Hello,

I am trying to install the latest Plogue Chipsounds and Plogue Aria engine but am running into activation issues, after about 5 minutes of using chipsounds a screen appears saying the trial period has ended. I am running windows 10 x64 on my computer. I've tried many reinstalls, tried installing in different orders etc, still same result unfortunately. I am wondering if I am missing a step in the activation, so I will go over what I have tried in order:

-Installed Plogue Chipsounds v1.848-R2R
-Installed Plogue Aria Engine ARIA Engine v1.877
-Replaced .dll files in c:/program files/plogue/chipsounds/vst with the ones provided in the R2R folder
-Ran Aria_Keygen.exe and chose Plogue chipsounds, filled in email line, clicked generate to generate a .png licence
-Started chipsounds.exe standalone, drag and drop .png onto chipsounds. I get the activation message..

After ~5 minutes of use I get the trial expired screen. If I had to guess, I think it's something to do with Aria Engine? I did not apply any patches to it or anything and it isn't listed in the Aria_Keygen.exe, only Garritan Aria Player or Plogue Aria Engine Free Sounds vol 1

I also did come across a post on this site where someone had the same issue as me here:
https://audiosex.pro/threads/plogue-aria-engine-v1-872-x-my-windows-7-version-a-big-crap.26303/

I've tried running the keygen as admin, and it's not blocked as outlined in that post. Maybe I'm just being stupid and missing a step? Thanks for your help, this is a really cool site and community.

 

After you install any packages or libraries, you should re-install ARIA Engine,
because some package or libraries will overwrite your ARIA Engine installation.
Make sure that you are using the latest patched ARIA Engine.

 

Also, if you still have Camel Audio Alchemy (The 32 bit version) I (vaguely) remember opening Plogue Chipsounds within that. It was a very long time ago though

 

Thanks for your help!

I have tried reinstalling aria engine and regenerating the licence file and applying it, but it is still expiring after ~5 minutes.
I've even tried uninstalling everything and starting over from scratch but it never seems to work..

Is there a crack for aria engine itself? All that is in the R2R file is aria_keygen.exe, in the list of available programs aria engine isn't on the list?

also somewhat related - I am using ableton live 9, but I'm currently just trying to get chipsounds standalone to work first.

 

Thanks Pinkman.

I still am getting the demo expired screen. Here's what I did:

-Uninstalled chipsounds and aria engine
-Installed Plogue.Chipsounds.v1.848-R2R

-replaced .dlls located in C:\Program Files\Plogue\chipsounds\VST
-replaced .dlls located in C:\Program Files\Common Files\VST2\Plogue Art et Technologie, Inc
-replaced .dlls located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\VST2\Plogue Art et Technologie, Inc
-replaced C:\Program Files\Plogue\chipsounds\AAX\chipsounds.aaxplugin\Contents\x64\chipsounds.aaxplugin​

-Installed Plogue.ARIA.Engine.v1.870.Incl.Patched.and.Keygen-R2R

-replaced two .dlls in C:\Program Files\Plogue\Aria​

-Ran aria_keygen.exe, selected plogue chipsounds, fill in email feild, click generate and saved .png into C:\Program Files\Plogue\chipsounds
-Ran chipsounds.exe, drag and drop the .png onto the application and I get the activation message

And it's still expiring after ~5 minutes for me. Hmmm...

Edit: Tried installing another pack to see if it gets the same issue. I installed Plogue.Chipspeech.v1.066-R2R, then installed aria afterward, activated it and it expires after ~5 minutes as well. I think I'm going to try an even earlier version of aria engine and see if that will stay activated.
Edit 2: no dice.
Edit 3: I went ahead and installed it on another computer which is also running windows 10 x64. I installed Plogue.Chipsounds.v1.848-R2R and Plogue.ARIA.Engine.v1.870.Incl.Patched.and.Keygen-R2R in the same fashion as described above. It's probably been 20 minutes now and it hasn't expired yet. WTF? This is driving me nuts lol..
Edit 4: nvm it's expired on the other computer too.

