I have tons of #Reaper (DAW) projects utilizing #Cakewalk's famous #Z3ta 2+ software synth, bought via #Steam. Since Cakewalk's demise (it now belongs to #Bandlab), it's a big problem to activate Z3ta on a new PC (or an old one with Windows reinstalled).
In fact it turned out it's impossible w/o installing Cakewalk! 'Cos only when it is installed an activation request-response procedure becomes available.
Alright, I've installed CW and re-activated Z3ta, simply because of my custom patches.