Kernel Panic on macOS 15 Sequoia with M4 Chip Opening Kontakt 8 and Reaktor (Komplete 15)

A long shot to try…for those who are having this issue, are your macOS Settings → General → Language & Region" in other languages other than US English or UK English? If they are not, try setting it to US English or UK English as the topmost preferred language, reboot your Mac, and try again. It could be a rare language setting issue perhaps? (The OP screenshot of Logic Pro crash report looks to be in Italian.)

Unfortunately not. I'm getting these crashes with Live 12.

Edit: Reading through the vi-control thread Vocalpoint posted above, I have to wonder – what the hell is NI doing? It surely takes some effort to crash a modern OS in the year 2025, and it's kinda embarrassing if high resolution monitors really are the root cause of this. NI, please get your act together.

As I’ve written before (not sure if here or elsewhere), I haven’t had any problems on my M1 MBP. It started when I switched to an M4 Pro MBP (not a Max model, but with a few improvements, like TB5, compared to the base model) last fall. Time flies.

In any case, NI and Apple should have all the information they need. But I haven’t heard back in almost 2 months, while other user reports are piling up. That’s not a good look at all.

I agree, that’s why I wrote „NI and Apple“ (not in the posting you were replying though, so, fair enough).

Although it’s fair to assume, I think, that NI is using some bespoke, oldass libraries, at least in Reaktor, possibly triggering some obscure OS or controller bug. But that’s all speculation, of course.

According to NI the products in question are fully and officially supported on the platform I’m using. It’s only natural that I expect it to work. Maybe not on day one, but that ship has sailed a long time ago.

Look, I’m not here to argue with you or anyone else. I just wanted to update the thread to clarify what’s happening, and to publicly remind NI that I’m still waiting. I’m doing my best to stay patient, but it’s been almost half a year, and I haven’t been able to use plugins and a whole ecosystem I’ve invested a lot of time and money into.

Adding to my growing and hopefully understandable frustration is the fact that the great Antonio Blanca released a new Reaktor ensemble just a few days ago. I’d love to buy it, if only to send a signal that there’s still a market for commercial Reaktor tools. But for obvious reasons I’m not gonna spend any money on NI related stuff at this moment in time, which means I’ll most likely miss the intro price, AB will lose a sale, and NI will lose their cut. It’s just bad for everyone involved.