Native Instruments losing the plot

Lawnland

Native Instrument has just announced the release of Complete 14 and in the system requirements it stipulates that to run on an M1 mac needs to use Rosetta.

Surely they are taking the Mickey ( could have used a stronger word ) they have spent the last few months working on a new version of it before fixing the fact that most of their software cannot run natively on the new Apple silicon. They seem to think that only providing for Windows users is there preferred platform and thus alienating users who use Mac's , the number of which is growing rapidly. They should advertise their products as not compatible with M1 macs and not have to have people downgrade the power of their new systems by having to run under Rosetta. I urge all people who use Macs to be more vocal about this problem and not to buy any products from NI until this problem is sorted out. It's been nearly 2 years since the release of the new Apple Architecture and most major manufacturers now have native Apple support. My conjecture is that Native Instruments is no longer a major brand in Music Software but a two bit company that just fleeces people from their hard earned cash.

Monochrome

Rosetta doesn't exist for no reason. There are still other companies that haven't made the switch. Complain to Apple that it exists if you dislike it.

NI is fully honest in this regard: Yes, not all products are compatible yet - hence the wording of needing Rosetta for now. But that will change rather soon:

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/30577#Comment_30577

Also, a thread regarding M1 support already exists - let's stick to that one:

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/4913/status-on-m1-m2-update

Jojo123

@Lawnland Coming from a Mac user here. At least you could read the announcements before flying off the handle.

Matt_NI

We already shared so much information about this on here. Please check the resources @Monochrome shared and look at the announcement before creating a new thread about such a widely discussed topic 🙏

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