Why no mouse wheel inside Kontakt instruments?

ProfessorChaos

I just can't understand this. So many great instruments inside Kontakt, like the guitars, Lores, and now Fables, another amazing hybrid instrument with beautiful pads. NI has hit a home run with all these hybrid instruments, Ashlight, Arkhis, Lores and so many more.

But besides the fact that looking at their GUIs is always eye straining because they may be larger than your typical old fashioned Kontakt instrument, but even if you zoom the whole Kontakt GUI, the text is blurry as hell. Same for the guitars and others.

But even worse, you have a ton of presets in a list, but you can't use the mouse wheel, at least not in macOS. Wouldn't surprise me if you can in Windows, because macOS always gets the second class citizen treatment from all software developers, but in Kontakt under macOS, you can't. Of course it works if you want to scroll between instruments, if you loaded more than one, but anything inside the instrument, nothing.

So you want to listen to all the presets in a library like Fables, and you are forced to scroll by clicking and dragging a tiny scroll bar:

And it doesn't even scroll in a smooth way, or at least progressively as you move it. It works like a page up/down kind of thing, at one point it goes to the next page.

Native Instruments, do you think this is right, in almost 2024? Come on!!

Paule

No it isn't a second class treatment.

IMHO Mac produced too many OS in short time.

So the issue is in your OS system?

Kymeia

I don’t think this is a Mac vs Win thing, afaik many Kontakt libraries lack mouse wheel support, not sure why, but I guess it may be related to NI expecting more people to interact with them using controllers than mouse wheel (in my case that is certainly true)

ProfessorChaos

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/103938#Comment_103938

Sure, the problem is in macOS, an OS vastly superior to Windows.

Apple releases a new major version of macOS every year, Microsoft does about the same. You think that because they don’t increase the number at the end it’s not a major OS revision?

ProfessorChaos

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/104000#Comment_104000

How do you scroll the list of presets inside Kontakt instruments when using Kontakt?

Besides, it would be really annoying to have to move my hand to a controller rather than just scrolling the wheel.