Can Creator Tools export specific volumes from all zones?

andiOak

Can I use the Creator Tools to export the individual zone volumes from my Kontakt Instrument?

I am referring to the individual sample zones's specific volume adjustments. Not the group volumes.

Is it also possible to get the internal values of plugin settings from my NKI file?

(I know it's called "creator" tools, but perhaps it can also extract info? 🙄 )

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EvilDragon

Yes, you can read zone parameters. You cannot read FX/modulator parameters currently, though.

EvilDragon

It's both, in fact.

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EvilDragon

Yes, you can read zone parameters. You cannot read FX/modulator parameters currently, though.

andiOak

Okay, is it something you can do and export all data, or is it just about reading it and copy-pasting one value after another?

EvilDragon

It's both, in fact.

andiOak

Okay, thanks for that. Is doing the task in batch requiring the Lua language or a simple menu click? (basically, do I have to get into another language to do it efficiently?)

EvilDragon

You do need to script it in Lua.

andiOak

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/3036#Comment_3036

Thanks, any idéa about where to find such a script? (I never worked with/in the Lua language, but watched a YT video just now and am not that discouraged, seems simple enough)

andiOak

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/3042#Comment_3042

Found one, from David Hilowitz:

https://gist.github.com/dhilowitz/4af789fd36e8a9f8b6b8764ad658828e

Will have a try. (I needed to get the volumes for input to SFZ anyway :))

medusa

You could tweak this to save a file, if you're trying to make SFZ from Kontakt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAVbD1B0TAs

EDIT

Ah, I see it's the same script, but David's version has Garth's copyright lines removed.

andiOak

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/3111#Comment_3111

Thanks for the tip. I see I already had that in my bookmarks, hahaha, from a long time ago. But the Hilowitz version has that nice concatenation into the var 'regionText'. I'm partial to the tidyness 🙄.

Found some nice explanations of that weird looking for loop in Lua too, never saw that (Generic for) before:

https://www.lua.org/pil/4.3.5.html

Lua Generic for statement, that differs from most other languages I know. And the pairs() function used with it:

https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#pdf-pairs

andiOak

To tweak it to save a file, guess this will do the trick:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/31309395/2103111

So the addition would be:

... d. hilowitz end with variable named regionText :

local f = assert(io.open("kontakt-instrument-export.txt", "w"))
f:write(regionText, "\n")
f:close()

Perhaps this is already in NIs own Creator Tools function library though... wait.. there it was:

https://github.com/Yaron-NI/Kontakt-Public/blob/4ca752599c9037ba6bd676cdd3527a3c1c768efb/Creator%20Tools%20Lua%20Framework/Creator%20Tools%20Lua%20Framework/Modules/CtFile.lua#L237

CtFile.write_file(input_file,file_content)

EvilDragon

Generic for like that is also found in Python.

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