I can’t say for sure Metaserver is the problem, but I’m having an issue with trying to save a snapshot of an instrument in Kontakt 8 (as well as a few other 3rd party plugins) and not being able to type in the save as text box.
When I click in the text box and try to type something, Logic does the flashing-screen warning thing. I’ve gone through and quit all my running apps to see if anything changes and the only apps not running to allow me to type in the text box is Metaserver and occasionally Plugsearch.
Would anyone be willing to test this on their system using Metaserver and Plugsearch?
I’m running a mac studio, sequoia 15.7.2, logic 11.2.2, kontakt 8.7.2, metaserver 5.3.3, plugsearch 4.2 b70.
MetaServer does use a keyboard shortcut listener, and on macOS this can sometimes activate the system’s Secure Input mode. Secure Input is a macOS-level protection mechanism — when it gets stuck in the wrong process (usually due to a macOS bug), text fields in other apps like Logic or Kontakt stop accepting keyboard input and flash the screen instead. That’s why quitting MetaServer immediately solves it: macOS releases Secure Input when the process exits.
There is no code in MetaServer that blocks typing, but the secure input state controlled by macOS can behave incorrectly, especially on Sequoia. If you can reproduce the issue, please run this command in Terminal and send the output:
sudo lsof | grep “Secure Input”
This tells us which app macOS believes is holding secure typing focus.
Also please try starting Logic first, then Kontakt, then MetaServer, and let us know if that changes the behavior.
Thank you for the reply and detailing this issue with “secure input.” I tested everything you described and none of it worked unfortunately. However, I cloned my system drive and then updated to Tahoe and everything works properly. So it seems Sequoia is the cause of this.