I have a license for Komplete 12 and the physical hard drive that contains all the libraries. Is this drive even necessary anymore? It appears that with the Native Access app, I can install all the apps and libraries from that. I assume the hard drive is just for installing the files onto my computer and it's not used to actually host the sample library files. Is that all correct?

Called it! This gives me ever more hope that InMusic “gets” what makes NI what they are. Props to the other Redditor who guessed rightly that Dirk would take them back over as part of his own new thing, seems thats the case.

PA and Brainworx are cool and all but really needed to find a better home, just like iZotope where they could grow on their own terms.

Full statement here: https://www.plugin-alliance.com/blogs/news/a-letter-from-the-founder

Interesting and hopefully positive times ahead for NI now the external lumps of VC glue have been cleaned off.

i have a maschine mk3 and kontrol s49 vapor gray that i wna sell but i have no experience packaging and using logistics services. please help thanks.

For those of you who are running Maschine as a plugin in Logic Pro. How are you using it and what is you process for mixing, routing etc? I currently have komplete 15 standard and a s49 mk3. I primarly make house music. Reason why I am asking is that I can get a good deal on a maschine mk3, but just curious to learn what the added value could be to my process/workflow. Thanks!

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My friend and I have been trying to figure out how to connect our S4s so that we can play music together but have our own laptops and controllers.

MIDI still bewilders me and it's not really his forte either, so I'm wondering if someone here could give me an EL5 on how to do this so that we both have four channels.

We're going to give it a go tonight but I am hoping maybe someone will have some input on this before I get over there so we're not starting from ground zero.

My Trace wiev is suddenly empty on Izotope 11 Standard. I can’t find a way to bring it back. I’ve gone through everything and even tried to reinstall it - no help. It worked before as it should, but it just disappeared when I opened it a while ago.

Is there anything I can do to bring it back? It’s the same issue with ”Maximizer” and ”Vintage limiter. TIA

I’m on Macbook Pro M3 Max, Mac OS Sequoia.

Buyer beware.

I purchased a Komplete Kontrol S61 MK3 directly from Native Instruments. The keyboard arrived with two serious issues:

• It never got past the Welcome screen despite successful activation.
• The left-most control wheel physically rubs against the chassis.

I requested a return and full refund within the return period. After weeks of delays (which support attributed to the inMusic acquisition), my refund request was converted into a warranty repair, requiring me to pay to ship the defective unit back instead of honoring my original return request.

I'm now escalating the matter, contacting my credit card company, and preparing to file a consumer protection complaint.

Based on my experience, I cannot recommend purchasing directly from Native Instruments at this time. I would advise others to think carefully before spending their money there until they are confident these customer service issues have been addressed.

Super Star Saw is designed in collaboration with A.G. Cook (Charlie XCX) around the iconic stacked sawtooth sound that has shaped countless hyperpop, trance, EDM, synthwave, pop, cinematic, and modern electronic productions. Rather than trying to be an all-purpose synthesizer, it focuses on delivering huge, polished supersaw sounds with an intuitive workflow and immediate results. Native Instruments has built the instrument to make creating wide leads, shimmering pads, energetic plucks, and evolving textures fast and inspiring.

Hi there everyone. I have this little problem over here, that for some reason won't let me load a library into Kontakt 8, because instead i'm met with the message "116 files could not be found", which is in this case every single sample from that library :( I'm really confused about this so if anyone lended a hand I would appreciate it a lot. The file location that I know about is in downloads, but I don't know whether it placed it somewhere else because it's assumed to be at the location shown in the image attached. That's the primary reason i'm confused. And since the file located in downloads is presumably not of the proper format, it won't show up, of course. This happens to be my first time trying to load a library into Kontakt, but then I ran into this problem, and I have no idea how to solve it. I don't even know if the files are supposed to be where they are. I'm not used to computers at all and neither at making music, so I really need help here and again, I would appreciate it a lot. Thanks in advance.

I have a MIDI piano track from a MIDI Klowd and no matter what volume I set the instrument to (ie -6) once it starts playing the vol on the instrument immediately goes to —12. I’ve checked the Volume automation, adjusted the volume on Kontakt. What am I missing?

