Installation of iZotope and Plugin Alliance plugins

Jamie Hunter
Jamie Hunter Member Posts: 55 Helper
in Native Access

Is there any plan to migrate iZotope and Plugin Alliance plugins that were purchased via other vendors to native Access in the future? I notice that the iZotope pluigns that now come with Komplete etc, can be downloaded via Native Access. I have Neoverb and Ozone 11 which were purchased from a 3rd party vendor but registered to my iZotope account and I am unable to download these via Native Access. Currently I have to use Native Access, iZotope Product Portal and the terrible Plugin Alliance Installation Manager. It would be nice if everything could be downloaded via one installation program.

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  • Jeremy_NI
    Jeremy_NI Administrator, Customer Care Posts: 14,574 admin
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    @Jamie Hunter Here's our official statement on the topic:

    We're working towards an easier, more integrated experience for managing all your iZotope, Native Instruments, and PABX products. We recently made some progress with this by integrating our Music Production Suite Pro subscription onto Native Access. We are working to move more of the product line over as well. The first step in this process is unifying iZotope user logins to Native ID. There will be additional steps we make as we move towards this goal and we will be providing updates as we go. We will have more to share on this in the coming months.

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  • Vocalpoint
    Vocalpoint Member Posts: 3,877 Expert
    edited April 30

    Until we get a massive notification of 100% full and complete integration - my general rules are:

    • If it comes from the NI shop - use Native Access
    • If it is from iZoTope - use the Product Portal
    • If it is from Plugin Alliance - use the PA Installer.

    Have never had any issues - regardless of what might appear in Native Access.

    And yes - pretty sure plans are afoot to unify this - but think in terms of glacial migration - rather than a perfect solution in 6 months.

    There are probably thousands of users out there who have iZotope or Plugin Alliance stuff and have no idea whatsoever what Native Access is - and vice versa.

    It will take years to sort this out properly - espeically given the users get really cranky if an activation goes south or a (justified) unification of software managers - results in users not being able to install or activate - because they do not have NA or similar.

    VP

  • Jamie Hunter
    Jamie Hunter Member Posts: 55 Helper

    I've never had any issues it's the fact that if I had purchased the plugins via NI I could use native access and not have 3 different installation managers on my PC.

  • Vocalpoint
    Vocalpoint Member Posts: 3,877 Expert
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/224230#Comment_224230

    In a perfect world - yes. We are a long way away from that right now.

    VP

  • Jamie Hunter
    Jamie Hunter Member Posts: 55 Helper

    Yes I agree, it would be easy for iZotope plugins, Plugin Alliance would be a different ball game as they have a lot more plugins and from multiple brands that aren't NKS compatible. You take the serial numbers from iZotope plugins and register them with native access the same way you do for other NKS products.

  • MLARS
    MLARS Member Posts: 309 Pro

    Plugin Alliance software manager is kinda terrible. Native Access still has not fully moved over all iZotope licenses so you still need the old software manager too. That's a lot of software managers for one company.

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 5,733 mod
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/226751#Comment_226751

    Yeah it's hopeless, doesn't 'manage' anything - its just a glorified downloader, but it doesn't actually tell you when stuff needs updating or even the status of what you have installed

  • MLARS
    MLARS Member Posts: 309 Pro

    @Matthew_NI see comments above. Any status on migrating Plugin Alliance licenses to Native Access to support updates?

  • Matthew_NI
    Matthew_NI Product Team Posts: 1,828 mod

    I don't know. @Jeremy_NI may know.

  • Think77
    Think77 Member Posts: 3 Member
    edited May 19

    According to a Plugin Alliance Facebook post from early March, Plugin Alliance is rolling out an updated install manager (very) soon. Seems it's going to be able to uninstall plugins as well as alert the user about available updates to specific plugins. This would suggest that an "umbrella" install manager for both NI, Izotope and PA is not around the corner any time soon?

  • Vocalpoint
    Vocalpoint Member Posts: 3,877 Expert

    "This would suggest that an "umbrella" install manager for both NI, Izotope and PA is not around the corner any time soon?"

    Unless NI is suddenly going to cease using Native Access - doubtful that is going to happen.

    Recent activities suggest the work right now is moving iZotope into NA first and foremost (and icing Product Portal) well before worrying about Plugin Alliance.

    VP

  • Jeremy_NI
    Jeremy_NI Administrator, Customer Care Posts: 14,574 admin
    Answer ✓

    @Jamie Hunter Here's our official statement on the topic:

    We're working towards an easier, more integrated experience for managing all your iZotope, Native Instruments, and PABX products. We recently made some progress with this by integrating our Music Production Suite Pro subscription onto Native Access. We are working to move more of the product line over as well. The first step in this process is unifying iZotope user logins to Native ID. There will be additional steps we make as we move towards this goal and we will be providing updates as we go. We will have more to share on this in the coming months.

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