[NKS] Freelance Soundlabs 3rd Party NKS Libraries for Komplete Kontrol / Maschine

Now Available: D16 Drumazon 2 NKS Library

New updated library for Drumazon 2 contains all factory presets for the Drumazon 2 VST Instrument with full controller mapping, tagged files, database/artwork files and sound previews.

Banks have been created to allow you to use Drumazon 2 with the internal sequencer (locked to host BPM) or as a drum machine. There are also banks to use it as a single stereo output or in multi-channel mode to map to tracks in your DAW.

Now Available: Rhizomatic Plasmonic NKS Library

Full NKS library for Rhizomatic Plasmonic. Presets have all been fully tagged by hand with plugin category banks created and include full controller mapping, sound previews and database/artwork files. Works with VST3 plugin version only.

Now Available: GForce OB-1 NKS Library

This library adds NKS support for GForce OB-1 allowing all presets to be browsed from the hardware or from the Maschine / Komplete Kontrol software with full controller mapping, detailed tagging converted from the OB-1 preset tagging, sound previews and library artwork.

try either clear the browsers cache of after login if it occurs, hold CTRL (pc) / OPTION (Mac) and click the browser refresh, should update the page correctly.

Now Available: GForce Imposcar3 NKS Library

NKS Library is now available for the VST3 version of Imposcar3. This library covers all presets in all 3 factory banks with tagging converted from the preset library into NKS format tagging. A full controller map, sound previews and library artwork is also included.

While this library should function just fine there are some things to be aware of.

There is a bug in the current VST3 version of Imposcar3 which will cause the plugin to not output any sound if you switch presets using the plugins browser. This is what had delayed this library from being released for a while as it wasn't possible to simply save out the NKS files and have them work when loaded. However after a test by @jggorman confirmed it was indeed possible for this plugin to work I decided to look closer as to what was causing this issue and look for a way to work around the issue.

From my investigation it seems the VST3 version of the plugin is somehow reading the preset data incorrectly and messing up the plugins parameters when switching between presets while loaded in Komplete Kontrol or Maschine. The values are wildly different than they should be and this is causing parameters to set OFF in most cases.

Since I had already pre-exported and tagged all the NKS files in the hope a fix may come I was able to read the raw preset data from the xml preset files and inject/replace the preset data within the NKS files to correct this issue and make the files work. I have also tested saving instances within a project and everything recalls correctly (tested in Maschine, Ableton Live and Reaper), tho be aware for users using Ableton Live on Windows you may see the long standing bug with Komplete Kontrol where the plugin window does not display when loaded but there is nothing I can do on that front and believe me, I have tried to offer detailed feedback on the issue over the years to no avail. You can still load sounds and use the mapped controls which is how I have been working with some plugins. I also tested the VST2 version and that has the same issue in Ableton Live otherwise I would have generated a VST2 library version as a workaround.

So all browsing and control should work and as long as you do not use the plugins own browser to switch presets in your project. The plugins state will save correctly (or at least should) in your project if it works when loaded from the NKS files. If GForce eventually fix this bug the current library will also still work as it should.

Funny because I did check the display of the BG for this reason as I use the predominant color of the plug-in where possible for the art and it was readable to me but I did wonder if it was still too light.

I’ll adjust it and also have some additional fixes for faulty sound previews and just a couple of presets that have the incorrect file names so prob Friday I’ll have an update for it.