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

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  • B.Minor
    B.Minor Member Posts: 194 Advisor
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/196875#Comment_196875

    Thanks, I will do so.

  • B.Minor
    B.Minor Member Posts: 194 Advisor
    edited December 2024

    Hmmm, I can't even contact you on your new website, as there's always an error displayed, claiming that "reCAPTCHA V3 validation failed".
    However, I don't see any CAPTCHA to resolve by myself. You mentioned that this is a new "invisible" version, checking mouse movements in order to verify if a human is sitting behind the PC. Well, I tried any kinds of mouse movements, but obviously your system still thinks I'm a bot…

    EDIT:
    Btw. I'm using an ordinary Firefox browser. Are there any disallowed popup blockers or whatsoever?

  • B.Minor
    B.Minor Member Posts: 194 Advisor

    Okay, it worked now. Seems to be very sensitive in terms of possible popup blockers :-)

  • JesterMgee
    JesterMgee Member Posts: 3,000 Expert

    Now Available: Cherry Audio Atomika NKS Library

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    https://freelancesoundlabs.com/nks/atomika

    First new release for the new site, this library was actually created a month ago but was waiting for the new home.

    All presets converted, fully tagged, sound previews and full library artwork. Comprehensive template to control all available parameters, refer to the readme PDF for a controller reference

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 5,182 mod

    Nice to see you are back in business :)

  • JesterMgee
    JesterMgee Member Posts: 3,000 Expert

    Briefly, have a heap of holidays to clock up now. Xmas, a week long old school "network gaming" event over new years and then a 2 week family holiday to take my kids to the theme parks. Kind of why i've been in a full on focused rush to get this new site running and working. Feel like I could sleep for a month now.

  • abc1
    abc1 Member Posts: 1 Newcomer

    Hey there - purchased NKS for Korg Collection V5. Triton and M1 etc work fine. other instruments don't seem to though maybe its something simple.

    vox continental for example - preview works. and pad mode plays the intrument once - but if I change to keyboard mode nothing. Same in EP1. preview ok - pad mode plays - keyboard mode nada

    Maybe there is some misconfig on my maschine?

    ABC1 :)

  • JesterMgee
    JesterMgee Member Posts: 3,000 Expert

    Not sure on Maschine but should work in the same way. Seems to be loading and working fine for me. Maybe a configuration issue in Maschine?

    Main question, if you load a preset then click the keyboard with the mouse in the VST plugin window, is the sound correct? If the answer is yes it works that way, the issue is more a midi/channel/configuration issue in Maschine I would say.

  • JesterMgee
    JesterMgee Member Posts: 3,000 Expert

    Update Available: D16 Drumazon 2

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    https://freelancesoundlabs.com/nks/drumazon2

    Update available to fix the "Sequenced" version of the presets opening in Host mode instead of Live mode which prevents the sequencer from starting with the host transport.

    Update can be downloaded from your download area, just replace thee NKS files with the latest ones if you wish to load presets correctly in sequencer mode.

  • JesterMgee
    JesterMgee Member Posts: 3,000 Expert
    edited January 13
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    The Classic plugin from the AIEP Collection along with Boom and Vacuum Classic were updated to support VST3 at the end of 2024 and we now have updated NKS libraries that also support these VST3 updated plugin versions along with artwork updates for the latest Komplete Kontrol MK3 display

    The following plugins can now be browsed and loaded via NKS with VST3 compatibility (on both PC and macOS/Apple Silicon)

    This was a huge task as the old libraries were unable to simply be “updated” and every preset from each plugin had to be re-rendered from scratch with all previous tagging information migrated over to the new presets. This was a month long process that I am now happy is completed!

    It should be noted from my tests that the latest VST3 plugins do not seem to be as stable as the previous VST2 versions. On my Windows 10 and 11 machines the plugin windows open outside of the Komplete Kontrol or Maschine display and are simply stuck in the top left of screen. The plugins function just fine tho and all NKS files load without issue tho I have had a few crashes, but out of 10,000+ preset switches this isn't out of the norm. I have reported several issues through to Air Music with no reply in the last few months so I would encourage anyone having issues with the plugins themselves to submit bug reports to Air Music to hopefully get these plugins improved. 

    Due to the hugely long hours and mind numbing work to update these libraries you may find an issue here and there, just let me know if you find anything problematic and I will try and address what I can but be aware, issues related to the plugin window not displaying correctly or crashes are plugin related and should be directed to Air Music. 

    Owners of previous VST2 versions of the library will receive a discount in cart for the update.

  • Onj
    Onj Member Posts: 60 Member

    Hi Jason.

    I managed to install all of the Air Music VST3 updates just fine and haven't managed to make any of them crash on Mac at all, despite flicking through presets very quickly. It's very solid.

    There's a strange issue with the Structure presets though, a lot of them seem to sound full of reverb.

    There's an accordion patch that sounds like a pad, one of the synth leads has a huge long glide time etc. Lots of the sounds also don't sound like their pre-hear.

    Since there's not much mapping in structure, it's not always possible to fix them, or get them to their normal state.

    Do you have any idea about what this might be?

    It's the only plugin that's behaving weirdly on my system.

    Thanks.

  • JesterMgee
    JesterMgee Member Posts: 3,000 Expert

    Likely, it's a bug in the actual plugin but can you contact me via my website and maybe send a video of the issue. The pre-hear are from the old V2 version as it never changed but Structure and Transfuser are the buggiest plugins (on Windows) where these especially would crash, presets don't always load correct (just switching within). I have had contact back from Air about several issues they are looking into but this one is a new one to me. I have never used structure myself but did test a number of the presets and they sounded fine in my tests.

  • JesterMgee
    JesterMgee Member Posts: 3,000 Expert
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/204125#Comment_204125

    Ok, I think I have figured out the issue here, will need to re-save all the presets again :(

    I am not sure yet what the cause of the issue is but I have a hunch. Seems when many of these have saved the Macro controls have not been correctly saved so when loading, the macros are in the wrong positions which means sometimes the cutoff is set low and the sound doesn't play or the delay/reverb is set high.

    I think the issue is due to the delay between loading each preset in the scripts I use not being enough because I noted that sometimes when it loaded a preset, the loading bar would get stuck and never update again and I think this has caused the updating of parameters to not correctly set. I have tested a few presets by saving them manually and they seem to save fine if I do them by hand so I may have to adjust the loading routine to allow for more time or detect a stick process.

    Basically, I need to look into this one but I can at least see the issue.

  • Onj
    Onj Member Posts: 60 Member
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/204187#Comment_204187

    Aah man, I feel bad for bringing it up at all now, sorry about this. I just thought it might be a me problem, something I did.

    If you do fix it though, it will be fantastic. Understand it may not be easy though.

    Appreciate you looking into it at all. Hate making more work for people than strictly necessary.

  • JesterMgee
    JesterMgee Member Posts: 3,000 Expert

    don’t feel bad, it happens and it’s not that bad, the process is automated and runs on one of my many computers, just I have to figure out what the cause of the parameters getting stuck is. I think I just need to allow maybe 10 seconds per preset to load since the issue I think is some presets load large samples which take a few seconds and if you switch presets a few times while the samples load the whole plug-in loading process locks up and the plugin doesn’t work.

    I had noted this but tested a few presets saved when I noted this happen and they seemed to be fine but I did not notice it locks the macros too. I’ll likely have this done in a few days hopefully.

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