Plug-in Updates Sticky Topic

[corbo-billy]

Native Access just updated in version 3.18.1. _

[James Steele]

Lexicon plugins FINALLY Apple Silicon Native!!!!!!!!!

Hallelujah... it has happened! Harman/Lexicon finally released Apple Silicon native version of their plugins! You have to install via the Flux installer app.

https://lexiconpro.com/en-US/products/p ... -in-bundle

[James Steele]

Kontakt 8.4.0 released today

You can launch Native Access and read about what's new. I'm too tired to try to screen capture the list, covert to text, and then post here. Besides... I post 75% of the posts in this topic anyway and I'm gonna scale back how much effort I put into it. Only so many hours in the day, you know?

I did a full Time Machine backup before updating. It'll be a while before I trust Native Instruments 100% again when it comes to Kontakt updates.

[corbo-billy]

For Kontakt 8.4.0. _

8.4.0 (2025-05-20)
Minimum OS requirements: macOS 13, 14, and 15 (latest update), Windows 10 or 11 (latest Service Pack).

OVERALL CHANGES

ADDED Further analytics for Default vs Classic View usage from opt-in users
FIXED Crash when removing Instrument and switching Pages
FIXED Crash when clicking Activate Demo
FIXED Instrument Sidepane Navigator Volume/Pan unresponsive to automation
FIXED Instrument Sidepane Navigator buttons were stealing Spacebar focus from DAW
FIXED Clicking File/New Leap inadvertently created two Leap instruments
FIXED Minimizing the Instrument Header of small-height instruments made them invisible in Classic View
FIXED Snapshot not highlighted when loading default preset
FIXED Default View rack not displaying instruments when switching from empty page of Classic View
FIXED Clicking Snapshot Previous/Next jumps to first Snapshot after reopening instrument GUI in DAW
FIXED Artwork for Tools, Leap, and some Combined content not displayed in navigator and on hardware

BUILDER CHANGES

ADDED 1960’s tweed era amplifier FX DSP - Reverb Delight from Guitar Rig 7
ADDED KSP: Ability to get the info set via redirect_output() in previous script slots with new event parameters $EVENT_PAR_OUTPUT_TYPE and $EVENT_PAR_OUTPUT_INDEX and returning a new constant $OUTPUT_TYPE_NOT_SPECIFIED if output was not set/detected
ADDED KUI: New ‘Text’ property to fetch $CONTROL_PAR_TEXT for KSPButton, KSPKnob, KSPSwitch and KSPValueEdit
ADDED KUI: Ability to disable automatic closing of Popovers
ADDED KUI: Customizable TextInput component
ADDED KUI: Main thread scripting with Komplete Script (can run even when GUI is not open)
ADDED KUI: Reduced wait times by not re-triggering KUI reloading if reloading is triggered during a reload
FIXED KUI: Changing the visibility of a ui_menu entry in KSP wasn’t reflected in KUI
FIXED KUI: Divide-by-zero corrupts layout without error
FIXED KUI: Modifier inside declarative for/if can cause a cycle detection error
FIXED KUI: Hierarchical order of reactive updates not always respected
FIXED KUI: Feature toggle for experimental features broken

[corbo-billy]

This update includes the following changes:

* Improved audio-UI interoperability, to reduce a chance of audio stutter happening when UI is active.
* Fixed occasional GUI flickering on macOS (due to usage of Device RGB color-space, now it is sRGB).
* Fixed an issue with gain knob's inverse linking.
* Fixed HiDPI VST3 GUI resizing issue in Cubase, on Windows.
* Reduced GUI refresh jitter.
* Made codebase optimizations.

https://www.voxengo.com/product/voxformer/

[monkey man]

Lexicon plugins FINALLY Apple Silicon Native!!!!!!!!!

Hallelujah... it has happened! Harman/Lexicon finally released Apple Silicon native version of their plugins! You have to install via the Flux installer app.

https://lexiconpro.com/en-US/products/p ... -in-bundle

Hallelujah indeed Brother James.

I purposely didn't rush out and buy 'verb plugins in the hope that this would happen one day. Good things come to those who wait.

[monkey man]

You have to install via the Flux installer app.

... which won't even run on my 'puter and the legacy version won't do the Lex plugins, so great.

All I want is to be able to download the actual installers, which based on the video I saw looks like it could be an option in the application's settings.

If there's a trick I'd love to know it. Otherwise I guess I'll sort all this out when I move to AS.

[daniel.sneed]

[...]I purposely didn't rush out and buy 'verb plugins in the hope that this would happen one day. Good things come to those who wait.

I did the opposite ... and nothing came close to my favorite old lexicon verbs.

[mhschmieder]

Updating to macOS 15.5 and the latest Native Access tonight (with appropriate System Settings overrides and reboots) didn't help at all, so after a fruitless AI-driven chat session on NI's site, I was finally allowed to file a support ticket.

Debugging this issue has cost me whatever time I might have been able to allot this week to production work, so I don't have the hours to switch back to Kontakt 7 for the short term. I have to hope that NI responds and can get my library licenses working in K8 on my new box as well as the NA updaters not failing out for unexplained reasons.

I do not have iCloud+ so the much-recommended change to privacy settings does not apply to my phone or my desktop; it is not an available option under iCloud settings, and of course I turn off AI and Siri and other such nonsense.

Hopefully other people are in better shape now after this week's NA and K8 updates, but the bugfix list didn't appear to mention any of the issues people have brought up here.

[monkey man]

[...]I purposely didn't rush out and buy 'verb plugins in the hope that this would happen one day. Good things come to those who wait.

I did the opposite ... and nothing came close to my favorite old lexicon verbs.

Exactly what I knew would happen if I caved.

Ironic timing really 'cause I anticipate upgrading my 13-year-old Mac this year and I'd have had no choice but to look for alternatives, assuming I actually started making music again (last completed projects were 1994).

[daniel.sneed]

Lexicon plugins FINALLY Apple Silicon Native!!!!!!!!!Hallelujah... it has happened! Harman/Lexicon finally released Apple Silicon native version of their plugins! You have to install via the Flux installer app.
https://lexiconpro.com/en-US/products/p ... -in-bundle

Not that much hallelujah, James.
In Europe, LXP price is 358 € and PCM is 599 € (tax included).
Just saying good sales are welcome.