Kontakt 7.8.1 in Digital Performer and other DAWs crashes Mac after Sonoma 14.4 update

FranckD

Fantastic news ! Thank you for sharing 🙏 Did you test on M2/M3 mac with external screens ?

MHalloran

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/153660#Comment_153660

Yes. My M2 Studio Ultra has three monitors. I tried to ‘break’ it but couldn’t. The macOS 14.5 general release dropped yesterday and K 7.10.2 a couple days before

There are still issues with certain controllers and ProTools, Adobe Acrobat Pro and some other apps but Kontakt 7 and Sonoma now work as advertised. Whew!

Jeremy_NI

@MHalloran Again, thanks a lot for always keeping us updated on this topic! It does look promising, hopefully we'll be able to leave this issue behind!

Jeremy_NI

Hey all, the new Sonoma 14.5 update should be available to everyone now. It's been confirmed by many users already that updating to 14.5 fixed the kernel panics issues, so please update your MacOs and let us know if that fixed it for you.

FranckD

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/153770#Comment_153770

Thank you so much for these great news !

Rich Bitting

I downloaded the new Mac OS 14.5 beta and tried to open Kontakt 7.10.2 both as a stand-alone application and within MOTU DP11 v11.31+95233. It crashes upon trying to open.

MHalloran

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/154387#Comment_154387

macOS 14.5 is no longer beta. Make sure your installed version is 23F79 — see my screen shot. Go into System Settings/General/Software Update to verify your version and update if one is available (it dropped Tuesday and Apple sometimes takes a week to notify but if you check, it should be there). There is no current Developer or Public beta available — all will install the current. If you do not have 23F79 installed and cannot see it, contact Apple and find out why—in most countries, you have access to free telephone support.

I and others are having no problem with it and Kontakt 7.10.2. I am concerned that the stand-alone is crashing as that has never been a problem for any of us.

There are many threads over at motunation.com where I and others will be glad to discuss this.

Jeremy_NI

@Rich Bitting As @MHalloran said. We also had one case where there was a need to apply these steps: Kontakt Crashes (reset the database).