Kontakt 5 running in demo mode

theStyg

I have Konakt 5, 6, and 7. I need to open a project file from some time ago which used Kontakt 5, but no matter what I do, it always loads in demo mode. This has made working with these old project files a bit of a pain.

I've reinstalled and even tried loading up older versions of Native Access (1.14.1 and 3.2.3)

I'm running on a Mac Studio M1 Max, with macOS Sonoma 14.4.1

Thanks in advance!

Kaiwan_NI

Hi @theStyg you'll need an older version of Native Access for this. Have you checked out this article?

GUITAR RIG 5, KONTAKT and SUPER 8 R2 Open as Demo Versions on Apple Silicon / M-Systems

PoorFellow

Probably a problem related to Apple silicon. (At least that is where I would start looking !) Are you using Rosetta ? , for Kontakt 5 you most likely have to use Rosetta for everything in the chain e.g. DAW and Kontakt (maybe even for the N.A. ? - I don't know) ! And also , don't forget the full disk access for ALL NI apps including NTKDaemon

How to Enable Full Disk Access on macOS

Notes on Network Drives and Disk Formats

Compatibility of Native Instruments Products on macOS

theStyg

Thanks for the response! I tried running Logic in Rosetta but no dice. Seems NTKDaemon and other relevant NI apps already have all the access I can give them. Bunmmer :(

Kaiwan_NI

Hi @theStyg you'll need an older version of Native Access for this. Have you checked out this article?

GUITAR RIG 5, KONTAKT and SUPER 8 R2 Open as Demo Versions on Apple Silicon / M-Systems

theStyg

Yes. I've installed Native Access 3.2.3, both the ARM version and the Intel version that runs in Rosetta and neither has removed the DEMO limitations of any of my player libraries.