How to get older Guitar Rig Pro (5) properly onto a new 2025 laptop ?

Nick M · June 21

I bought Guitar Rig Pro 5 years ago and am now trying to move it onto a new laptop, but I cannot enter the serial number to (re) activate it. so it seems to be stuck in Demo mode. - When I try to activate it on the new 2025 computer it says. "Service Center can not be found. Please run the product installer again to install Service Center. "The problem is, I no longer have the 'product installer'. so I don't know how to get 'Service Center'. Has anyone got any advice they could give on how to get Guitar Rig 5 pro working properly on a 2025 MacBook Sequoia?

Thankyou

mykejb · June 21

There's an article here that covers activation of older products on Sequoia - 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

maniacintosh81 · June 21

Guitar Rig 5 is dicontinued. Last update was long before Apple Silicon, therefore GR5 requires Rosetta 2 to run. But it doesn't work with the current NTKDaemon that comes with Native Access 3.3.0, which now runs native on Apple Silicon.

There is a workaround: Guitar Rig opens as Demo Versions on Apple Silicon / M-Systems

Keep in mind that this can cause other issues with newer NI products at some point.

How to get older Guitar Rig Pro (5) properly onto a new 2025 laptop ?

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