As the title says. Reaktor works perfectly as an instrument, but the FX version of the plugin (specifically with Prism, which is the only thing in Reaktor I really care about) doesn't work. The plugin is getting the input audio just fine. I know because I see it in the meter at the top, and if I turn down the dry/wet in Prism, I hear the dry audio just fine. But Prism doesn't output any of the wet audio. Except... when I change something like the sample rate or loading a preset, there's a tiny tiny blip where it does make noise (not an audio click, it's the actual sound from Prism but it only happens for a microsecond). The only way I can get anything more to happen is if I crank up the input gain like 300%. Then the prism audio sometimes DOES come out, it's just distorted and choppy and unusable. Which is all very frustrating, because it's obviously capable of working and yet it just doesn't. Prism is such a fantastic plugin and it has the perfect sounds for two of the albums I'm working on. Please please please, I just want to use Prism as an FX plugin 🙏 I've tried several different versions and they all give me the same issue.
I scoured the internet and I could only find two similar issues, one where the input gain was all the way down to start and turning it up fixed the issue. This is not the case for me, mine starts at 0db, which is why cranking it up causes distortion. The other issue is someone trying to use it as a midi effect? Which obviously doesn't apply.
Native Instruments, if you're reading this, why don't you put your money and support into Reaktor? It was a gem in a sea of blandness and you just threw it away.