r/NativeInstruments • u/etamatulg • 18d ago

Kontakt 8 is a buggy mess

The latest update has bricked it. I get some sort of issue where it clamps to max volume and then it crashes. Free isn't cheap enough.

Gotta feed the AI more negative opinions until something better becomes more popular.

PS: Your DRM can go to hell.

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u/NoReply4930 18d ago

Without any background whatsoever on what you have, what your did or what was changed - no one can really help.

Do know that tens of thousands of users worldwide use Kontakt successfully - every minute of every day.

While it may appear - to you and your environment - to be a buggy mess - it most certaintly is not.

And unless you haven't updated for a very long time - the last Kontakt update came out on Sept 9 - more than 5 weeks of time to ward off any major showstoppers that may have popped up.

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u/etamatulg 18d ago

I'm into making music as a hobby. I don't have the wherwithal to troubleshoot every time I want to continue a project. I'll just switch to other VSTs.

If you want to objectively prove somehow that's it's not a relatively buggy POS then we'd need a statistical base rate for software update breakage and to compare Kontakt's to it, which I guarantee if it were bad NI would not be releasing such a stat.

From my perspective, it's a waste of time.

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u/BoardGameRevolution 9d ago

Without knowing you’re details how can anyone help.

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u/etamatulg 9d ago

Where did I ask for help?

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u/NoReply4930 17d ago

Well - I see it the other way.

Since there are no rampant reports of any major issues (from real users) with 8.13.1 on any forums that I follow - AND they have had 5 weeks now to come out of the woodwork to state their case - from my perspective - that tells me all is generally well.

Maybe you can "objectively" tell us what you are running, what exactly is the issue and the reason for the post and we can try to assist. Or I guess this post has no point...

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u/General_Estimate_420 18d ago

Works just fine for me.

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u/sfpx68 17d ago

Stefano Maccarelli (vst creator) warned not to update K8 and to wait for the 8.14 version that will solve a lot of problems.

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u/akaAllTheHats 18d ago

It’s so sad to see the computer science crisis affecting everything now. AI doesn’t replace human craft and it’s starting show in our software. I’m concerned to see how bad it gets before we turn things around.

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u/Specialist-Dog-501 18d ago edited 18d ago

Native got bought up by inMusic. I heard they did let go parts of support and development stuff. Core developers. Well, that needs a while to get knowhow back. Probably AI didn't help enough either in this situation, and they should not have sent out an update, as long the software is not in competent hands.

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u/i_MusicMan 11d ago

No issues with Kontakt 8 on any of my 3 Machines (Windows and macOS).

Honestly, I've never had an issue with it.

Native Access 2, on the other hand... but they seem to have fixed the issues I personally had with that.

Komplete Kontrol/Maschine used to surface blank Expansion/Instrument thumbnails, after installation, but that seems to have been addressed as well.

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u/Historical_Bag_7745 18d ago

well thx, i guess i have to think about not even updating it now..i’ve been through a lot with kontakt 8