Native Access 3.8.0 now live!

Hello, I've recently updated to a new M2 Mac and I have been having difficulty getting my old Guitar Rig 5 to work with the new Native Access apps. GR5 just gives me the message that Service Center can't be found so it can't be activated, and it stays in Demo mode. A workaround was posted on NI.com with a link to a legacy version of Native Access, but that download isn't working anymore. Ideally I would like to have up-to-date Native Access with GR5 working - is this possible? If not, any other workaround?

"Ideally I would like to have up-to-date Native Access with GR5 working - is this possible? If not, any other workaround?"

The only "workaround" (that I know of) for this is upgrading.

Not only that - even if you could somehow get that version authorized - chances are very high that you will have immediate issues trying to run GR5 in Sonoma.

NI will not be revisiting that old chestnut for any sort of update to make it "Sonoma compatible" after 5 years.

VP

I recently bought the upgrade to Komplete 14 Standard, and installed it fresh on a different computer, Windows 10 Pro. There were two problems:

1. At first the download went reasonably quickly, but then it slowed WAY down, just crawled, very little progress within the same one component, over hours, on a fast internet connection. At one point I left the room, came back several hours later, and everything that worked (see next) had completed. So that part is sorted for me now, but it really was a problem, so I thought you should know.
2. Four items said "Installation failed, invalid path" at the time, today instead they say "Installation failed, review your location preferences", which Support also asked me to do when I file a ticket about this, and which I've done. For one thing, they're what I want. For another, they're the same as when all the other items that succeeded were installed. Support asked for a screen shot of my NA location prefs, which I sent, but they haven't responded since.

The items that fail are:

• Scarbee Mark I
• The Gentleman
• The Grandeur
• Vintage Organs

So:

• Do those items install correctly for most people? I assume they do, or there would be noise about it here, but if so, what's different about my situation? Is there noise I haven't seen?
• Is there a log somewhere with more details about the error -- error reading or writing, from and to where, actual error message, etc.
• Is there some file I can update to get this to work, if I can figure out from the logs what's actually wrong?

I wonder if the problem is that it got created out of sequence or something, then later it can't be created because it already exists.

No content got put in those directories though.

NI support got back to me, suggesting that I confirm that the drive I'm installing onto is formatted with NTFS, which IMO is nonsense. It's xFAT, also very standard for large drives, plus everything in Komplete except for these 4 components installed fine, as did literally everything from literally every other vendor that I've tried.

Do I gather that nobody else is seeing this issue?

Or is it just that there's nobody here, including NI support, which responds to my emails, but not here, and kind of slowly.

I don't mean to be a pushy jerk, but this is seeming kind of stuck, especially for a big name commercial product.

@Wotcha Come on ! There so much problems with NI plugins, why would you add some more using ex-fat external drive ?

But if you want more issues, I can recommend formatting the drive with the case sensitive option enabled ? It's another kind of fun...