Downloading Kontakt 7 onto an external drive

NTA00
NTA00 Member Posts: 2 Newcomer
edited October 2024 in Kontakt

Hi all,


I've been trying to download Kontakt 7 from Native Access and onto an external drive. It fails each time with different drives (enough space). Other plugins install no problem.


Is there something about Kontakt 7 that it cann't be downloaded onto an external drive?


Thanks!

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  • Monochrome
    Monochrome Member Posts: 1,383 Expert
    edited July 2023 Answer ✓

    Standalone apps like Kontakt should be kept on your main (internal) drive. Content libraries, however, can (and should!) go to an external drive.

    https://support.native-instruments.com/hc/en-us/articles/211577305-How-to-Change-the-Install-Locations-in-Native-Access

  • NTA00
    NTA00 Member Posts: 2 Newcomer

    Thank you!

  • geometry
    geometry Member Posts: 4 Newcomer
    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/83816#Comment_83816

    Okay, so how can I download the libraries onto an external drive? I actually have everything on an external already because I haven't used Kontakt since before Native Access came around and that's the way it was done back then... but I can't seem to get any of these "official" libraries loaded, except by putting them onto my local hard drive (which is just bad practice, given the size of these libraries). I just upgraded to and installed Kontakt 7, but everything's so ridiculously confusing and complicated now, it's really frustrating. Meanwhile, I'd like to just re-install Kontakt 6, but it's only showing Kontakt 6 Player in Native Access... Also, not all of my "official" libraries (the ones only compatible with Kontakt Full) are working properly in version 7. What's with that? I want version 6 back!

    I really just want to point Kontakt 7 to the right directory on the external drive, like I used to with Kontakt 6, but they seem to have gotten rid of that for something "more convenient"...

  • geometry
    geometry Member Posts: 4 Newcomer

    And then, when I do get an instrument loaded up, I have to go through this really weird process to get to it, where I click the Library button and it brings me to this screen:


    1-load-an-instrument.jpg


    Then I double-click in the main area and it brings me to this default-looking instrument:


    2-new-default-instrument.jpg


    Then after that I have to click that little wrench up in the left hand corner of this default instrument, and it brings me to this page:


    3-library-view-with-weird-default-instrument-still.jpg


    Finally... something vaguely familiar. But what the hell is that default instrument still doing there? Well, let me load one of the instruments and see how it responds:


    4-instrument-selected-but-still-weird-default-showing.jpg


    So now the instrument is loaded and (technically) working properly in the sound department (even though the title of the instrument is still showing the default)... but it shouldn't look like this. Obviously the instrument isn't being handled correctly, for some reason. So, I click on the 'X' in the upper right hand corner of the instrument, and then this happens:


    5-weird-garbled-instrument-view.jpg


    Sweet, I love this... Just what an instrument should look like, right? So, then I have to click back to the Library again, where everything looks 'normal', and then I click the Library icon again to be brought back to this:


    6-actual-instrument-view.jpg


    ...which is what the instrument should actually look like. This can't possibly be the way Kontakt 7 is supposed to work. I'm amazed that it's been like a year since it's been released and I haven't heard more complaints about this kind of thing. Can anyone help me out with this bizarre behavior, or explain what I should be doing differently? How does the program work for you?

    I'm running Big Sur on a 2019 Mac, and the previous Mac I had was running Kontakt 6 with pretty much no problems.

  • geometry
    geometry Member Posts: 4 Newcomer

    Just FYI, I went ahead and re-posted this as its own discussion.. https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/17977/kontakt-7-acting-very-strange-screenshots-included#latest

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