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  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,863 mod
    edited June 2023
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    Just created a NKS conversion for the new bit crusher plugin Bitpunk (which has a very cool GUI)

    https://unitedplugins.com/BITPUNK/

    All NKS complete and in the user library under JMGSound

  • Vagus
    Vagus Member Posts: 418 Guru
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/78829#Comment_78829

    In the process of sorting this now - what was the sample that didn't load properly, so I can double check that one, if you can remember?

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,863 mod
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/79916#Comment_79916

    It was for the Aconcagua Spirits Pad 2_MPE but I uploaded the fixed patch already (it was just the usual problem of saving to NKS before the sample had fully loaded)

  • Vagus
    Vagus Member Posts: 418 Guru
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/79944#Comment_79944

    Thanks!

    I've rectified that my end, because there is an entirely different folder structure coming, making it easier for people to pick and choose, based on the soundpacks they own.

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,863 mod
    edited June 2023
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    I'm never doing Equator2 again.

    Lol yeah don't blame you :) Mammoth task, job well done!!!

    Thanks so much for this.

  • Rikk Show
    Rikk Show Member Posts: 100 Helper
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    It seems with the latest KK they updated how library images are read.

    I can now see my custom image in KK's plugin view (top row). This works for sub-libraries of, UVI Workstation, Reason, Emulator X and so on.

    But NOT in Kontakt 7, anyone know if it is possible?.

    When you now import a library in the new Kontakt browser, Kontakt even organizes the NKS files according to the Kontakt nki folder structure. Pretty cool, it got solved finally.

    Shown here is Reason Parsec:

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  • Sunborn
    Sunborn NKS User Library Mod Posts: 2,410 mod
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/80064#Comment_80064

    But NOT in Kontakt 7, anyone know if it is possible?

    If i understood your question, the same thing apply to Reaktor. Each ensemble (instrument) can have only 1 bank and 1 sub-bank. Usually the bank is the name of the ensemble. Sub-banks are rarely used, because of this limitation, as usually, an instrument can have many sub-banks.

    So i assume, this is the case with Kontakt too

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,863 mod
    edited June 2023
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/80064#Comment_80064

    For custom Kontakt libraries if you import them to the browser you can create a custom image and put it in NI Resources/Image with the library name like you do with KK only you just need MST_artwork.png

  • Vagus
    Vagus Member Posts: 418 Guru
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/80064#Comment_80064

    This should also work oin Kontakt 7 - it's how you have different MST_plugin images for Factory Library 2. I'll do some testing later today, but it should work in the same way as FL2 folder structure does.

    This change has been usable since 2.7 I think - I was working on HALion, and got this working- and @JesterMgee did the same in splitting on his original release.

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,863 mod
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    Yeah we had some discussion of this on the forum a while back and since then many of us have stopped feeling a need to add additional folders to get images on both screens for example - it has made things simpler

  • Rikk Show
    Rikk Show Member Posts: 100 Helper
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/80238#Comment_80238

    Are you able to get the MST_plugin image to show in KK (The row with plugin images, same where the knobs are), for Komplete libraries (Plugin view on the hw)?

    Browser view on hw is fine.

    IMG_20230625_151834375_HDR.jpg
    IMG_20230625_151858737_HDR.jpg

    Both pictures are plugin view.

    I'm not able to, I just get the factory Komplete 7 image. My custom json files has "Native Instruments" as vendor.

  • Rikk Show
    Rikk Show Member Posts: 100 Helper
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    Here is my MST_plugin in the image/kontakt folder.

    I do have capital letters in file and folder names, but that is no longer an issue, right?

    I also forgot to add the MST_plugin first time I ran KK. Will it remember this and not look again?

    image.png


  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,863 mod
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    I think it should be MST_artwork.png and slightly smaller (134x66) - that's what I have anyway (obviously in a folder named after the library)

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,863 mod
    edited June 2023
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/80322#Comment_80322

    Not for Kontakt libraries - it's a bit different as KK see's them all as libraries not separate plugins

  • TallerThanPenguins
    TallerThanPenguins Member Posts: 26 Member
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/80339#Comment_80339

    I've created a ton of image and db files for my various non-player Kontakt libraries but cannot seem to get a few things to work right:

    1. Image when ANY non-player Kontakt library is loaded does not show the MST images and logo in KK or on the hardware. Used to use the default Kontakt 7 image as you say above @Kymeia, now it consistently shows a random library plugin image (MST_plugin) and logo (MST_logo) I created - cannot figure out how I managed that but it seems stuck now to always show the same library instead of default Kontakt - even though the images/kontakt folder has the original art (and displays correctly if using factory selection instruments).
    2. I consistently set the vendor in the .meta and .json files but some libraries still show under Native Instruments in the KK browser. Cannot seem to identify why this happens - I worked through the libraries in vendor order and was copy/pasting the new files and saw different results for the same vendor.
    3. Have not shared what I've done as I have not found/set up a scalable way to create previews (Mac/Apple silicon) so it's just useful so far for images/logos and I don't know the root cause of 1 & 2 so don't want to create problems for others.


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