Help: Ableton crashes after Kontakt 7 update

kamikade · 2025-06-26T08:02:41+00:00

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I updated Kontakt 7 to the latest version (7.10.7) via Native Access (no Upgrade to Kontakt 8!) because I wanted to load a patch which required a newer version.
Now Ableton projects containing an instance of Kontakt 7 crash at start up, which is a nightmare. I worked on several projects until yesterday and they won't load.
I've used Kontakt 7 with the Empire Breaks Library (and maybe one or two more) and I've also updated all Kontakt Libraries/Expansions via Native Access but that didn't solve the problem.
I'm on the latest Ableton 12.2 and Mac OS 13.7.3

Any ideas?
Can I downgrade Kontakt to the version before? Not sure what version I was on though…

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Jeremy_NI

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/232204#Comment_232204

Did you apply these steps? Kontakt Crashes

It's very unlikely the problem is a particular version, downgrading does not always make sense.

If after these steps you still have these crashes, get in touch with our support: https://bit.ly/NI_Support_All

My colleagues will need to have a look in your system.

kamikade

thanks for the help.
It tourned out there was another plugin which was causing all the trouble. My fault.
Thanks for your help anyways.

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PoorFellow

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/46195/help-ableton-crashes-after-kontakt-7-update

Your OS , Ventura , should be compatible with the latest version of Kontakt 7.

Kontakt Crashes support page solutions

Also then sometimes it helps to reset the DAWs plugin database and let it rescan but I don't know if that will help you.

I have links for more Kontakt 7 versions if you want to try to downgrade :

Downgrade to Kontakt via the following links :

Mac: Kontakt_7_760_Mac_dmg

KONTAKT 7.8.1 PC & Mac

KONTAKT 7.9.0 Mac ONLY

in case of download problems then try logging in into Google first, if that doesn't help then copy the download to own Google drive before the download.

The above ought to help you circumvent the download limit.

Jeremy_NI

Have you tried to open Kontakt in standalone? Does it crash too?

kamikade

thanks for the replies.

So far nothing has solved the problem though.

I installed older Kontakt versions. Found out that I was on 7.1. before and grabbed that from my timemachine backup. Then the libraries would'nt load anymore with the old Kontakt version. Didn't manage to find the old version of the libraries but installed the most important one from a link here in the forum. But still no luck.
I can open Kontakt 7.1 standalone and it has the Empire Breaks library which is used in the projects which crash.

I also started Ableton in "no third party plugins" mode, removed the kontakt instances and saved as a new project without them. But the project still crash when I try to open them. This is becoming a serious problem.

Jeremy_NI

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/232204#Comment_232204

Did you apply these steps? Kontakt Crashes

It's very unlikely the problem is a particular version, downgrading does not always make sense.

If after these steps you still have these crashes, get in touch with our support: https://bit.ly/NI_Support_All

My colleagues will need to have a look in your system.

kamikade

thanks for the help.
It tourned out there was another plugin which was causing all the trouble. My fault.
Thanks for your help anyways.

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