but you'd still need an internet connection on another machine to download an authorisation file so you'd still need an internet connection.
It may not be clear to you, but all other functional programs for using libraries downloaded by NA such as Kontakt or Komplete Kontrol, don't require you to be online in order to use them and load products that were downloaded by NA. But NA exists specifically in order to download, install and update those libraries, so they can be used by the other tools.
it is about managing already downloaded and activated software when the NI servers are down after bankruptcy. e.g., when i need to repair my local libs after a disk crash.
Gentle suggestion to dispense with the wild speculation and simply use your products normally.
Native Access cannot manage anything without an internet connection by design.
And please do not conflate "preliminary insolvency" with bankruptcy either. The current financial news has nothing to do with going bankrupt.
If/when there is an actual reason to worry about anything associated with the financial situation - pretty sure we will all get plenty of notice.
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i'd rather prepare myself. NA does nothing offline. i have all my libs on an external drive. i am cloning that with carbon copy cloner to another drive with the same volume name. currently, kontakt 8 seems to work with the clone when NA is off and the mac is not connected to the internet. for this to remain, I will not update anything from NI until they make an official statement to us, i.e., the paying customers. so far, they didn't communicate anything to us.🤔
You sound like you are all good. And yes - all your stuff with work just fine - you never actually need to launch NA - ever again - if you do not need to.
And again - the current financial situation will take months to sort out. I am going to carry on normally, update normally and do everything as I always have. There is no worry on my part right now.
If/when there is a reason to worry - I will deal with it at that time.
They have no reason or obligation to communicate anything as this is a preliminary action to determine what they will do with bankruptcy being one of many possibilities. This is nothing more than a planning phase, not even a negotiation phase. The most probable effect this might have is some interruptions in the development and release schedules..maybe.
As Vocalpoint states, I'm doing the exact same as I've always done as far as my development and usage of NI products. If something does happen that impacts me, then I might take some preventative actions depending on what the ultimate decision is…and there's a good chance it's more internal restructuring than impacting the products which affects their income stream.
"They have no reason or obligation to communicate anything as this is a preliminary action to determine what they will do with bankruptcy being one of many possibilities"
And by the current court process - NI cannot say anything - about anything.
Only this guy can:
His specialty - is making the best of these situations.
The fear people fear about all this is real and tangible and logical and normal, and watching people clutch their pearls and act like that fear is irrational or problematic, here of all places, after the last few years, is offensive and nonsensical. But its also par for this course. Being in systems and network engineering for 30 years, I understand its rational for everyone, tech literate or not, to feel some fear here. There are a LOT of things that can happen after a company goes through this, and its always a confidence game to try to calm customers down so the NEXT entity that comes along can start recovering available revenues. Unless we are pretending that vulture capitalism isnt real or we are very, very young people without the experience, we know what can happen… and so trying to sweep all of that under the rug is an error.
I'm not sure that technical literacy has much to do with what's happening here other than an awareness of the technical business segment NI operates in. Vulture capitalism applies mostly to glutted markets with lots of potential players willing to pay for assets to quickly expand their presence within that market space. That's why it was such a prevelant strategy in the expansion of the internet or the explosion of desktop PC's. But I find it hard to apply that idea to the rather specialized segment of business that NI operates within.
In some ways I suspect NI may have created much of their own problems by trying to grow the scope of their business through partnerships and licensing agreements with many of the smaller vendors in this segment such as 8DIO, iZotope, and a long list of others becoming more of a Walmart of offerings than a specialized vendor of their own products. In a way the value of the company is much greater as a whole than it would be if limited solely to the value of their own in-house products.
"The fear people fear about all this is real and tangible and logical and normal, and watching people clutch their pearls and act like that fear is irrational or problematic, here of all places, after the last few years, is offensive and nonsensical. But its also par for this course.
Fear is fine. Panic is nonsensical
If one wants to read this news and convince themselves the world is ending - can't really stop them. But what for? What is there to gain by that?
There is nothing that any of us - here - can do about this - so freaking out about it day after day - has no logic whatsoever.
At the end of the day - this is a bunch of hardware and software - that was designed to be used. While this is playing out - the best play is to just - play.
My (longer-term) take? This ship is too big to fail and they have a solid professional at the helm to figure out the best way forward. We will probably end up with a much better ship in 80 days or so.
Worry when there is a reason to worry.
