Native Instruments Apple Silicon M1 Compatibility

„Benefit of hindsight“ is giving NI almost too much credit, imho. They took the very risky bet that everything is going to stay the same, lost on several fronts (AS, VST3, possibly standalone Grooveboxes) and are now scrambling to get anything done. It’s sad to see, especially because it was bound to happen at some point.

Other companies like Arturia for example, who have clearly done their homework, are now in a position to run circles around NI. They’ve ported their entire portfolio to new formats and architectures, are gradually updating their old stuff and are putting out new and innovative products like Pigments — while we’re waiting on a modern and unified browser, among other things.

And NI are not only hurting themselves and their customers, they’re potentially damaging 3rd party developers as well. It’s less of a problem, now that Kontakt is native, I guess. But the last couple of days I’ve debated whether I should get the new Tangle Blocks pack by Toybox or not. It should have been a no-brainer (of course!! 🤩) but the uncertainty around Reaktor certainly does not help.

And the foundation for many others NI products. Let’s hope the moment some pieces get the update the rest of pieces take momentum…

@Clay : I was thinking exactly the same thing because I recently updated my Arturia's folder.

Few years ago, Mini V was for exemple super buggy and each update was bringing issues. Then, year after year, I started to see they were updating their stuff more often with better results, always trying to keep the pace with the evolution of software and hardware. As an exemple, their last update for their FX line fixes the issue of the super slow loading of each of their FX plugin. I did a test : they load 2.5 times faster now.

Regarding Pigments, each major update brought amazing new features (additive or granular synthesis for exemple). And it was free each time, with a clever way of making the people pay a bit (they needed to pay a small fee for the new preset banks). Pigments started as a nice soft synth. It's a beast right now, and they even optimized the CPU use so it's less extreme than at the beginning with more features.

NI ? Everything is in this thread...

Everything I need it to do works over Rosetta 2. Glad to see that Kontakt is now Native.

Problem is that the elephant in the room is Avid and Pro Tools. When the Native version of that is released, NI will be under the gun to catch up.

I suspect that Komplete Ultimate 14 will be when we see everything upgraded to AS. NI has a nasty habit of not offering discounted upgrades for the first year and a half after a major version release.

My 2¢

any update on this? it's driving me absolutely crazy. komplete kontrol is an absolute mess. half the time it doesnt even render the UI properly. my native plugins are slow and heavy, while every single other plugin I use - and I mean *****LITERALLY***** every single plugin I use is m1 native. This is unbelievable - how can this have taken so long as we still have no information?? This whole experience has been awful. I'm so put off from native instruments in the future. What on earth is going on??

Yep of course. Many of us know that. But maybe it's not the best way of seeking return on investment to make a big part of the users angry at you or wanting to use other stuff (like Arturia).

I recently upgraded from Komplete 9 to Komplete 13 Ultimate. I have a brand new Macbook Pro M1 Max 10 core w/ 64 Gb RAM running Monterey OS 12.4 - I cannot get 90% of Komplete 13 Ultimate to even INSTALL on my new studio machine, let alone run stuff in Rosetta mode. I did contact support, and although they aren't the fastest in the world, they have responded. Finally, they went ahead and sent me the USB drive of installers, even though I only paid the $299 for the download upgrade (Summer of Sounds Sale) However, I still cant get much of anything to install... Obviously this is a Monterey OS 12.4 incompatibility issue, which I understand... The issue that I have with all of this is that NI just needs to admit that their stuff doesn't work yet with M1/Monterey - Heck it wont even INSTALL - Why waste people's time?? Why waste Support resources on this??

Why p*ss people off and waste their time??

I will probably just keep everything and wait for compatibility, but this is really, really lame....Apple silicon machines have been out now for close to TWO YEARS, and literally every other library/VI/and effects plugin that I own (and I own most of them) works now under M1/Monterey. Come on NI!!!!