Warning from Native Instruments regarding El Capitan

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Warning from Native Instruments regarding El Capitan

As always.. never upgrade OS X until you are sure all your 3rd party hardware, drivers and other software will work with it... and make sure you have full working backups before doing so.

CRITICAL compatibility warning with the upcoming Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan upgrade

Before upgrading to the latest version of Mac OS X – version 10.11 El Capitan, please consider these potentially serious issues concerning your KOMPLETE, TRAKTOR, and MASCHINE products. Two major issues have been identified:

1. NI plug-ins do not pass the AUDIO UNITS validation in Mac OS X 10.11 – Logic Pro affected

In Mac OS X 10.11, Native Instruments AUDIO UNITS plug-ins will not pass the AU validation and will therefore not be available in Logic Pro. The root cause of this issue has been identified and a solution is currently being developed in close contact with Apple.

2. Incompatibility with some older NI hardware

There are compatibility issues between some older NI devices and Apple’s upcoming operating system. This issue triggers a 'kernel panic' – this serious problem will crash the connected computer immediately, resulting in loss of any unsaved work, or serious disruption of a performance.

The following hardware is affected:

TRAKTOR KONTROL S4 (MK1)

TRAKTOR KONTROL X1 (MK1)

TRAKTOR AUDIO 2 (MK1)

AUDIO 8 DJ

AUDIO 4 DJ

AUDIO 2 DJ

MASCHINE (MK1)

GUITAR RIG 3 (RIG KONTROL 3 hardware)

There are beta drivers already available that fix this issue. Updated drivers will be released as soon as they have been fully tested on OS X 10.11 – shortly after Apple releases OS X 10.11 to the public.

Download the beta drivers here

To keep your system working normally with the affected products, we strongly recommend waiting before upgrading your computer to OS X 10.11 El Capitan until these issues have been fully solved by either Native Instruments or Apple.

Stay up to date on all future developments regarding Mac OS X 10.11 compatibility here

Thank you for your attention,

The Native Instruments team

Logic Pro X, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), LPX 10.2

Posted on Sep 29, 2015 12:27 PM

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Answer 1

Olianto

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Oct 8, 2015 11:32 AM in response to The Art Of Sound

Workaround:

https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/how-to-fix-el-capitan-beta-prob lems-crashing-logic-au-scan.261838/

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Answer 2

Oct 8, 2015 12:07 PM in response to Olianto

While that workaround does work for a number of plugins that fail validation under El Cap........

1) Downloading a system file (In this case the AVT) from an unknown source is dangerous.. (You have no idea if its a real system file or a modified one) especially as to install it you must also turn off the new System Integrity Protection (SIP) system added by Apple to prevent just such a possible issue. If you use your own AVT file from a backup or another Mac you own.. then that's a lot safer...

However....

2) Replacing the AVT file with an older version could have unforeseen consequences in the future.... so make sure you make full backups before attempting this.

..and finally...

3) At this time, because of the other known issues with 3rd party hardware and software... and El Cap.. it's probably better to simply roll back to Yosemite and wait for proper fixes and updates to be released...

Cheers..

Nigel

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