What happened to the wrench button from Kontakt 6?

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DDmUSA
DDmUSA Member Posts: 29 Member
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In Kontakt 6, I recall having a wrench button that offered many options under the hood for an instrument... the MIDI mapping editor, insert and send effects, to name a few.

Where is this stuff in Kontakt 7?

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  • Monochrome
    Monochrome Member Posts: 1,153 Expert
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    Like Kymeia said, seeing the wrench button or not depends entirely on the library itself. You can edit libraries in Kontakt 7, but it's up to the library if the Edit Mode is available for it or not.

    For example, I can see the wrench button for these libraries in Kontakt 7.6.1:

    Spotlight Collection : East Asia

    k7-example-1.png

    Playbox

    k7-example-2.png

    On the other hand, libraries such as Glaze, Hybrid Keys, Hypha, Cloud Supply, Melted Vibes, Lo-Fi Glow and others cant be edited that deep.

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  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,863 mod
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    It’s still there - it just doesn’t show for all libraries - certainly there for new instruments and libraries like the Light Trilogy and Piano Colors

  • DDmUSA
    DDmUSA Member Posts: 29 Member
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    I tried searching for Trilogy and Piano Colors. I didn't see them.

  • DDmUSA
    DDmUSA Member Posts: 29 Member
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    I launched Native Access, and I do see that Piano Colors is available to be installed.

    Are you telling me that some libraries do cause a wrench button to appear in Kontakt 7?

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,863 mod
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/135668#Comment_135668

    The Light Trilogy is Pharlight, Ashlight and Straylight

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,863 mod
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/135669#Comment_135669

    It's more the other way round, the wrench icon is there by default and there for new instruments so you can build stuff in Kontakt, but some more recent libraries are not available for editing, mainly it seems because there are things in them that are not user editable (eg based on new technologies that are not yet accessible in Kontakt except to developers).

  • DDmUSA
    DDmUSA Member Posts: 29 Member
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    But no wrench button in Kontakt 7.

  • Monochrome
    Monochrome Member Posts: 1,153 Expert
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    Like Kymeia said, seeing the wrench button or not depends entirely on the library itself. You can edit libraries in Kontakt 7, but it's up to the library if the Edit Mode is available for it or not.

    For example, I can see the wrench button for these libraries in Kontakt 7.6.1:

    Spotlight Collection : East Asia

    k7-example-1.png

    Playbox

    k7-example-2.png

    On the other hand, libraries such as Glaze, Hybrid Keys, Hypha, Cloud Supply, Melted Vibes, Lo-Fi Glow and others cant be edited that deep.

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,863 mod
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/135728#Comment_135728

    As we said, Kontakt 7 still has the wrench button, it's just not available for all libraries - afaik this was also the case to an extent in Kontakt 6 that occasionally a developer would lock a library for editing (maybe for copyright reasons) and even some Reaktor ensembles are locked that way, but it is more common in Kontakt 7 libraries mainly because many are now so complex under the hood and use graphics libraries not yet available to users that opening them up would end up breaking stuff.

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