How to tell if 3rd party instruments are Intel or Apple Silicon? - Part 2
tl;dr - I still don't know how to tell the ISA for these instruments
In my initial post I got 2 answers, but for some unknown reason I cannot reply to those in my original thread, hence this new thread. Note I can reply in another thread I made about not being able to reply :-)
One reply referred me to the PlugInfo app, which I already have. It is a great app, but it only works on top level plug-ins, like Kontakt 8. While Kontakt 8 is not only a plug-in but a host for various Native Instrument and 3rd party instruments, unfortunately PlugInfo does not analyze those.
The other reply I'll quote (quote also does not work in my original thread):
"By third party instruments do you mean the actual players like Kontakt/Reaktor or the Kontakt/Maschine instrument libraries like pianos, strings and other expansions? On the whole the expansions are independent of the plugins that run them so will work on both Intel and Silicon based Macs."
My answer:
By 3rd party instrument I mean e.g. Scarbee Classic EP-88 - these are listed in Native Access and Kompakt 8 under the instruments tab, or menu, so I called them instruments (what you call expansions). Yes instruments are independent from Kontakt, but they must contain executable code, which is either intel, AS, or universal.