OK... LAST UPDATE I THINK
everything is ok, everything is solved (tho i am waiting for a redownload and reset of the V4 engine but that was sent through my dad's email because he purchased it. regardless everything else i own works)
In Summary:
- Email every company but most importantly email Yamaha. SonicWire said they could reset my Miku bank so they may help you there but every company will tell you to reach out to Yamaha, or will reach out for you. Let the companies reach out to Yamaha, it is the best wya for them to reset codes. Yamaha will reset your codes for the engines though and they may also do the loids, but they were a bit stubborn in areas tbh.
- You can get support for V3 and V4 engines/vocaloids, theres a reason why theyre still listed on the support form. its not a mistake! i emailed them about V4 and V3 stuff and it was fine.
- As long as you have all your order information certain companies might provide you with a new code (i had this only happen once with Avanna and that was actually a while ago for some other issue). but youre probably gonna get them reset by yamaha and definitely allow the individual companies to reach out for you if they offer!
- if you need to redownload any of the installers, the companies will reset your links/provide you a new link so long as you have purchase information/serial codes! Yamaha said theyd only do this once when i requested Vocaloid4 engine though so be sure to back the download up somewhere safe.
- Most vocaloids should have more than one activation, so if you lost your PC stuff you may have a chance to activate them anyways. though i dont think all loids have 3 activations as some of mine did not activate even though i activated them once. V2 and V1 as far as i could tell only have one activation but im not sure if that was just on my end.
Lastly, it took over a week for Yamaha to respond. Covid stuff is definitely slowing it down. PowerFX and Zero-g were quick, Voctro took over a week, AHS never replied. dont worry too much if you have to wait over a week to hear back!
**yamaha was a bit weird about a few cases stating they couldnt reset a loid or two but the moment the company reached out, it was reset...donno why they were like that so i do encourage asking the companies to reach out if you have an issue as well. more likely theyll respond to the company seriously!
[bit that i added below in a diff reply]
ACTIVATE YOUR LODIS TO A LAN/NIC CARD. i didnt get the option when activating for Vocaloid 5 but on V4 activation (and i think 2/3 and maybe 1?), you can pick where to activate.
Steps to doing this
> first deactivate one loid if you want, as a test, or all.
> (on win 10 at least) check what your card is called if you cant ID it in the list on the activator. go to "network and internet settings" > "Ethernet" > click on the network that says "connected" > scroll down to "manufacturer description" to read what the name of the adapter is so you can ID (in my case i had three adapters so i had to check, you may not!)
> activate your vocaloid and be sure to click on your internet card.
> it will give a warning about making sure to not take out the card. continue
What does this do? It means the activation is tied to the card and NOT your system HDD, meaning if you wanted to go and put an old Windows 7 system HDD into your pc and run vocaloid on there, you wouldnt have to transfer things!
if your PC dies, you wont have to worry about that activation data being destroyed and never recovered, so long as you have the internet card. you can take the card with you to a new pc or simply get a new system drive for your existing pc if you can. hopefully you will not have to do what i did in this thread.