Monday, July 23, 2012

Native Instruments' Official Announcement Regarding USB 3.0 Macbook Pro Compatibility!

From the Native Instruments Website:

They have just released an official statement regarding the whole 2012 Macbook Pro USB 3.0 compatibility





According to the announcement, if you own the S2/ Audio6 / Audio10 interfaces and you happen to own the new 2012 Macbook Pro series with USB 3.0 ports...

You Are Safe!

If not, There is always a kext hack tool to swap back your usb 3.0 drives downgrading them into USB 2.0, you will lose speed, but gain compatiblity - your choice!

Oh and by the way, the long awaited Traktor 2.5.1 Update is out today!!! 


DOWNLOAD IT NOW From your Native Instruments Service Centre!!


And now here below is what NI has to say about their whole usb 3.0 compatibility...


MAC OS X COMPATIBILITY INFO




OS X and USB 3.0

This note provides information about the compatibility of Native Instruments hardware products with USB 3.0 ports on current-generation MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models. This page was last updated on July 20, 2012.

Native Instruments has conducted compatibility tests with its hardware products connected to USB 3.0 ports of current-generation MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models. Some NI products are experiencing a degraded audio signal caused by USB 3.0 audio driver issues present in recent versions of OS X.

The following products have shown to be affected:

AUDIO 2 DJ / AUDIO 4 DJ / AUDIO 8 DJ
AUDIO KONTROL 1
GUITAR RIG MOBILE
GUITAR RIG SESSION
KORE 1
RIG KONTROL 2 / RIG KONTROL 3
TRAKTOR AUDIO 2
TRAKTOR KONTROL S4


The following products have shown to be fully compatible:

KOMPLETE AUDIO 6
MASCHINE / MASCHINE MIKRO
TRAKTOR AUDIO 6 / TRAKTOR AUDIO 10
TRAKTOR KONTROL S2

NI hardware products without audio interface functionality (KORE 2, TRAKTOR KONTROL F1, TRAKTOR KONTROL X1) have also shown to be fully compatible with the current MacBook Air and MacBook Pro generation.

Native Instruments is currently in contact with Apple in order to find a solution. New information will be provided on this page as it becomes available.

MAC OS X 10.7 COMPATIBILITY

This note provides information about the compatibility of Native Instruments products with the Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" operating system. It was last updated on September 19th, 2011.

All currently available Native Instruments products have been updated for Mac OS X 10.7 compatibility. Additionally, Lion-compatible updates have been released for the previous product generations GUITAR RIG 4 and KONTAKT 4. Please make sure to install all the latest updates for your NI software to guarantee best functionality under Mac OS X 10.7.

Please make sure to also install the latest drivers for all your NI hardware products. Older driver versions might not be fully compatible with Mac OS X 10.7. Here you can find the latest drivers...