Hi!
I've made an instrument but I'm having a hard time getting the samples to use relative paths. Everything works fine until I move the instrument (and all samples etc.) to a new location (or a new PC), at which point Kontakt complains that none of the samples could be found, with the absolute paths to the old locations being displayed.
I've tried the following to get this to work, but nothing seems to make a difference:
- Resave the nki with "absolute path" unchecked, this seems to have no effect
- Batch re-save the instrument - this just seems broken in my version of Kontakt (6.7.1), as soon as I click "yes" on the "proceed anyway" dialog that appears, my instrument immediately unloads and nothing happens, unless I've misunderstood the purpose of this
- Resave the nki with "patch + samples" - in this case, the samples do seem to use relative paths but my sample folder structure is lost, which is an issue because I have my samples grouped in subfolders by mic positions and each folder has samples with the same name. So even though all my samples seem to get copied to the new location, the folder structure is completely flattened so most of the samples just overwrite previous ones and I end up with half of them missing
- I've also tried running a lua script in Creator Tools to overwrite all the zone file paths with explicit relative paths, but as soon as I "push" changes back to Kontakt, Creator Tools just reverts all the paths back to displaying absolute paths and there is no effect
At this point I'm very confused and thinking there's either some quirk which isn't well-documented, or a bug in Kontakt 6.7.1. I contacted Native Instruments support and they suggested asking here for help.
Something I've yet to try is manually flattening my samples into one huge folder and renaming them to have completely unique names, but I thought I'd ask here first before committing to renaming 500+ files and adjusting all my region names in Reaper so the samples still export correctly. All I can think is that Kontakt doesn't support samples with the same names even when they are separated into subfolders like so:
Instrument/
instrument.nki
Samples/
Mics/
Front/
sample_0.wav
sample_1.wav
...
Back/
sample_0.wav
sample_1.wav
...