NKS Development Discussion

Kymeia · June 2023

Here is SoundMorph Dust - a rather whacky and hard to control but interesting granular - comes as synth and effect - I had to rename the effect version in the template to remove the brackets from (fx) which made it impossible for KK to find the thumbnails

https://www.soundmorph.com/product/49/dust

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zbbrvwok7k5uakx/Dust%20VST3%20NKS%20template.zip?dl=0

Rikk Show · June 2023

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/59236#Comment_59236

What is the status for Spire 1.5.15. (latest VST3):

Stable in KK/Maschine?

Migration of NKS from VST2 to VST3?

JesterMgee · June 2023

I never had VST2 for it but I do now have VST3 and it is fine for me, the only things to note whihc have always been the case is the GUI size and selected template are (stupidly) stored within the preset data so the size/template I used to make the NKS files (which is default) is what is recalled. I may look at generating several versions of the library with a few different size/template selections but I also suggested to the dev to make this setting a plugin setting, not a preset setting and they said they would consider this as an option.

Rikk Show · June 2023

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/75325#Comment_75325

Thanks. Looks like I managed to glitch delete my Spire VST3 question 😂

Kymeia · June 2023

OK I have finally finished the main work in reorganising the NKS User Library as it had become very cluttered over the years and hard to navigate, and also I wanted a clearer demarkation between older VST2 templates, most of which don't work anymore on M series Macs, and up-to-date VST3 plugin NKS. So the Folder structure is basically:

Current NKS User Library folder is for current NKS that are tested with Komplete Kontrol and Maschine post versions 2.80 (KK) and 2.16 (Maschine) - this is where NI switched primarily to VST3 support, and on Mac Apple Silicon support. The NKS in these folders are either VST3 only (which will be stated) or will work with plugins that support 'migration' (that is where NKS made with the VST2 also load in the VST3). A few include NKS for both formats. NKS templates and patches in this folder are sorted by developer/company.

Legacy NKS User Library folder contains older NKS, all made with VST2 versions, and we can't guarantee that all will work in the newer KK/Maschine and on Apple Silicon but they are likely to work fine on Windows at least and maybe older Macs. It's a bit of a 'pot luck' as many of these files go back many years

Then there is a shared folder for some of the contributors to this library to directly upload new content which I will also copy into Developer folders and a Misc folder for things like NKS previews, graphics etc

The link, as always, is also in my Sig and has not changed from the first post in this thread and its old forum predecessor. This reorganisation will probably, unfortunately, mean many of the previously posted links throughout this thread are broken, but the new structure makes the library much easier to browse and anyway much easier than using search in this forum to locate stuff, which doesn't work very well.

Thanks to all contributors including Sunborn, Christos Adamos, Vagus, Mercury, Diam and others (on the older forum) - I have setup a contributors text file listing them and had their permission to move things around. Also added basic information on how to install and create NKS patches and templates

Sunborn · June 2023

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/75498#Comment_75498

Very well done! 👍️

I noticed only one mistake, one of my archives is in wrong directory, the Xfer Records LFOTool.zip. It is VST2 only and does not migrate either. You have it in the Current VST3 folder. :-)

Kymeia · June 2023

Thanks - will move - there are bound to be a few things I missed

Kymeia · June 2023

btw in doing this I realised we still don't have NKS for Fabfilter Twin 3 VST3, only the VST2 version, so I will do those next now it appears to be more stable (unless I missed some?)

Sunborn · June 2023

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/75534#Comment_75534

LOL... it seems that we all waited the same thing! 😂

Kymeia · June 2023

In the meantime I've just uploaded a fixed template for u-he ACE VST3 (no presets) and am working on the same for Bazille - one advantage of the new structure is it negates the need for direct links as stuff is just easier to find. For u-he plugins just look in the u-he folder. Most u-he plugins already support NKS but not ACE or Bazille.

Kymeia · June 2023

Added Bazille and Triplecheese templates too - these can all be used to save presets with now

Kymeia · June 2023

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/75534#Comment_75534

This isn't working out, the ARP patches still do not play back correctly for me.

Sunborn · June 2023

One bug that should be fixed (it's easy for anyone to do it but it would be better to exists corrected on the common NKS library).

On @Mercury's folder Cherry Audio Mercury-6.

In NI Resources\dist_database\cherry audio\mercury-6\ the categories.json, has "Product" : "Mercury-4" instead of "Product" : "Mercury-6", thus the instrument appears in category "Others" instead of "Synthesizers".

Diam · June 2023

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/75530#Comment_75530

Thanks, that is great. I could not see a folder for The Usual Suspects maps in the repository. May be an idea for anybody who may want to do additional work on banks and/or previews moving forward.

Kymeia · June 2023

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/75690#Comment_75690

Fixed thanks

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