I NEED HELP WITH INSTALL/ACTIVATION

Burton-Allan wrote on 4/20/2022, 11:45 PM

I have 4-licenses for Sound Forge 11 and I just bought a new computer. It is bundled with the Izotope Mastering Suite and you don't have the Serial Number/Activation Code for the Izotope Mastering Suite. Without that Suite, the program sucks and is useless and I paid for 4-licenses. I don't want to upgrade. The newer version does not include that Izotope Mastering Suite. I paid for this!! I want to install it with the program. You open the program and try to use it and it wants to activate!! You have no serial numbers or codes listed on my products to activate the Izotope bundled suite.

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SP. wrote on 4/21/2022, 12:18 AM

@Burton-Allan The code should be listed in your iZotope customer account you created back then when you registered the mastering suite for the first time.

rraud wrote on 4/21/2022, 10:38 AM

As I recall, Sound Forge Pro 11 included iZotope's Nectar Suite.
SFP- 9 and 10 included iZ's Direct X mastering suite (I and II) which will not run on 64 bit SF or 64 bit Vegas. Nectar was VST-2 plug-ins as I recall and should run. As @SP. stated, log-in to your iZotope account to download and retrieve your iZotope serials (assuming you registered Nectar when you initially installed the iZ plug-ins). Magix versions of SFP include iZotope's Ozone Elements and RX Elements, among the (SCS) legacy and newer Magix plug-ins).

the program sucks and is useless

Then why do you have four licenses.. Thousands of other plug-ins (free and otherwise) will run just fine on SFP-11.

Burton-Allan wrote on 4/21/2022, 7:59 PM

I got it to work, but, to clarify for you. NO, Sound Forge 11 does not have the newer Nectar. It was an awesome bundle before Izotope started charging into the high hundreds for top plug-ins. It is the equivalent of what would probably be a $1000 Izotope bundle today. They don't sell it that way anymore. It was a complete set of Mastering tools that was sold before Magix bought it from Sony. It was really a Sony bundle. Izotope has diluted it to Ozone and Nectar and bits and pieces with some improvements now at Izotope. You get seperate codes to load Sound Forge and to load the Izotope plug-ins. I got the Izotope activation codes from Sony when I first bought it. But, Magix doesn't store the codes in the Magix account. Only the Sound Forge 11 codes. Sound Forge loaded and then prompts me for the Izotope activation codes. Fortunately, Izotope had stored my activation code in an account and I was able to obtain it from Izotope or I would have been screwed. Izotope no longer would have activated it again. I guess it is legacy stuff. But, my original activation and serial# had been stored at Izotope. I bought extra licenses for Sound Forge 11 when it was still available because it was not offered in any other version of Sound Forge. I have newer Izotope plug-ins I bought, but, nothing compares to the completeness and excellent bundle in that package which was never sold seperately. I was able to load Sound Forge 11 into Windows 11 with a bug that I found a fix for on the internet and now it works perfectly. This was the last version that Sony sold before selling to Magix which, I guess, could not get an agreement to maintain the Izotope plug-ins into Sound Forge 12 and beyond. But, you can't even buy this Mastering bundle. I feel fortunate I still have it. Would have felt a real big loss to lose it. SP's answer was correct. Thankfully, Izotope had it stored in an account. Thank You everyone for responding quickly. So frustrating to get a new computer and you can't get it loaded and ready to go.