Anwida Plugin repeated authorization

[Richard Rupert]

Hi All,

I recently upgraded my studio computer and installed all my plugins, including several by Anwidasoft. Unfortunately, for some reason I have to re-authorize them every time I run SAWStudio. They return to their demo mode whenever I close and re-open SAW.

Has anyone else experienced this problem and solved it?

Thanks,
Richard

[jmh]

Yea, I really like some of these effects and had some machine change many years ago - and getting hold of Awinda was impossible - or maybe they lost track of the customer database. I hacked around on this problem. This is off the top of my head...

at command prompt run regedit and search for awinda

one of the keys will have an entry of a long number which is a unix timestamp. I forget if it is decimal or hex. Anyway, you should be able to either use date on a mac or linux or online search of unix timestamp calculator and replace the timestamp with one several years in the future.

Windows may have the same functionality in 'date' too. Pass it the help parameter.

save then you should be OK for the next few years...

[Richard Rupert]

Yea, I really like some of these effects and had some machine change many years ago - and getting hold of Awinda was impossible - or maybe they lost track of the customer database. I hacked around on this problem. This is off the top of my head...

at command prompt run regedit and search for awinda

one of the keys will have an entry of a long number which is a unix timestamp. I forget if it is decimal or hex. Anyway, you should be able to either use date on a mac or linux or online search of unix timestamp calculator and replace the timestamp with one several years in the future.

Windows may have the same functionality in 'date' too. Pass it the help parameter.

save then you should be OK for the next few years...

Wow!! It really shouldn't be that difficult, should it? I'll see if I can accomplish that. Thanks!!

[Dave Labrecque]

I had an email exchange with Massimiliano in 2014 about registration stuff. Looks like the current site is down, but promising something new coming soon, so he may still be active. All you can do is try.

I have three addresses:

[email]support2 at anwida dot com[/email]
[email]myaccount at anwida dot com[/email]
[email]contact at anwida dot com[/email]

But jmh's approach is interesting...

[jmh]

Like I said, I found this a while ago - and only because I work with timestamps...

I just ran

date+%s

on my linux laptop. The result was
1566855416
which is one less than the number of seconds since 1969 UTC

So if you recently installed the plugins one of the keys will be a number near this.


On my old machine I have a key in the following regedit directory:

My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AWINDA Soft\SS Flanger for SAWStudio\1.5.000

(and a similarly named directory for each effect)

There is a key named FR which is set to:
2100000000
which would be a time in 2036*

If this is the right key (and it probably is), it's value in your machine will probably be about the number from the date command above or less. If that is the case, change that key to 2100000000 (that's 8 zeros) for each effect - otherwise I'll poke around some more.



*There is a maximum value for unixtime which represents a date in 2038 (the world may end like with the Y2K bug only climate change may take us there first) where the datatype wraps.


Note to Awinda developer: If you make a 64 bit version, I will only buy an upgrade it if does not have some stupid registration system. There was probably a year or two that these did not work for me. As it is, I feel owed for 'loss of services'. I annoy my wife sometimes, and get deprived of plugin functionality - I don't want to add to the situation.

[Dave Labrecque]

I annoy my wife sometimes, and get deprived of plugin functionality - I don't want to add to the situation.

Good God, y'all.

[Richard Rupert]

Like I said, I found this a while ago - and only because I work with timestamps...

I just ran

date+%s

on my linux laptop. The result was
1566855416
which is one less than the number of seconds since 1969 UTC

So if you recently installed the plugins one of the keys will be a number near this.


On my old machine I have a key in the following regedit directory:

My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AWINDA Soft\SS Flanger for SAWStudio\1.5.000

(and a similarly named directory for each effect)

There is a key named FR which is set to:
2100000000
which would be a time in 2036*

If this is the right key (and it probably is), it's value in your machine will probably be about the number from the date command above or less. If that is the case, change that key to 2100000000 (that's 8 zeros) for each effect - otherwise I'll poke around some more.



*There is a maximum value for unixtime which represents a date in 2038 (the world may end like with the Y2K bug only climate change may take us there first) where the datatype wraps.


Note to Awinda developer: If you make a 64 bit version, I will only buy an upgrade it if does not have some stupid registration system. There was probably a year or two that these did not work for me. As it is, I feel owed for 'loss of services'. I annoy my wife sometimes, and get deprived of plugin functionality - I don't want to add to the situation.

Holy Cow... that worked!! My plugins are now holding their registration. Thanks, JMH. And I hope your plugin functionality deprivation gets forever resolved. (At least until 2038).

[jmh]

[quote="Richard"]Thanks, JMH. And I hope your plugin functionality deprivation gets forever resolved. (At least until 2038). ]

...not to worry. That was a joke. Because I would never annoy my wife!

[Warren]

...not to worry. That was a joke. Because I would never annoy my wife!

I don't let mine read my posts, for good reason!
She cooks.

[jmh]

Now I have a problem

Who knows the installer file name?

I've built a new machine and have to re-install anwida myself. I have it - just a matter of finding it.

The webpage is as unresponsive as ever - but good things are coming...

[Naturally Digital]

Now I have a problem

Who knows the installer file name?

I've built a new machine and have to re-install anwida myself. I have it - just a matter of finding it.

I have a few Anwida installers... I'm not even sure what they all are anymore. The version numbers are part of the filenames but I'm only going to list the alpha parts.

ntmpss, pareq, spazioss, equopackss, asdxrlss

I also have ASAppActivator files in that folder. I haven't installed these in many years.

HTH

[jmh]

ntmpss

My guess is that that is the one. I only had the NaTive Modulation Pack - now to look though the stack of old drives. I recently went though this looking for something else. I wound up throwing away many of the floppys and burned cds that I had created for archival purposes that no longer would read.

So much for history - it is not saying much that my memory is my best long term storage device. A few more decades and that too will be ashes to ashes...

Thanks.

[jmh]

I never found the installer - or the activator. But after a couple of false starts, I got it going. Here is how:

I copied the anwida plugins, associated files and sub-directory from an old SStudio installation's Native_PlugIns folder to the new machine. When you use one of the plugins for the first time, it creates the needed registry entries. Once they exist, you can edit the FR field(s) as described earlier in this thread.

John

[jmh]

I guess I haven't used one of these 32 bit native plugins since my last build because I encountered the license message.

I decided to do this the easy way with a .reg file (I'll keep this online for a month or two, so get it now if you are ever going to need it):



AWINDA_Registry_Key.reg

How to use (if you own this software and it is non-functional):

Open in notepad to make sure the path to your plugins and version is correct, and adjust as needed so it will not overwrite any settings.

Right click, and then select merge. This will activate the plugins until 2036.


I noticed that their website is active now. It appears they only support AU & VST3 - it is ironic since half of their endorsements are studio users...