Kontakt 7 causing Kernel panic shutoff on Mac Studio! (KT-8785)

Yeah that sounds like a mega annoying issue. So I'll try to help a little bit based off of what I know:
- Earlier in this thread by "PoorFellow" posted this:

"Source : Kernel Panic on Sleep with MacMini Using HDMI and USB-C Monitors With Custom Resolution (with App Not Running) #2622

Comment by waydabber Mar 15, 2024

No problem. I understand people expect their Macs to work properly out of the box and whenever there is a crash, the first suspect is a third party app - and when the crash is related to a display, the suspect will be a third party app that deals with displays. I think in exactly the same lines whenever such a thing happens. :)

These DCPEXT issues date back to the first Apple Silicon Macs. It seems Apple still could not resolve all these issues even though the DCP's formware/rtOS is being tweaked all the time. My experience is that Sonoma actually made things worse (as I mentioned, I can replicate the DCP error issue anytime by simply playing a video on a screen A and use accessibility zoom on screen B, the bug is probably related to the way Sonoma changed how multi-monitor zoom works. The same thing happens on M1, M2, M3, completely unrelated systems/installations. Also, many displays that work fine on PCs (or Intel Macs) produce all kinds of connection/sleepwake/no-signal etc issues on Apple Silicon Macs. There are many other display related bugs as well (obviously I came across these heavily)."
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- There's probably some insight there. Specifically, the points about it being replicated with accessibility zooms on displays (yours seems to happen with a gesture move, which is a big problem!).

- Set your Kontakt 7 windows to 100% zoom by default. And leave them alone.
- Reset your system preferences Display settings and leave them on default if you can and see if you can still work normally.

- I had an old bug related to Guitar Rig 6 that was crashing me in Ableton Live Suite 11 whenever I had other plug-ins open with it (namely iZotope plug-ins). I also had issues with Ableton crashing with Kontakt 7 plug-ins, namely the Electric guitar plug-ins. The solution was two-fold: update Ableton and Native access, and then ditch Guitar Rig 6 (I think it's since been fixed but I wouldn't know because I wanted to use Guitar Rig 7).

- If you're experiencing this annoying kernel issue AFTER updating to 14.4.1, then I suggest creating a new thread and also report it to NI for Kontakt 7 and share the thread with them and the moderators as well. They can't solve your issue unless they have all the info (plus crash logs) from your sessions.

- You can post your crash log on the Apple Developer Feedback forum and see if it gets any hits.

- You can also connect with a senior advisor in the creative apps division of Apple support to see if it's something they can actually fix on their end (which would, inevitably help the entire world, lol).

I don't necessarily disagree with you. I'm a software dev myself, an audio engineer, and I work in DSP and audio software projects. Code like theirs is a real pain. Like you're getting at, this code is really contingent on the platform itself and does not exist very solidly up against updates. With that being said, the best we can do is hope for them to actually listen to our cries for help. Idk who's at the top of NI but having to wait for them to even respond is a real pain in the toosh. For that, I get it. However, I'm hoping this thread can be for solutions that actually work. The sad part of all of this is that I have no clue what exactly is causing the issue. All I can do is offer my findings and troubleshoot it to the best of my ability. Hopefully we find something soon. My assumption for why I'm not experiencing exactly what you guys are experiencing is that I'm on a Mac Studio. Idk at all why THAT makes a difference (or maybe it's specific plug-ins)???? I'm not sure. Lemme know how I can help guys! :)