Most computer musicians who use the popular FL Studio sequencer (formerly Fruity Loops) to create their compositions and realize their creative ideas often ask questions about how to activate FL Studio 12 or other modifications of the application so that it is possible to use absolutely all program features without constant reminder of the end of the trial period. To perform this operation, several basic methods are provided, however, it all depends on how the program was received and how legitimate the method chosen by the user will be.
How to activate FL Studio 12 or any other version of the sequencer purchased officially?
To begin, consider the option of unlocking the program for cases when it was purchased completely officially. How to activate FL Studio 12? To do this, there are two options that are available for use when opening the settings window for the main parameters with the transition to the About tab.
Here you can use either a registered account and click the Unlock with account button, or specify the license file that is supplied directly when purchasing the application, for which you need to click the Unlock with file button. However, given that the official release of this virtual sequencer is quite expensive by our standards, users of the post-Soviet space are in no hurry to buy it, but prefer illegal methods to unblock programs in a sense.
Unofficial Activation
Today, on various sites in Runet, you can find versions of FL Studio that come with a “tablet”. Most often, these are unofficial assemblies from the notorious R2R cracker group. Speaking about how to activate FL Studio 12 or any other version of the sequencer when downloading just such distributions, you can also suggest using two main methods that directly depend on the contents of the downloaded archive.
Firstly, sometimes an additional utility is supplied with the installer in the form of a key generator (KeyGen), and secondly, recently all activation has been reduced to launching an accompanying registry file on behalf of the administrator with the subsequent confirmation of merging and making changes to the registry. In such ways, not only the main application is unlocked, but also all the “native” plug-ins of the program that could be downloaded from other sources. It is clear that in this case the FL Studio 12 activation key is not required. Unlock information is entered into the system registry automatically.
How to install plugins in FL Studio 12 and activate them if they do not work?
As for installing plugins of other formats (VST, AAX, DX, etc.), here, too, is not so simple. Most often we use the same generators that either create the keys themselves, which you need to enter in special fields of inactive instruments and effects, or generate separate license files, the links to which you need to choose when unlocking the plugins.
It’s not always advisable to install the instruments and effects themselves into the default folders selected by programs.
You can specify your own directories, however, using the plug-in management directly in the sequencer, you need to add such directories to the list where the application will search for instruments and effects on its own.
But most of the problems are usually related to the broken libraries of the popular Kontakt sampler. Even after its initial activation, some libraries are still blocked.
In this case, you do not need to unblock the libraries themselves, but rather use the re-activation of the sampler itself. By the way, on the Internet you can even find generators that allow you to activate absolutely all known plugins from Native Instruments in automatic mode.
Speaking about how to activate FL Studio 12 and additional synthesizer modules or effects that can work through the host program, you should not forget that many VST-tools can initially be downloaded as cracked versions, and after installing them, it will be enough for the user to only replace the original ones files of EXE formats (for versions of Standalone) and DLL (for VST-format) for the corresponding hacked components.