NKS User Library

Sunborn · January 2023

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/50148#Comment_50148

How we can clarify this? It would be great to get rid of few hundred double folders and images! Someone of the NI crew here maybe?

Diam · January 2023

Indeed. Tbh, as it was a fixture I have made use of it and designed certain graphics to utilise this, however now that appears to be pretty useless, so it would help to get some clarity from the NI team.

Kymeia · January 2023

I guess we should just test this experimentally, which is the way we figured most of this out in the first place when this thread started on the old forum - at the moment I'm seeing if we really need .meta files as they seem to make no difference that I can see

Sunborn · January 2023

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/50172#Comment_50172

i think the real wasting space is, if we really need 4 folders for each plugin (2 database + 2 image folders), such as u-he/zebra and zebra and why not just one vendor folder (u-he) and all the plugins subfolders inside, and that's it... as far as i know, the one is for KK and the other is for Maschine, right?

Diam · January 2023

I agree. They may as well have just made another file name for Maschine images if need be and placed them all in in a universal folder. “One folder to rule them all and in music production bind them!“ :D

Kymeia · January 2023

No nothing to do with Maschine - both KK and Mas use the same resources - the second one under the plugin name was so stuff shows also on the right hand screen but I just experimentally removed one and the images show on both screens now so I guess NI at some point addressed that but we were not aware of it :)

So let's continue to try making these with just the one folder under vender and also without .meta files - also I think the short name.json is way outdated and doesn't cover newer products

Diam · January 2023

@Kymeia It appears the user community is the safest bet for identifying changes and fixing issues after new implementations. It was Jason over at freelance soundlabs, who enabled me to get my user NKS back into my factory tab, after NI removed the sounds.com support. I am super grateful for your support in starting this thread also, not to mention the many contributors, @Sunborn @Vagus @Mercury @Christos Adamos @JesterMgee to name a few. Thank you for the continued support.

Kymeia · January 2023

No problem - that's what this thread is for - many minds are better than one :)

Kymeia · January 2023

Now we have accumulated a huge amount of VST3 NKS templates and conversions I plan to do a reorganisation of the NKS User Library this weekend if I have time. It will mean older links no longer work but on the other hand everything will hopefully be more easy to browse - the VST3 folder is getting too big so I plan to divide it into sub categories and also relegate the older VST2 NKS banks to their own folder as well to make the VST3 more prominent.

I'd also like to integrate the stuff people have uploaded into their own folders into one central place if that's OK with everyone? - we'll keep those folders for further uploads though.