Hello,

I downloaded Minimal.Audio.All.Access.2025.12.Incl.Keygen-MOCHA

Then I went to my Windows machine to execute the keygen. I copied all of the licenses that were generated into the hidden files in C:\ProgramData\Minimal

I then registered myself and downloaded all of the installers at https://www.minimal.audio/account/products/software

I blocked the websites (using terminal and sudo nano /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 api.minimalplugins.com

127.0.0.1 api.minimal.audio

127.0.0.1 graphql.minimalplugins.com

127.0.0.1 graphql.minimal.audio

127.0.0.1 raphql.minimal.audio

127.0.0.1 events.minimalplugins.com

127.0.0.1 events.minimal.audio

0.0.0.0 api.minimalplugins.com

0.0.0.0 api.minimal.audio

0.0.0.0 graphql.minimalplugins.com

0.0.0.0 graphql.minimal.audio

0.0.0.0 raphql.minimal.audio

0.0.0.0 events.minimalplugins.com

0.0.0.0 events.minimal.audio

Then I installed the 'all access' installation file.

Then I put the licenses in all of their own folders on my Mac Studio M4 so it looks like this:
Library/Application Support/Minimal/Ripple Phaser (as an example)

I opened Ableton and every plugin opens with the activation message. What am I doing wrong? Can anyone help me with this?

I am on Tahoe 26.0.1

 

wrong post

 

I am sorry, where do I have to post my question then or what did I do wrong?

 

Last edited: Feb 26, 2026 at 8:52 AM

You are attempting to block the plugins from phoning home via the 'hosts' file, but what the NFO actually says is to block your DAW via a firewall, or run your Mac offline.

If you need a generic firewall for Mac, I recommend you start with LuLu by Objective-See. It's free.

 

The hosts entries part is fine. Blocking homecalling prevents connections out to the developer website to try and authenticate its license, and after that periodically to check that the licenses in use are still valid. Once the plugin is working, if it phones home and fails that check, the plugin or program will de-authenticate and stop working. If the plugin, program, or DAW are not blocked, some software will try various ways to verify the plugin has no internet access before any "Offline Installer" method will allowed.

Depending on the amount of information from the system a keygen needs to get from the machine before creating a key, you need to actually run the keygen on the machine you are going to use the software on. Running the keygen on a different Windows machine is not going to work because the machine hardware details are not the same.

This whole installation process, including using the keygen have to all happen on the same Mac. You have to use Crossover (or other) utility that will run the keygen.exe on MacOS.