Need help with User NKS

kiteon
kiteon Member Posts: 10 Member
edited April 1 in Komplete Kontrol

Hi, new to Komplete Kontrol.. Spent 2 days and I can't get any user nksf to work inside KK. Read everything, and OFC the solution must be that I did not put the files in the correct locations…

I reinstalled everything, and the files are in the same directories that were created by the install, and the folders all look the same as the other installed nks.

(Plugins with an actual install of .nksf work fine, such as u-he, Cherry Audio).

I have only VST3 folder selected. I can see the vst instrument available and can load it in KK (but none of the presets available in KK).

I have the USER folder set to just the default location. (which matches the folder directory I install files to)

When I hit rescan, it completes in less than a second, so I think something is wrong here as I see videos of rescan taking a few seconds or minutes to complete.

If one or two had worked, I could figure this out better, but with nothing working at all, I am totally stumped.

Would be nice if you could simply 'install' it automatically somehow..

thanks

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  • kiteon
    kiteon Member Posts: 10 Member
    edited May 26

    Still won't recognize any nks user installs on my system..

    I think the instructions need improving

    One difference I see on W11 is there is no Users/Documents folder, everything is in Users/Public/Public Documents/ FWIW

    ty

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 5,849 mod
    edited May 26

    The path given in the instructions is just the default one used internally by KK when it saves stuff - I didn't know W11 had changed the default documents location but it should be obvious enough to use whatever path KK uses for saving user documents. tbh It doesn't actually matter where you put user NKS as long as you have added the correct path or paths in the Komplete Kontrol Settings, Library/User tab and make sure they have been scanned. I use multiple custom user folders so I don't get them all scanned every startup and can choose which ones I want to update.

    Screenshot 2025-05-26 at 09.58.49.png

    Of course you also need to put the relevant nksf for the plugins that have NKS files in those folders - if you are hitting scan and it is completing in less than a second then obviously whatever folder you are scanning has no nksf files in it (or just a few). You say this is working for Cherry Audio, they don't have official NKS so you must have done that right for their plugins - what else do you have that has no NKS showing?

  • kiteon
    kiteon Member Posts: 10 Member

    Thanks Kymeia,

    The ones that are working like Cherry Audio are ones that installed via their installer (installed when I installed the plugins).

    The main difference I see so far is my screen looks like this, I can't remove the default (just to try), and if I point to any other folder in the Documents/Native Instruments/User Content folder it gives me the Duplicate Location message.

    prefs.jpg

    Here, this example I used OB-XD…

    User Content.jpg

    these folders all filled with nksf files

    …and the NI Resources

    distdatabase.jpg

    thanks

  • Sunborn
    Sunborn NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,745 mod
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/228043#Comment_228043

    Also on Windows 10, 8, 7 and before… a Users/Documents folder, was never existed, ever!
    where did you see those instructions?

  • Sunborn
    Sunborn NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,745 mod
    edited May 27
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/228290#Comment_228290

    Everything is looking correct on your side…. i can't understand why you can not see the presets

    I assume that you are aware that you actually have to "click" the small human-icon, to enter the user library, right?

    Clipboard_05-27-2025_01.png
  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 5,849 mod

    ‘The ones that are working like Cherry Audio are ones that installed via their installer (installed when I installed the plugins).’

    Cherry Audio plugins don’t come with NKS so I’m confused by this. If you have NKS for these you must have downloaded and installed them separately by yourself

  • JesterMgee
    JesterMgee Member Posts: 3,347 Expert
    edited May 27

    There is NKS libraries for Cherry Audio here if needed:

    https://freelancesoundlabs.com/product-category/downloads/cherry-audio/

    If you already have these, you can contact me for assistance

  • kiteon
    kiteon Member Posts: 10 Member

    Thank you all for your patience and help.

    Sunborn had the answer, I did not see that button all along.

    I think I was confused because I was seeing the third party collections that weren't in the User library so I thought the others would be showing up in the same place.

    doh!

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 5,849 mod

    You are not the first person to make that mistake, also I do think NI could make it clearer which mode it is set to - slightly different shades of grey don't work for me :)

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