KK3: let's talk about Preset Edit and View improvements

Project :

As a long time producer (started on pro 24 !!) , one thing we know that is counter productive is "high numbers of options "during production .

In pre production , one of the job is to define the artistic direction / color / universe //.... call it how ya feel .

I do think that this has its place here , as a owner of alot of NKS 3rd party stuff .... we HAVE TOO MUCH displayed even with filters .

A PROJECT would be the ability to choose only the titles you gonna use for it , exemple :

***** Project 1 : *****

Arturia Juno / jupiter

UHE : Repro 5

NI : monark / Drumlab

***** Project 2 : *****

NI : Abbeyroad drums 70 / scrabee bass

Spitfire : Albion IV

Arturia : Farsifa

Can be down like we do with programm change on synth

Or an oiption CTRL+Select libraries to be dispalyed

Another thing that would be great is the ability to create its own folder categories , specially for FX (layout)

I use it less and less because of this , this i can do it in daw and this is what i do ...

Fully agree, as this request cannot be repeated often enough. As I can also see from the feedback coming from other users previously working with KK2, the ability to have NKS Browser and related VST Plugin options available at the same time on the PC/Mac screen should be ranked with the same top priority as all the topics that @Matthew_NI listed in his initial posting at the beginning of this thread. After all, from my perspective this is anyway a pre-requisite in order to enable the sample-based drag & drop feature that has been confirmed already by NI to be brought back to KK3 someday.

And of course, there are two simple functionalities to be pointed out explicitly which everyone expects to be available naturally but which have never been "activated" since KK exists in general.

• Enabled "Maximize" icon to achieve real "full screen" view

I guess every user (regardless of which OS used) is expecting to have some kind of active "maximize" icon available, usually located in the application's top menu bar. In case of Windows this is a simple square. Yes, it is also available in KK3, but for whatever reason it has not been "armed" by NI. Unfortunately, that applies to most NI applications; the "maximize" icon is just displayed as a grayed-out option only without any effect. Maybe NI can finally implement that missing "full screen" functionality which let's every user make KK appear across the full screen - regardless of which resolution and zoom factor is currently set - just by one single click.

• "Full visibility" instead of abbreviated library & preset fractions

Especially when browsing content inside a particular NKS library, there should at least be some space at the KK top area in order to display the full name of the currently selected library, its currently selected banks and sub-banks simultaneously (as it was in KK2). It is more than inconvenient having to guess in which particular hierarchy a user currently is located and what exactly is currently selected or even edited. The same applies to the preset list itself. In many cases the decisive information is hidden in the last few characters, but exactly these are not visible. However, as long as NI may not be able to provide such manual or automatic scaling functionality within the KK browser content, maybe it's at least possible for NI to implement a feature which displays each entry in full clear text (= full length) whenever hovering with the mouse over such an affected entry. Each ordinary Windows browser supports such a "hover" functionality in case something isn't fully visible due to current space restrictions, so maybe KK can also be prepared in order to behave the same.

Thanks in advance for considereing these very important improvements!

NI, if u read this - in future nks2 editor please add ability to FIX SOME PARAMRTERS on some pages. For example I want to map tab with filter section and this tab have several pages - so I want CUTOF to be presented on some of them or on every. Such as volume for example etc.