downgrading to Kontakt 5.2.1 prevents Zen from crashing

[Flolab]

Hello and many thanks for this great program.
Just testing Zen for a few days.
I had a lot of crashes in conjuntion with Kontakt 5.3.
After some NI forum search I found that Kontakt 5.3 has many bugs, so I decided to downgrade to Kontakt 5.2 and everything went good.

But be aware of that, the non factory presets have to be reimported into kontakt, because kontakt is stating something simular like "this preset is from a newer version of kontakt".

For me, it's worth to pay this prize for using Zen, because the whole Native Instruments preset system went into a painfull mess, after their decision to drop Kore and rebuilt everything for the use with Maschine.
I'm owning Maschine, but the browser is a toy you can't even tag factory content with.
I believe, it will take years for NI to recover from this wrong decision.
For example, I think the buggy Kontakt 5.3 version is a result of the integration into Maschine process.


Mac Book Pro r OSX 10.8.4 , Ableton Live 9.1

[Big Tick]

Thanks ! I'm glad you like Zen. I haven't had a chance to improve it as much as I wanted for the past few months, but you will see why... after Namm...

'Tick

[Flolab]

So then I'm looking forward to Namm and hoping for stable Zen like product, I can spent some $'s on.

Five minutes after my first post I had a crash again.
Maybe I put Kontakt in solitary confinement for a while.

Best wishes for whatever you're doing!