It looks like Image-Line may have stopped allowing non-customers / demo users from registering for free Image-Line user accounts, to prevent them from bombarding the user forums and overloading their staff with too many queries. (they cite "30,000 people every day installing the FL Studio trial" as one of the reasons).I tried to register and there's no link I could find, sorry. It says you have to own some of their products (which I don't because the ones I'm interested are not available).
From reading the forum posts regarding ongoing VST support for Image-Line plugins, it seems that the developers have softened their stance over recent years, with regards to the possibility of supporting/selling these plugins again at some point in the future.
However, I also wouldn't get your hopes up too much, as I believe if they ever do decide to update and start selling them as VST(i)/CLAP, etc., that may still be several years away and rather a low priority for the company. Since, it seems to make far more business sense to focus on improving the DAW's core features and functionality, with view to attracting new customers away from other DAWs. And Image-Line's native plugins would also be viewed as an important draw to enticing newcomers to their DAW.
Statistics: Posted by MrJubbly — Thu Jan 02, 2025 10:58 pm