Right syntax for relative path on two different PCs

fabni · 2025-06-22T08:21:21+00:00

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fabni

Hello everybody,

I have an instance of K7 on a Win 10 PC I use for tracking (let's call it Tpc)

and another instance on another Win 10 PC for mixing etc. (Mpc)

On Tpc the path is this:

X:\Ableton\Instruments\Kontakt 7\Libraries\

while on the Mpc it's this other one:

N:\Audio\Ableton\Instruments\Kontakt 7\Libraries\

How should I set the "Non-Player content base path" of the two instances to avoid to be asked for missing samples when I open a project on Mpc that was modified and saved on Tpc?

Now, sometimes it can't find the Indiginus fiddle and Marcos Ciscar reed organ samples and it's enough to point it to the right folder to let it find them.

I read about the relative path settings but I'm not sure I understood it…

Thank you.

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Uwe303

Hello,

unfortunately native instruments stuff does not work with relative paths, you have to use absolutely the same path on both computers even the drive letter has to be the same.

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Uwe303

Hello,

unfortunately native instruments stuff does not work with relative paths, you have to use absolutely the same path on both computers even the drive letter has to be the same.

fabni

What does that mean then?

Uwe303

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/231638#Comment_231638

I can only tell you from experience, that if the paths are not equal and you try to open a project on the other computer Kontakt will ask you for the sample path. I can try and report back maybe I missed something all the years. But I'm not the biggest kontakt expert,maybe @EvilDragon can shed some light onto this, he knows for sure

But it sounds like it does what you want for non player libraries.

EvilDragon

The whole point of this option IS to be able to use different base paths for non-Player libraries on different machines (even between PC and Mac). So yes, you can absolutely set up different base folders on different machines, but the structure of those folders needs to be identical regardless of the operating system.

@fabni, you definitely want the relative paths checkbox ENABLED (filled white)! HOWEVER, in order to make this properly work, you have to make sure to load instruments from this path when you load them in your DAW projects.

So yes, you may get the samples missing dialog Uwe is talking about when you try opening a project on another machine that has a different base path. The solution is to simply point that dialog to the base path on that other machine, then (crucially) resave the DAW project (of course the above mentioned checkbox HAS to be enabled beforehand!). This will retain the relative paths and now your DAW project is going to be fully portable between any machine that has the same structure of the non-Player content base path! This also relieves you from needing to reload each and every instrument from every DAW project, from the NPCBP (for short).

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