Once you install and open your Mixing Night Audio plugins in your DAW for the first time, it will prompt you to activate it using your plugin license key (which can be found in your User Account area). Once you’ve done that, the plugin will be activated and can be used in any DAW on the activated machine.

No. You can also activate your plugin using our offline activation process, which will be accessible from the plugin during the initial activation. You will still need a different device that’s able to go online in order to follow the steps and activate your offline device.

In order to activate our plugins on an offline machine, you first have to open the plugin in your DAW. You’ll be given an activation screen where you can activate the plugin.

At the bottom of this screen, click the “Are you offline?” link. The link will take you to the following screen:

From here, you can follow the steps that are outlined on this screen. First, click the “Save ID File” button, which will save a unique file to your machine. You then have to take this file and move it to an online computer. There, you go to mixingnightaudio.com and log into your user account. In your user account, your find your GreenHAAS license and a button saying “Offline Activation”.

After clicking this button, you’ll see the following window:

Please drag and drop the file you’ve copied over from the offline machine earlier into the highlighted area. Now, the website will automatically generate your license file and download it to your default download folder.

Make sure you don’t have downloads blocked or any other system in place that prevents your browser from downloading your license file. This might also happen if you have disabled Javascript or other essential browser functionalities.

Finally, you copy this new license file over to your offline machine and click on the “Load Activation File” button. Upon selecting your new activation file (it has the extension .mno), GreenHAAS will activate itself, and you’re good to go.

We are currently working on a solution for you to be able to deactivate your unused machines from your account area. At the moment, while this option isn’t available yet, once you need to free up an activation, please email us at support@mixingnightaudio.com with the machine you would like to deactivate. We will then take care of the deactivation for you.

No. If you need more activations, you have to buy an additional copy of the same plugin.

Yes, you can’t copy and paste the license key or write an “@” sign because Reaper is programmed in a way that DAW shortcuts overwrite actions that are taken in the plugin. That’s an issue many plugin manufacturers have with Reaper, and it’s specifically with German keyboard formats (since the “@” is “Alt/Option+L”, which is a Reaper shortcut). The only way to work around this is by temporarily changing your keyboard format to US. Then you can hit “Shift+2” in order to get the “@” symbol. Unfortunately, the license key still needs to be typed in manually. We hope Reaper will fix this issue soon.