“KK plugin” Not the .adg Rack works well other than focus?

I recently read, I think it was in the Support area that Ableton changed something in 10.0.6. It said there was no need to load a plugin rack (.adg) and that the plugin alone should work. I have no idea how reliable the source was so I just tried it. On a Mac and for the hell of it I loaded the KK plug, not the KK Rack. Every KK feature worked. The only issue was not staying in focus (The upper KK keyboard icon) No crash took place, you just have to keep hitting the keyboard icon. Perhaps NI is trying to fix the wrong thing. I don't know much about these things but at this point who the hell does..

 

On Mac..
When I say every feature I mean every feature of KK plug works with out the rack.The mixer the metronome, browser, program selection, track selection, tempo, all of it the whole shooting match including Maschine control features. I don’t know why NI don’t just repair KK plugin focus. We will then be able to load the plug-in without the rack and all the nonsense. Sorry for the rant it’s only out of frustration. I’m sure they have their reasons for having to use the rack?

 

Hi Louis,

You are correct - the Instrument Rack .adg is only required for Automatic Plug-in Focus (aka 'focus follow') - all other plug-in features work as you'd expect. Enabling focus follow without the Instrument Rack is not trivial, but we are working with Ableton to remove the need for the Instrument Rack and manual setup process.

Best,
Adil

 

Thank you Adil for the reply and the heads up. This will be a great move forward for KK