Setting Instrument Favorites

GrizzlyAK

I'm still a bit new to Kontakt, so I'm REALLY hoping I'm missing something obvious, and not that the program designers really missed the mark. One thing in particular I'm trying to do that is so very easy in other instrument ecosystems that seems worse than torture in Kontakt: setting favorites.

For example, I'm using an instrument that is File-Based, and I have it loaded, and I like the way it sounds and want to mark it as a favorite. How exactly do I do that? Am I missing a feature in the UI somewhere? Is this even possible in Kontakt? Is it even a thing? Maybe it's not, or maybe it's just not for those that don't appear in the File > Libraries (not the new Library view). I'm not talking about Snapshots, since that won't be helpful in the Library View. Maybe it's coming, given the ability in the Library View to mark instruments as Favorites there. But does that mean I have to leave the Instrument UI to go to the Library View and search to find it and THEN mark it as Favorite? That's a real PITA.

Which leads me to another question about the new Library View. In the screenshot below, you can see that this particular library has a naming convention that makes it pretty much impossible to know which library you are choosing on the right, even if I CAN make it a favorite. As far as I've been able to determine, I can't expand the column, so this is all I can see. If this is it and no way to fix it, I have to ask if the UI designers ever actually USE their creation? Maybe this is just a 'fault' of third-party instruments, and NI doesn't really care. Either way, it leaves me looking for a more adaptable, user-friendly ecosystem.

Being new to Kontakt, I'm scratching my head as to how (and why) this platform has been so popular? Hopefully, I'm missing something that isn't obvious to me. I just want an easy way to MARK instruments I like at the time in the UI as favorites and then be able to find them easily again when browsing through my libraries in the new Library View. Is that possible?

Thanks in advance for any advice. Cheers.

Vocalpoint

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/200798#Comment_200798

To be fair - I gave you the answer. This is the spot. There is no other spot.

On the other issue - if Ni is adding all this extra text to patch names - there must something else going on.

I do not have that library but many others with no extra text. All are NKS compliant.

Not sure if your example 1928 piano is. I do not think it is.

I also think the “starring” capability is designed for specific patch names that fit. Not those that do not.

Clearly there are standards not being consistently met.

VP

Vocalpoint

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/40624/setting-instrument-favorites

For the second issue - that is just 8Dio not knowing anything about anything.

There is zero need whatsoever to have their pointless company name AND the library name in every patch. Especially when I can see the library I already loaded.

As far as favorites - this is the spot. Those stars are your favorites.

VP

GrizzlyAK

VP, thanks for your response, although you failed to answer either question. As I stated in my post, I know you can favorite instruments in the Library View, but that was NOT my question. I would like to favorite them from the Instrument UI without having to leave and go find it on a completely different page.

As for your first comment about 8DIO "not knowing anything about anything", I could say the same thing about NI. I can point to several companies with libraries (I own) having such problems, like PianoBook, Sonixinema, Shreddage, Have Audio, Jacob Collier, Triumph Audio, Emergence Audio, Bunker Percs, Alpine Project, Project SAM, VSCO 2… I could go on. Not only that, when you actually mark an item as a favorite, the STAR itself covers (removes) 4-5 characters of the name making it even worse! The fact that NI gave me the capability to widen the right panel without the ability to widen the column seems like more than an oversight.

Vocalpoint

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/200798#Comment_200798

To be fair - I gave you the answer. This is the spot. There is no other spot.

On the other issue - if Ni is adding all this extra text to patch names - there must something else going on.

I do not have that library but many others with no extra text. All are NKS compliant.

Not sure if your example 1928 piano is. I do not think it is.

I also think the “starring” capability is designed for specific patch names that fit. Not those that do not.

Clearly there are standards not being consistently met.

VP