Hello, Double-clicking an instrument used to add an instrument in successive channel order. Now, after the update, the instrument is replaced. I cannot seem to find the setting to change this behavior. Please advise. Thanks.
This is the new intended behavior of Kontakt... BUT, very strong hints being dropped that there will be an option for the old behavior perhaps in version 7.8.
Yes I can confirm this change in behaviour, however if you have more than one instrument in the rack and double click on a new instrument it replaces the last instrument already in the rack - it doesn't touch any previous one - all very confusing behaviour. Changes in behaviour like this make using Kontakt confusing and wastes time trying to find out if it's a bug or 'feature'. After all, N.I encourages putting more than one instrument into the rack rather than multiple racks with single instruments so this change in behaviour leads to confusion.
Please NI, if you are going to change the design of the GUI and functionality of user operations, at least give an option to switch the meaning of them - for example the action of double click and what it does. Or use the widely adopted 'convention' in ICT of different mouse clicks mean eg +/- click means add or remove - as many applications have - just as ctrl click means multiple selection and shift click means a selection range. The point being that people have learnt certain actions to mean certain things from a host of applications that recognise the need for standardisation of what operation to do for each action the user does on keyboard and mouse. When designers redefine the meaning and purpose of mouse and keyboard actions it's counter intuitive and affects productivity.
HERE IS THE SOLUTION
Unfortunately, this does not work. I'm running 7.10.5. The way I like to choose instruments is by sound so I click once to preview and double click to load. Newest selection overwrites previous one even with your solution. Best way I've found to deal with this is to create an empty file first before making new selection. It allows me to add a new instrument, then I need to delete the empty file. This way it still keeps all my instrument selections in the rack. Unbelievable that NI hasn't fixed this problem.
Huh. This absolutely works for me.
It does work if you are in rack view, which is where people often work from if they are building up multis. If you are loading from the new browser (as I guess you are to use previews) you first need to make sure the instrument loading in the rack is not selected by clicking on the empty rack space below, then each instrument is opened below the first one rather than replacing it. It is a bit confusing but the option is there now at least.