Final edit??: For some reason when I use chipsounds inside of ableton it seems to behave somewhat. What happened was the 4 minutes would end and a note would get stuck and play constantly, so I changed the instrument to something else and then back to chipsounds. I only did that once and it hasn't stopped working for over an hour now. Awesome? Thanks for your help guys

 

Last edited: Oct 7, 2016

Hello Forum!! (1st post ))

Hi@ unlimitedwings & Pinkman
I am heading down the same road but can not get the keygen to work either.
Is the "Email" window in the keygen of any importance? what is the purpose here?
Thanks for clarification if possible

@Pinkman : Could you post which versions of what you managed to get working?
Thank you all for your posts!!

 

You can put whatever you like in the email, friend. It's just to generate a key.

All the most recent R2R releases work. Always firewall every Plogue standalone .exe and re-install and patch ARIA after all other library installs.

 

I just wanted to say thanks! I just got it to work.
Until I followed your advice to block all the .exe files in the firewall I couldn't apply the png file to register my Garritan World Instruments.
Since I donwloaded around 7 different versions of ARIA players/engines I can not exactly say which combination I got to work.
I would trust in Pinkman's "all recent R2R releases work" :P

For the Player it was either: v1.504 HAPPY NEW YEAR - R2R by deepstatus or v1.860-R2R by oddsox ( I am not sure if I am allowed to write these details ;P if not please somebody edit my post)

for the engine it was Plogue v1.877 Incl Patched and Keygen-R2R
if there is no aria_x64.dll and aria_x86.dll in this release, then I probably used the .dlls from Plogue Pack 09-2015-R2R by deepstatus.
This one includes the .dll files in the "Plogue ARIA Engine v1.839" folder.

Sorry if anybody is confused by this, I am writing this in a hurry, so: good luck!
don't forget to replace the vst .dll files and so on! follow the instructions in the R2R txt files

AND BIG THANKS TO PINKMAN! The man. evidently. despite the pinkness.

 

Useless reply dude (aka bla bla bla) please read carefully what he've wrote!
We need an useless vote button!

 

Last edited: Dec 26, 2016

Plogue Chipsounds is badly cracked, fortunately they're another good chiptune synths/banks, such AudioThing's miniBit, or the excellent Super Audio Cart (as Kontakt 5 library, from Impact Soundworks).

 

Last edited: Dec 26, 2016

You're late. You're late for
some very unimportant hate.

My chipsounds works fine and I see a new v1.877 next door if need be. Thank you for your concern though and a Merry belated Christmas to you.

chipsounds and chipcrusher are phenomenal and I encourage support.
https://www.plogue.com/products/chipsounds/
https://www.plogue.com/products/chipcrusher/

 

Last edited: Dec 26, 2016

Be sure it's no hate, simply you mention what R2R have wrote in their docs (R2R.txt).
"unlimitedwings" member followed the procedure as he've described precisely, and doesn't work as expected. Having the same issue, for lastest releases (I've sent posts on AS and its sister website today).

If Chipsounds is working for you, so much the better, really. Be sure I'm not an angry guy.

About encourage support: I'm not computer music professional / producer, just an hobbyist and unemployed (=> no rich) this month I've bought two synths (RAPID and Avenger) for around 300 bucks. Chipsound isn't in pipe, really if I need chiptune synthesizer, probably miniBit (AudioThing) will be my next choice (for 20 euros).

Merry (belated) X-mas too, Pinkman!

 

How do you create these pictures? Photoshop filter ?

 

The Cutout filter in Photoshop is fastest.
Works better if you duplicate the image and apply different levels of the filter and opacity to each layer.
For different textures Image > Adjustments > Posterize first.

For higher quality like the Mr. Pink image, use Live Trace/Image Trace in Adobe Illustrator.

 

CAN YOU PLEASE SHARE THE FILES OF PLOGUE ARIA FILES..MAINLY that Aria_x86 and Aria_x64