Kontakt 7.8.1 Incompatibility Notice (macOS)

• Mar 15, 2024 - 15:58

Hi everyone,

If you're on macOS and you use the audio plugins Kontakt or Kontakt Player by Native Instruments, we advise that you do not update these plugins to version 7.8.1, as this version is known to crash MuseScore 4 on macOS.

We believe the crash is caused by an incompatibility in the Qt libraries both applications use to render user interfaces. We’re in touch with developers at Native Instruments, and they are preparing an update for Kontakt and Kontakt Player that may resolve the problem.

We'll update this post when we have more information.

Many thanks,
MuseScore Team

Comments

Apprisco

• Mar 16, 2024 - 12:44

Is this true for Windows 11 as well? Unable to load kontakt portable for some reason.
Edit: it just takes MSCZ 15 minutes to boot up an instance of kontakt for the first time.
Any ideas why?

scorster

• Mar 16, 2024 - 19:55

@Shoogle

Thanks for posting this! Hopefully Native Instruments' next Kontakt/Player revision will clear the way.

Here's the Github issue for anyone interested in following or commenting:

MuseScore 4 Application crashes when opening up Kontakt VST (Kontakt 7.8.1, Mac only) #21372

mcz0998

• Apr 27, 2024 - 23:28

I am new to using both musescore (freshly downloaded and up to date) and Kontakt however this seems like it is still happening (at least to me) on version 7.10.1. If any solution has been found I would really love to know. I tried looking through the github info but I am struggling to make sense of it at a new user.

Any help or advice would be appreciated