Komplete Kontrol 2.9.3 - Failure to recall instrument and settings in DAW after saving project

Thanks, Uwe.

Please find attached the .cpr file per your request.

There are four instances of KK with instruments loaded on each instrument track.

See the Notepad for each instrument track where I've put the details.

On this .cpr file, all the instruments load, but there is no sound output from KK to the DAW. I can see the instrument playing and responding to MIDI input (when the Edit View is visible with the keyboard), and the VST instrument is showing a signal output in Kontakt meter on the upper right, but there is NO audio output to the DAW.

This behavior is probably important for the developer team: I can hear the preview sounds for each KK instrument when scrolling through the library sound bank on the left. Preview audio is being passing to the DAW, but as soon as I select a patch to load into the VST instance of KK, no sound is passed to the DAW, that is, no track audio is output in Cubase, even though I see the graphical audio meters responding to MIDI input in the KK VST instrument. The behavior leads me to believe the path of preview audio (that passed directly to Stereo Out) and the path of the VST instrument audio (Channel, then Stereo Out), is being treated differently by KK 2.9.3. One passes to audio via Stereo Out, the other on the KK instrument channel does not. Your development team should know what is going on here.

My standalone KK 2.9.3 has the same issue (using the Komplete Audio 2 interface with the latest 5.22.0 driver), preview sounds are passed directly to the audio output, but loaded VST patches in KK fail to produce any output sound to reach the audio driver.

On previously saved Cubase projects, created before KK 2.9.3, when the file is opened, the VST instrument in KK is still not loaded and all preset information is gone/missing/not saved. My attempt to create a new project with imported the project data still runs into the same problem with KK 2.9.3 as above - no audio from any of the KK instance to the DAW.

My entire studio production is on standby until this problem is solved. I cannot open previously saved projects with any NI KK instances and I cannot create any new projects with KK. As with Toscagz, it appears KK 2.9.3 has effectively bricked our production work. Please escalate this to your development team (and have them reach out their Steinberg liaison) to see what changed in KK 2.9.3 to cause this. I'd like not to wipe my operating system and reinstall everything from scratch, but this may my next step.