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Upgrade from Mac App Store Version

Introduction

Users who purchased the Mac version of Augmatic GRE through the Apple App Store before the release of version 2.0 are eligible for a free upgrade to the full desktop package.

Augmatic GRE 2.0 for Mac is not available through the Mac App Store. Learn why.

You only have to upgrade once, and it takes a few minutes. You'll get a Desktop License Key by email, and you can use it for any new version and installation in the future. The license gives you the Mac Standalone app, the AU plugin for Logic Pro, and the VST3 and CLAP plugins for other DAWs and all Windows versions, for free.


1. Get Your Proof of Purchase

  • Make sure that the App Store version of Augmatic GRE is installed on your Mac.
  • Download and run the Installer for Mac. Wait for IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MAC USERS window.
  • Click on "Save Proof of Purchase"
  • The installer will save the augmatic-gre-upgrade-proof.txt file to your Desktop.

IMPORTANT: Save the augmatic-gre-upgrade-proof.txt file before installing GRE 2.0. The installation replaces the App Store version, and the Proof of Purchase file will be removed.

The augmatic-gre-upgrade-proof.txt file contains nothing that identifies you.

2. Get Your Free License

  • Upload augmatic-gre-upgrade-proof.txt from your Desktop using the box below:
  • Click the REDEEM button above.
  • Your 100% discount code will appear immediately after you add the augmatic-gre-upgrade-proof.txt file and click REDEEM the button. This will not yet your license. You can copy and save the discount code, if you want to stop and continue later.
  • Click GET AUGMATIC 2.0 LICENSE button under your discount code. The checkout opens with the code already applied.
  • Enter any email address you'd like to use for your licence and complete the checkout.

Our store, on the Lemon Squeezy platform, will send you the Desktop License Key. Keep that email — it is your proof of the desktop license from now on.

3. Install and Activate

  • Run the installer again and continue past the first screen.
  • Open Augmatic GRE — the Standalone App, or the plugin in your DAW.
  • Enter the Desktop License Key you received by email from Lemon Squeezy and click Activate — this needs an internet connection and is only done once.

That's it! Enjoy the new features in Augmatic GRE 2.0, including the bundled VST3 and CLAP plugins.


Troubleshooting

The installer has no IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR MAC USERS screen

The installer shows this screen only for an App Store purchase made before Augmatic GRE 2.0 was released, and only on a Mac where the App Store version is installed. Two causes:

  • No App Store version on this Mac — open the Mac App Store, click your name at the bottom left, download Augmatic GRE again, then run the installer again.
  • A purchase made after Augmatic GRE 2.0 was released — the free upgrade does not cover it.
The page says the purchase was made after Augmatic GRE 2.0 was released

The free upgrade covers App Store purchases made before Augmatic GRE 2.0 was released. This purchase was made later, so it does not include a discount code.

The page says the file is not a proof of purchase, or cannot be verified

Upload augmatic-gre-upgrade-proof.txt exactly as the installer saved it — do not open and re-save it.

The page says the receipt is for a different app

Upload the augmatic-gre-upgrade-proof.txt file the Augmatic GRE 2.0 installer saved, not a file from another app.

The security check did not pass

Complete it again and click REDEEM.

You already used your code

Your Desktop License Key is in the email from our store, sent to the address you entered at checkout. Search that inbox for an email with "lemonsqueezy" in it.

You installed 2.0 before you saved augmatic-gre-upgrade-proof.txt

Get the App Store version back, then save the file:

  1. Move Augmatic GRE from your Applications folder to the Trash.
  2. Open the Mac App Store, click your name at the bottom left, and download Augmatic GRE again.
  3. Start again from 1. Get Your Proof of Purchase on this page.
Your presets from the App Store version are missing in Augmatic GRE 2.0

Your presets are still on your Mac. The App Store version kept them in its own private folders, and Augmatic GRE 2.0 uses a different folder. The App Store version kept the presets you saved in the Standalone App apart from the presets you saved in the plugin in your DAW:

  • Standalone App — ~/Library/Containers/com.arturnowak.augmatic.gre/Data/Library/Application Support/AugmaticGRE/Presets/User
  • Plugin in your DAW — ~/Library/Containers/com.arturnowak.augmatic.gre.greAUv3/Data/Library/Application Support/AugmaticGRE/Presets/User

Augmatic GRE 2.0 reads your presets from ~/Library/Application Support/AugmaticGRE/Presets/User. To copy them there:

  1. Open Augmatic GRE 2.0 once, then close it. This creates the folder for your presets.
  2. In Finder, choose Go > Go to Folder, paste the Standalone App folder from the list above, and press Return.
  3. Select everything in that folder and choose Edit > Copy.
  4. Choose Go > Go to Folder again, paste ~/Library/Application Support/AugmaticGRE/Presets/User, press Return, and choose Edit > Paste Items.
  5. Do steps 2 to 4 again for the plugin folder. If Finder cannot find a folder, you did not save presets there — skip it.
  6. Open Augmatic GRE 2.0. Your presets are in the preset browser.

Why Augmatic GRE for Mac is not on Apple App Store anymore?

Augmatic GRE 2.0 for Mac is not available through the Mac App Store. Instead, it is distributed directly through our website and the Lemon Squeezy platform.

Version 2.0 introduces one of the most ambitious features we've ever developed: multitrack MIDI output. The new Harmonic Drumming feature transforms rhythms generated by GRE into melodies, basslines, arpeggios, and chords through multitrack MIDI output. This capability relies on UDP communication, which is incompatible with App Store sandboxing requirements. Moving to direct distribution enables multitrack MIDI output, a capability that would not be possible in an App Store release. Read more in the User Manual.

App Store Receipt

If you redeem a free upgrade from a Mac App Store purchase on augmaticaudio.com, you upload your App Store receipt — the augmatic-gre-upgrade-proof.txt file. We check it once to issue your discount code and do not keep it. We keep a record of the original purchase date and the code we issued, so the same purchase always receives the same code, and nothing that identifies you. The security check next to REDEEM is run by Cloudflare. It checks your browser and IP address to block automated requests.

The App Store receipt is a file Apple places inside every app bought from the Mac App Store, so that the app's developer can confirm the purchase is genuine. It holds the app's identifier and version, the purchase date, an anonymous device token and Apple's signature — no name, no Apple ID, no email, no payment details.