Hello,
I found a really old Ableton Live project that I wanted to finish. Unfortunately it's so old, that I have to work on it with Live 8, which only supports 32-bit vsts.
I still had an old 32-bit Massive vst laying around in that Live 8 installation folder and I am also able to initialize Massive within Live 8, no problem. Unfortunately, it wants me to activate it. Via the NI Service Center. Which has been terminated. And replaced by Native Access. But as it turns out, Native Access fails at activating my 32-bit version of Massive. Who had guessed? Even when I install the 64-bit vst via Native Access into a folder structure and then place the 32-bit vst into that same folder structure, it does not accept it and still wants me to activate it. Offline activation is also not possible since this feature has been completely removed.
Okay, I thought maybe it's that 32-bit vst version, god knows how old that is. So I downloaded and installed the latest 32-bit version from here (https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/4402771564305-Downloading-the-Last-32-Bit-Versions-of-NI-Products-Windows-) and installed it: No success either - but at least the text on that page is quite enthusiastic about continuing the usage of 32-bit vsts. Okay, maybe I can successfully activate it via the old NI Access version? Downgraded it as described here (https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/4748946468497-How-to-Downgrade-Native-Access-2-to-Native-Access-1) and tried to reinstall Massive via that one. Also no success since the old version also only installs the 64-bit version.
So basically, I own Massive and have a working 32-bit vst of it but can't activate and therefore use it. So my question is: how on earth do I get massive working properly as a 32-bit vst? I mean there must be a way, right? Otherwise offering the download seems pretty useless.