I am looking for NI Resources file/folder documentation (dist_database and image)

arnthorsnaer

I've been using the information on this site (a great resource) to help me setting up images and colors for my third party VST: https://sites.google.com/view/nks-libraries/diy-preset

According to that site, for folder names / file names and some json file contents, one should use plug-in name and product name where the plug-in name should match whatever the VST is called in Komplete Kontrol but the product name can be selected freely (having it different from plug-in name might be useful in some scenarios). It goes on to say that 3 folders in dist_database and image should use product name and 1 folder should use plug-in name. However my experiments show that everything works out if I just stick with the same name for all of them (in other words when plug-in name = product name). So I am assuming that this might be incorrect or out of date.

Question: Is there a more recent / official documentation for this?

Bonus Question: Is there a documentation for how to prevent all saved third party Kontakt NKS presets from being grouped into the "Kontakt" instrument in the User section. I am trying to create a separate Instrument for each "library".

Blindeddie

The info in the link you provided is current, this has not changed much at all. As far as a Deeper dive in to changing product tags (as well as a few others, you would need to use the NiMBank tool that you can find here..

https://denivel.blogspot.com/search/label/NimBank

there is a UI front end that someone put together, I am not sure of the Development status as I just use it Via the command line.

NymbankBatch 1.1.0.18 Release Version- Windows GUI for nimbank | NI Community Forum (native-instruments.com)

Here is another thread from the old forum on Nimbank.

[Guide] Custom User Group "Expansions" with thumbnails. | NI Community Forum (native-instruments.com)

arnthorsnaer

@Blindeddie great, thank you (although somewhat late) for your reply and the links. Very helpful.