Smart way to update Kontakt?

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Is there a clever way to update Kontakt? I seem to remember when I went to contact 7 and unstalled Kontakt 6 first that my Studio One songs complained and I had to fix it myself. So this time, I installed Kontakt 8, then in every Studio One song I saved my Kontakt 7 preset with a new name. Than opened it in Kontakt 8. This works but it's a bit silly because most of my presets are just standard presets with a couple of tweaks here and there and in any other VSI(i) I would just save it as a Studio One preset, but I can't do this because Kontakt 7 is a different VSTi from Kontakt 8.

I'm sure it's me. Please tell me there is a better way.

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  • DunedinDragon
    DunedinDragon Member Posts: 1,006 Guru
    edited November 2024

    That shouldn't be a problem. The organization and structure of the VSTs changed between 6 and 7 to enable new functionality and industry consistency, so going forward everything should work fine. I didn't do anything when I went to Kontakt 8 and everything is still in place and working great in both 7 and 8.

  • PoorFellow
    PoorFellow Moderator Posts: 5,464 mod
    edited November 2024 Answer ✓
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/39124/smart-way-to-update-kontakt

    Quote Matthew_NI , September 25 :
    The migration method is available for any VST host to implement, as part of the VST SDKs offered by Steinberg. I know at least Cubase and Nuendo make use of it.So , if your DAW can not do this then it is because that the maker of the DAW has not implemented it.

    Ref. : Notes about Auto-Migration of Kontakt Versions in DAW Projects

    IMPORTANT: Auto-migration only works with the latest versions of Cubase 12 (and higher), Nuendo 12 (and higher), Logic Pro 10.8 (and higher), Pro Tools 12.3 (and higher) and Maschine 2.16.0 (and higher). Do not try to perform the auto-migration on other DAWs! And do not perform auto-migration if you are still working on your project!

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