Sharing project back and forth with missing samples creates empty instances of Kontakt

kylepyke

I have a Reaper project with about 15 instances of Kontakt. I'm passing the project off for editing, but editor is missing some of the libraries. I've found, in order to mitigate the missing sample issue, you need to open EACH INSTANCE of Kontakt and click the "Ignore this time" dialog for the plugin to load a placeholder instrument without samples.

If the editor does not open EACH INSTANCE and click the dialog, Kontakt does not load placeholder instruments, meaning, if the editor saves their work, any instance that doesn't have its dialog cleared will save as an empty instance.

Is there a way to auto-ignore missing samples, or force the instruments to load within the instance without samples, so I'm not receiving a project with a bunch of empty Kontakt instruments?

This has caused a number of headaches having to reload the instance from a prior save, and hope the MIDI assignments map correctly.