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Hey guys having a problem w/ an upgrade to an i5 imac trying to get Native Instruments to play nice - here's the issue:

 

My previous setup:

Macbook pro 2.2 santa rosa, 4gb, 500gb 7200 seagate momentus, OSX 10.5.8, Logic 8.02 & Komplete 5 (updated around June 2009), MOTU Ultralite, 2 FW800 2.5" drives in enclosures (project drive+ library drive)

 

Everything was working great until I started getting kernel panics pretty regularly, and graphic glitches where the screen would start flashing green & pink vertical bars. Mouse was responsive but couldn't click anything. It started doing this - a few times here a few times there, but then it started doing it regularly after a few hours (sometimes minutes) of use. After some research, I'm starting to think that it's a defective logic board & video card (there have been some issues w/ the Geforce 8600M GT), so I pick up a 27" imac since I'm on a deadline....

 

My new setup:

27" iMac 2.66 i5, 4gb, 1tb, OSX 10.6.2, Logic 8.02 & Komplete 5, MOTU Ultralite, 2 FW800 2.5" drives in enclosures (projects + libraries) daisy chained through the Ultralite (no more fw400).

 

I reinstall 8.0.2 on 10.6.2 on the imac, Komplete 5 with updates from NI service centre. I've also saved my logic settings \\library\Application support\Logic from my previous system so I put them back. AU manager says everything is ok, Kontakt/Battery open my libraries perfectly after pointing them in the direction of my library FW drive.

 

When I open a Logic template that previously worked on the MBP, it now says

 

"Logic Pro: Plug-in "Guitar Rig" not available!

"Logic Pro: Plug-in "Kontakt 3" not available!

 

and if i open a previous project that has Battery in it, it says

"Logic Pro: Plug-in "Battery" not available!

 

My guess is that it has something to do with the version numbers being different, but It's not like I jumped from Guitar Rig 2 to 3! my current version for guitar rig is 3.2.1.004, Kontakt is 3.5.0.025, Battery 3.0.6.002

 

basically all my NI instruments are not being found in my projects. I can manually replace each missing instrument...and then choose the patch that it was before (and it works fine), but i definitely don't want to do that with all my projects!!!!

 

I've included a screenshot - any help would be appreciated...I just want to be able to open all my projects and have them work the same as when they were on my mbp.

 

Thanks!

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Starting in standalone doesn't help at all...that was one of the first things I tried doing. No luck...

 

An interesting thing to note, I've opened a project that has Izotope Ozone on it and the insert shows Vinyl w/ a line through it. In this case, it makes sense as I haven't reinstalled that plugin yet. I don't get why NI programs are behaving the same way since they're installed properly and I can open them with no problem....

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Sorry vdv09, I guess I read too fast or as soon as I read 10.6.2 assumed Logic 9.

 

I was able to recreate your problem by saving a project in 10.5.8 in Logic 8.0.2 with Guitar Rig 4 after tweaking and adding extra modules to a "factory patch".

I then opened this project in 8.0.2 from my 10.6.2 external "playground" drive and I get the same warning you're getting.

This is a tough one. I tried some things but they didn't work. I'm out of ideas at the moment....

 

J.

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Thanks for trying that out...so at least it can be recreated. It may have something to do w/ 10.6.2. then? I would try to install Leopard, but apparently these new imacs can't have an os # less than 10.6. I'm out of ideas too now?...

 

Anyway, thanks for your help Jordito. Much appreciated

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Actually, I think it might just be a native instruments thing after all.

The test I did last night...I just realized I loaded version 3 in Leopard and version 4 in SL :roll:. Now I did a test and made sure the versions matched and the project I created in Leopard now loads just fine in Snow Leopard...settings and all. Maybe if you make sure that the versions match exactly you could get it to work. Unfortunately, I still can't say for sure though.

 

J.

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