Spitfire Audio
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Many Libraries incompatible with MAC
WARNING! Many of the Spitfire Libraries are not compatible with macOS >13 and/or Apple Silicon under Native Instruments KOMPLETE KONTROL. Newer ones are also affected while many older libs are still running. For example: Colossus, Aperture 3, BDT Brass & Reeds, Fractured Strings, Heirloom, Originals Intimate Grand Piano, Wurli, Polaris. Error Message in Native Instruments KK: "Loading Issue … could not be loaded, as it may not yet support Apple Silicon or VST2 to VST3 migration. Please contact the plugin-in manufacturer for more information." There is a trick to get some of the affected libraries to work anyway (do not open the VSTi-Sound via the KK browser menu), but it is not very user-friendly. macOS 14 was released in 2023! This is very embarrassing. I don't know of any VSTi manufacturer that seems to have such great difficulty making their libraries compatible. You can find this information on the homepage in the product descriptions. But that doesn't help if you're upgrading to fairly up-to-date hardware and already own the products. Spitfire plugins cannot be resold. I haven't experienced such problems with any other plugin manufacturer. I don't have the impression that Spitfire will change anything about this. The sales have already been made. Customer support is particularly low-priority there.