Love the new design. You guys are the best.
Jeffrey Stratton

Thank you! It worked! The plugins showed up.

You don’t have to authorize each one manually. Go to Account>Manage Devices, go to the Activate Existing Device and all of the plugins that you have available to you will be licensed to that machine.
Also, quick tip, you can download an offline license even if your machine isn’t normally an offline machine, and all your plugins will be ready to go when you pop them up for the first time, whether you’re online or not.

And I was wrong about Melda – offline activation/authorization is still available in the plugin manager. I should have informed myself a little better before claiming there was no such option anymore :///) In my defense, I was shocked to find out installers weren’t available to download anymore :)

sampleson.com/collab3-free-tonewheel-organ.html

just type in “free”

I try to avoid it whenever it’s possible. Most of the commercial software that I use can be installed with no internet connection and is serial number or registry file authorized. That way I don’t depend on the internet at all and honestly I don’t like the level of control companies try to establish over customers and I really don’t like it when they treat honest customers like criminals and require iLok while others happily use cracked versions of their plugins.

Lately, I’ve got rid of the most of software managers, starting with those that require a constant internet connection for plugins to work (you don’t want to be connected to the internet while working, because some of them will randomly decide to call home and some point and if you have a bunch of those installed, that can seriously affect your DAW performance (it consumes RAM, CPU and disk). I’ve only kept the ones that can be uninstalled after the plugins have been installed. ATM, I’m working on a laptop that I also use for the internet, but planning on building a studio-only machine (again) and I’d prefer it to never once have to be internet connected. That keeps a machine much cleaner.

Well, there’s more but those would be the most important reasons :)

Hi Alex,
Why is online activation unwanted?

Not really, they have a plugin manager now and no offline installation/authorization option. Not acceptable to me. I’ll stick with v16.

BTW: brainworx is the older company, which started plugin alliance some years later ;-)

years later, plugin alliance was bought by native instruments at the same time, that ni bought izotope

Melda are amazing.
My go to every time.
Incredible deals, and depth of control way beyond anything else I’ve seen.
Even their massive free bundle is amazing, and the subscibe to own package is really fair and generous.
No iLok, or other BS.