Hi!
When upgrading from Ableton Live 11 to 12.2.5, Kontakt 7.10.5 started opening with a black screen (both in VST3 and AU). But Kontakt opens perfectly in Bitwig, Digital Performer, and as Kontakt standalone.
Any help? Thank you very much.
(Mac M1 OS Monterey)

 

I give no guarantee whether this will work:

black screen kontakt 7
https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/19657/black-screen-kontakt-7/p1?tab=accepted
https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/8799/black-screen-kontakt-7?tab=accepted
https://support.native-instruments....17015665053-Kontakt-Opens-with-a-Black-Window

Ableton Live 12 keeps crashing with NI / Kontakt 7
https://community.native-instrument...n-live-12-keeps-crashing-with-ni-kontakt-7/p1

 

Last edited: Oct 17, 2025

Thank you very much for your response!.
Anyway, the first three links refer to problems with Windows, not Mac. And the Mac one (fourth link) is a different case.
I read that the problem with black screen could be the graphics card, but if Kontakt opens perfectly as standalone, and within Bitwig and DP, I rule out this diagnosis.
The problem for me is some kind of incompatibility between Kontakt 7 and Ableton Live 12 that no one can tell me what it is, because with Live 11, Kontakt 7 opened ok...

 

No one knows what Ableton has changed. Updates are usually meant to make the system run more smoothly and error-free, not create new problems. The catch with the graphics card is that if you haven't changed anything yourself beforehand, but have only performed the Ableton update, it's easy to conclude that Ableton has made errors in conjunction with macOS.

I would undo the update and wait until Ableton releases a stable update. If you want, you can describe your problem in the Ableton forum, cracked Ableton just doesn't have support!!!

 

Honestly, I've been very interested in a couple of new tools that Live introduced in version 12, Scales and Tunings... I'm not interested in the other new features. That's why I installed this version and don't feel like downgrading to version 11.
Anyway, from what I've read, you can have both versions installed, 11 and 12. Maybe I'll go for that...