I wondered if anyone had considered doing this.
If possible, I imagine it would be a case of just re-saving presets, and audio previews, to different areas.
"Any impediment?" Yes. Your own life expectancy will likely expire before you complete such a project.
Seriously, what you propose makes about as much sense as building a rowboat out of screen doors, and THEN taking it out on the water. Without a life preserver for you. Or your passengers. 🤨
Did you know that just the "standard" version of Komplete 15 has over 50,000 sounds? Each one of those has its own presets, and they're in different instruments too. FM8, Guitar Rig, Reaktor, and more.
You won't finish before you die, not even if you can find 10 (foolish) friends to split up the work.
But you know what? I just remembered that Anton Gaudi's house, Sagrada Familia, is STILL being built in Barcelona, and he died a hundred years ago. I guess if he can do that, you can do this.
So forget what I said above. You do you! Be sure to let us all know when it's done. I'm sure I'll be able to get emails or texts after I die. Somehow, they'll make it possible. How else are they going to get me to keep voting and paying taxes? 🤣
Instead of making assumptions, why not ask questions?
So, here's the plan:
1 - Go through each instrument/synth, listening to and favouriting presets. The overall idea is to end up with a 'Best of' Mega-Synth, containing only the wheat and no chaff. Will be a brutal cull. An example would be to get the 1800 or so FM8 presets down to 200-300.
2 - Next will be to set up new NKS frameworks (Have to learn how to do this). A lot of fantastic work has been done by NI, @JesterMgee/ https://freelancesoundlabs.com/nks , and also forum contributors such as @Kymeia etc. For my own personal use, I'm thinking I might just like to have the main 'performance' controls to be front-loaded, to the first few pages e.g AsdR x 2 , filters, FX etc.
3 - Retag all the presets, hopefully to conform to a much tighter, cleaner and more meaningful/useful (for me) selection.
4 - Audio previews may have to be redone, as apparently they're strewn across many weirdly named folders.
5 - Lastly, to copy over the same framework to the M+, at least for compatible instruments only.
Given the added detail, can anybody see a reason why this couldn't work.
Cheers :)
Seems like I'm on my own with this then.
Please delete the thread.
Thanks
Most users are not close to willing to go to all that trouble. Whole point of KK is to lessen the amount of work needed. Your vision may suit you but likely not others (doesn't align with my needs that is for sure)
For instance, going through every sound as you propose on my system would need me to assess close to 700,000 files which seems insane to even try. The main thing with KK is when you need a sound sometimes you are not sure what you need and KK with the preview feature can help uncover some sounds you never knew you had. Say you need a string for something and an orchestral sound is not what fits, you may well find that a cheesy 80s synth string is just the ticket however, if you were to listen to that sound isolated it sounds terrible so you may very well ditch it.
Then you explain on setting up a new framework and doing retagging??? No idea about what you believe you will do on the framework side but I can tell you as someone who has tagged hundreds of thousands of sounds by hand using a custom semi-automated process built on multiple stream decks you will want to blow your brains out after a few thousand, it is the worst thing to do. Then in regards to the M+, that does not work with VST plugins so that is not going to work. TBH it is far from clear what you hope to achieve even with your dot points and even if you had a good vision I can guarantee it wouldn't align to many others. 98% of people from my experience simply want to be able to browse some sounds to add to a production and then adjust a few parameters from the keyboard which KK does just fine.
It has always needed some improvements especially in the tag filtering side but for the most part people can use it to do what it was intended for without too much fuss. Your proposal seems to be to redesign the entire 13 years worth of what we have built on which just doesn't seem logical.
