Post
by jblake » Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:00 pm
I used to use the cracked version of Massive, and I got the same thing.
When assigning an lfo it would very often crash, I would sometimes get the "Multithreading" error message and logic would crash, and entire songs would fail to load if they had instances of Massive in them. I would delete the "nativeinstrumentsmassive.plist" file, etc. and this would solve the problems for long enough for me to remove instances of massive from those song files, but thats about it. The problem would inevitably come back.
Notice, the cracked version of Absynth crashes when you click to the edit panels. See the link?
I worked it out eventually, it seems to be in-built anti-piracy bugs which prevent you from working effectively when you've got a cracked version. This was confirmed on the Absynth NI forum when loads of users were reporting the same problems, and they got their forum accounts banned with the message "It's anti piracy, go and buy it" from a moderator. All the people who owned it were claiming they'd never had the same problem.
I recently came to this conclusion: "fuck it I use this shit every day, I can't work like this any more". I ordered the synth bundle, and since installing it I havent crashed once (compared to the 5 times a session previously). I've had no problems with multithreading, no problems with lfo assignment, and no bugs.
As much as I love the idea of cracked software (for many reasons, some selfish and some not), sometimes you've gotta pay for quality, and NI have everyone over a barrel, which is quite reasonable really cause it's the best software you can get.