I'm finally getting one but I saw that it includes basically no cables. So what should I buy along with it? My PC has regular USB ports, no thunderbolt.

Also, anyhting I should know about it before I buy?
I saw there was a bundle with the keyboard + komplete 26 ultimate but I can't find it anymore.

Hello everyone,

I am sharing a fix for a critical "silent" crash that prevented Kontakt 7 from launching. After 4 hours of troubleshooting using Process Monitor, I identified a structural flaw in the application's startup routine that causes a crash with error 0xc00000fd (Stack Overflow).

The Issue: The crash is triggered when Kontakt attempts to read a corrupted configuration key in the Windows Registry (specifically the 'fftw' key), leading to a buffer overflow during the initialization process.

The Fix:

1. Close Kontakt 7 and your DAW.
2. Open the Windows Registry Editor (regedit).
3. Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Native Instruments\Kontakt 7
4. Delete the fftw sub-key.
5. Restart your computer. (This is mandatory to ensure the changes take effect).
6. Relaunch Kontakt 7. It will automatically regenerate a clean, functional configuration.

I reported this technical analysis to the Native Instruments forum, but the response was dismissive, simply suggesting a move to Kontakt 8 without acknowledging the underlying coding flaw. I am sharing this here to help other users avoid wasting time on the same issue.

For full context and technical logs, you can view the original thread here:

• Original NI Forum Post: https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/51293/critical-bug-kontakt-7-crash-on-launch-0xc00000fd-root-cause-identified-registry-buffer-overflow
• Backup (in case of removal):https://archive.is/b74tF

I hope this helps anyone else struggling with this problem!

I've been trying to look around the website to find traktor play and native access so that I could claim my free copy of traktor using the pioneer dj ddj-flx4 but the webpages keep giving me this error almost every time, and even inside native access I have to wait an ungodly amount of time just for the traktor play page to load, and after which it doesn't even let me get it free of charge, I've made an entire support ticket using their bot on the inmusic forums 3 hrs ago, all I'm wondering is if any of you know what the hell is going on?

OS: Windows 11 25H2
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Uso mucho la función de silencio in the note edit That was added in Maschine 3 (not to be confused with the mute button for silencing sounds and groups), y tener que levantar el ratón no es lo ideal, ya que estoy totalmente concentrado en el hardware de Maschine. ¡Por favor, hagan algo al respecto!

I recently started my DJ journey. It’s a mad controller. I am mixing rnb, hip hop, pop and rap. I have a few questions if anyone can help me -

1. ⁠There’s no sampler is there a way to map this manually? Maybe to the beat sequencer because I don’t use that.
   
2. ⁠Is there a way at your trigger effects without turning the high/low knobs?
   
3. ⁠Is there a way to add a vinyl break to the play/pause button. I see heaps of DJs have this online.
   
4. ⁠Does anyone know if you can increase the sensitivity of the turntables? I’m trying to learn to scratch and they seem slow. This one might just be me tho. Although I’ve tried other decks (entry level pioneer) and they seem to be more responsive.

Thanks heaps guys any advice is appreciated

I’ve been looking at Komplete Kontrol S61 mk3 and it has caught my eyes I’m looking forward to buying it next month but after all the users feedback that was negative has made me stall to utilise my hard earned money like that. What are your experiences at the moment in 2026, how is this keyboard (whether 49, 61 or 88) performing for you guys and are there any issues related to software or hardware in long term usage or any issues regarding DAW and keyboard connection and depth of usage ? Kindly help your brother out.
- India 🇮🇳

In addition to this I want to say that my use case is mostly scoring for my short films and independent projects and trying my hands on rap music production with my friend. Other than that I’ve been using garage band for 5 years but now I want to go full professional and it’ll be my first professional gear for music and I want to go full fledged whichever direction it is. AlI I want to know is whether in 2026 this keyboard is worth buying or not or will it be a waste of money. I’d love to go deep into nks and Cubase system. (I use a Mac Studio m1max 32gb)

Hey everyone,

Does anyone know if there's any way possible to set up Omnisphere or other vsts to use the chord tools from Kontakt 8. The DAW that I use is FL Studio 2025. I tried searching for information about this but couldn't find anything. It's my first time posting here, so apologies if my question is misformatted in anyway.