KK 13 Standard: Many Missing Instruments in DAW Side Pane Library View

Soniclight · 2024-11-28T21:53:38+00:00

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DAW - Cubase Pro 12, will be 14 in a month or so.
OS/C:\ - Windows 10 Home, 64 bit
Location of Most Kontakt Content - D:\

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In the full version Kontakt 7 in Cubase, it shows only a couple dozen or so Kontakt/NI native and 3rd party instruments in the rack Side Pane view.

Looking in Native Access as shown in screenshots above, there are...

152 listings shown in "All" as installed and
84 "Instruments" - which is where my issue is.

The programs for instruments and such are installed on my C:

Application Location:
C:\Program Files\Native Instruments\

VST Location (64 bit):
C:\Program Files\Native Instruments\VSTPlugins 64 bit

Due to space and that I do all my music work on a separate larger SSD (D:\), I have KK content in:

D:== NI CONTENT KOMPLETE\ and
D:== NI OTHER CONTENT\

I do not want to go hunt for every missing instrument through the hard to read Library management directories in Kontakt 7 in my DAW because:

I am almost 70 y.o. and my eyesight sucks - I already have my Windows scaling resolution at 175% (my screenshots show that), but this does not affect/enlarge the font in the Kontakt Files management GUI with white font on gray background.

So...

Why do these all of those 84 instruments not show up in the visual Library Rack Side Pane view as it seems they should?

Yes, I had to do a handful of manual .nki intalls in the Kontakt 7 GUI in Cubase for some 3rd party VSTi to make them show up there, but…

…where are the slew of missing KK-native ones?

For example, isn't Massive a KK-native instrument? As seen in the above "All" and "Instruments" screenshots, it shows "Open" (I assume as a standalone) and it does.

But as so many others, it's nowhere to be found in Kontakt 7's rack view in Cubase.

Sure, I could uninstall and reinstall all of them but that would take probably literally a day or two - some can take 20 minutes EACH @200 Mps for download and reinstall.

But I don't know if that would solve this since NI Access does not show any installation errors.

I'm also concerned because I cannot afford to lose presets for the ones I have used and do use.

Safe and reasonably not too time consuming solution to this?
Thanks.

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Kymeia

“For example, isn't Massive a KK-native instrument? As seen in the above "All" and "Instruments" screenshots, it shows "Open" (I assume as a standalone) and it does.

But as so many others, it's nowhere to be found in Kontakt 7's rack view in Cubase.”

Kontakt will only show Kontakt content- Massive is a plugin. It will show in Komplete Kontrol but can’t be expected to show or load in Kontakt which is a sampler not a plugin host

Check if anything you think is missing from Kontakt is actually a Kontakt instrument and then you might have a clearer idea whether anything is still missing

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Soniclight

Another related problem:

So I reinstalled Kontakt Factory Library 2 through Access as a test to see what would happen. That took about 20 minutes.

I had to close down Cubase since even though re-installed, Kontakt showed an error screen.

So I re-launched Cubase, but Kontakt Factory Library 2 is now missing; the only v.2 of Factory is Factory Selection 2.

Only Kontakt Factory Library (I assume v.1) is visible.

So reinstalling can make things worse in some instances.
Not good. At all.