I reinstalled Windows 11 from scratch a week ago, then all the music making stuff, but I wanted to keep things simple, so I didn't install all the versions of Kontakt I have, which are from 5 to 8, just 8. I don't know if it's the case, but I wanted to minimize problems with Kontakt, and I thought installing just the latest version was a good idea.
After that, I opened a few Cubase projects that were a few years old, I started getting the usual Kontakt errors of Kontakt missing on this and that track, because it seems that if a track had Kontakt 7, then it doesn't load 8 instead with the same instrument, it just doesn't load it at all.
But in the cases that it was Kontakt 8 and it loads it, there's a weird thing happening. I'm getting the Content Missing prompts for things that are installed, like in this case:
Well, I do have Project Sam's "The Free Orchestra" installed, but when I worked on this project last time, which apparently was in September 2025, I didn't get this.
And it makes me think, perhaps I didn't because before I wiped my C drive about a week ago and reinstalled everything, I didn't install Kontakt 7, just 8? So for those of you who know better, could that be a reason? This is not the only time I got this dialog. I just didn't take screenshots before, but I will from now on.
And this begs the question, if I install Kontakt 7, after having installed 8, is that going to make Kontakt less stable? I mean, this is not life or death, I can rebuild the project, but since I have a lot of projects from 2024 and 2025 with Kontakt 7, it would save me a lot of time to just install Kontakt 7.
