Catalina?, What's the status of the Nomad Factory plugins for Catalina? Options

[jottinger]

What's the status of the Nomad Factory plugins for Catalina? I am jonesing for the Drum Tools and COSMOS, in particular.

[Ashley Smith]

At this time we do not support Catalina (as seen by supported OS at the downloads page up-to 10.14) and advise users to not upgrade should they use our plug-ins in sessions but stick with Mojave as the latest compatible and support OS for our plug-ins. There is currently no hack method to authorize as the Software Activator is a 32-bit application of which we will be dissolving for a new authorization method as used by our latter new plug-ins, activating directly via the plug-in GUI with an activation code.

We're working towards porting all plug-ins to a new framework, refactoring code and reskinning GUI, optimizing and supporting the new macOS Catalina through Apple's notarization requirements. We advised where possible sticking with Mojave until notice.

Given our extensive catalogue however, this will take some time with our small development team. More details are here in the news - http://go.nomadfactory.com/news/n91-Nomad-...-Bright-Future/

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The plug-ins do work however, it's just the activation with the app that does not run. So...

You may wish to try authorizing on another system with older OS using same internet connection to get the license file and then transferring to your Catalina machine by placing in Library/Application Support/Nomad Factory/Licenses. This works and you may try a virtual machine to do so instead if tied to Catalina by the computer you have...

Here's a vid for example to create a virtual machine in which you may then run the outdated Activator to generate your license - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQVAT5SntKk

[jottinger]

You may wish to try authorizing on another system with older OS using same internet connection to get the license file and then transferring to your Catalina machine by placing in Library/Application Support/Nomad Factory/Licenses. This works and you may try a virtual machine to do so instead if tied to Catalina by the computer you have...

Here's a vid for example to create a virtual machine in which you may then run the outdated Activator to generate your license - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQVAT5SntKk

Hmm. I DO have COSMOS and DrumTools activated on a Windows machine - you're saying I could use THAT authorization in Catalina? (Going to Mojave is not an option; this is a new Mac and has never had Mojave or anything other than Catalina on it.)

I looked for what might have been configuration files for COSMOS and DrumTools, because I was going to try it first, but I have NO idea where to look; the windows registry doesn't have a reference that I saw. (It might be there, but *I* didn't see it.) Any idea where those files would live? I'll be glad to try it out, at the very least - I *miss* DrumTools. COSMOS is awesome, but I can live without it; DrumTools is something I *can* work around but I'd rather not.