Or maybe they took a sniff and said, 'pass', who knows. Maybe they already have, and were rebuffed. But I recognize that it's a beast, even if I prefer to use a simpler solution like EXS.įor a while there I was predicting / hoping that Apple would roll up to NI headquarters with a trainload of cash and pull a Camel Audio, leaving Win users out in the cold and perhaps convincing some portion of them to switch to Mac just to continue having access to their Kontakt libraries. Hahah yeah perfect timing indeed! As much as it sounds like I'm defending Kontakt or trying to make a good case for its survival, I'm trying to think of it from NI's perspective, and whether or not THEY think it's worth the hassle of keeping it current and viable - not whether we (the old farts who still reminisce about Akai S-1000's and SyQuest drives) or the young guns (who don't give a crap about user sampling and just want to make beats using LoopCloud or Arcade) think it's viable.Īs I have stated ad nauseam, it's EXS24 / Sampler that does 99% of the heavy lifting for me, and I barely even use Kontakt except as a portal to buying+exporting WAVs for use in EXS, or as a way to access locked-down legato-transition libraries. That way you can be assured of having access to a whole bunch of working software that hasn't just been upgraded to M1. In the meantime though, if you are really looking at having the most compatibility of software for your computer hardware across brands, My personal recommendation would be to go for a previous gen - Intel Mac (used/new). I cannot guarantee when a release is imminent but we (at NI) are very well aware of it's significance to our end users. M1 is the next challenge and although this may not work out according to your expected timelines, it is in the works. Our first challenge was BigSur compatibility and we have managed to solve that fairly well.

It's not just us, a whole host of developers across the industry have had to handle the M1 transition, and it's a tough one. seems to have taken a good stab at that already!Īs for M1 compatibility and more clarity around that - This one's on Apple. Click to expand.Hey Vik, I'm afraid I can't comment on the Read/Write speeds and the rest of those technical aspects.

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