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Maschine Hardware: Design That Endures
Proven Design Philosophy The Maschine hardware series, maintaining roughly the same number of buttons and navigation aids for over ten years, clearly proves it's on the right track with design decisions. This is evident in Akai's MPC XL choice, which the company presents as the flagship standalone and adopts similar…
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Can't get K to sound
Kontakt sounds in stand-alone, when I press the keys in the box, but I can't get it to sound when I play my Arturia KL88. I'm missing some kind of setting. Any thoughts?
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MAC M1 MAX
Q:Translation inserted by Moderator (translation by DeepL) Hi, ever since the last NI update, my CPU has been at full capacity, and I have no idea why. I've tried every sample rate I can think of, but nothing works. It doesn't matter which DAW I use—Live, FL, or Logic—it just runs completely without any CPU load. Support…
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Kontakt malfunction
Hello, I own a full Kontakt 6 license purchased in September 2022 and registered to the associated account. The following products are correctly displayed in my Native Instruments account: KONTAKT Kontakt 7 Bundle Update Kontakt Factory Library for KONTAKT However, on my new Mac running macOS Tahoe, both Kontakt 7 and…
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Is Odes worth it?
Hello composers, I've been part of Native Instruments community for over 15 years, but this is my first post and I wish it could've been under different circumstances. I recently purchased Odes to complete my Evolution Series Library. The library was billed as the rhythm portion of this triad and while that is true, it's…
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Help with Kontakt seeing presets
Komplete standard worked great in Windows 10, but my PC crashed so decided on a clean start in Windows 11. Since that time kontakt doesn't seem to see all my content presets. Currently Kontakt sees 5641 presets. There should be many thousands more. I've followed NI support's advice to delete the database files etc. I've…
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Getting weird "Content Missing" errors for libraries I have installed
I reinstalled Windows 11 from scratch a week ago, then all the music making stuff, but I wanted to keep things simple, so I didn't install all the versions of Kontakt I have, which are from 5 to 8, just 8. I don't know if it's the case, but I wanted to minimize problems with Kontakt, and I thought installing just the…
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How to locate files on disk of an instrument already loaded?
When you already have a product loaded - perhaps from an old template in your DAW, (mine is Cubase 15), how do you then find the location of the disk folder for the NKI? For Quick load puposes Can't seem to find an easy way. Thank you Z
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Cinematic folk metal made with Komplete / Kontakt instruments
Hi everyone, I wanted to share two finished songs from my one-person cinematic folk metal project Wuldorwudu. Both songs are part of my first concept album, The Path of the Seven Stars, and several Native Instruments tools were used in the production for orchestral, atmospheric and cinematic layers. The songs are…
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Kontakt Player 7 plugin not loading in REAPER after update
Today, while installing an instrument for Kontakt Player 7 I allowed Native Access to update Kontakt and itself. Upon completing these updates, I found the following issue when attempting to initiate Kontakt within REAPER: Upon investigating other instances of this issue online, I've attempted the following solutions:…
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Ableton 12.3.8 + 2 instances of Kontakt = Major Crackling & Dropouts on M3 Max with 128 GB RAM
As the title says I'm having major issues with Ableton + Kontakt 7 or 8 (I tried both) Buffer size: 128 Sample Rate: 48000 Even when using one Kontakt instance I get crackling and popping along with 100+ CPU. Example setup below: Kontakt: Spitfire Symphony Orchestra (testing with Violins and Violas) Using midi channels to…
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Libraries not compatible with Kontakt 7 (need earlier versions)
hey, i urgently need some older versions of libaries for kontakt 7 (it says i need kontakt 8), but this site is currently down: https://www.native-instruments.com/en/account/downloads/ is there another way? when will the site be up again?
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How to use Scarbee Classic EP-88s
I have Logic Pro 12.2 on a Mac Mini M4, using Tahoe 26.3.1. My colleague advised me to purchase the Scarbee Classic EP-88s, which I did. I have no knowledge of "Native Instruments" or "Kontakt" but I believe I successfully downloaded both, and it appears that I installed the Scarbee Classic EP-88s (see image). I was told…
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Kontakt 7 is missing from native access
Recently reinstalled win 10 and now trying to reinstall all my ni software. I have komplete 14 and use kontakt 7 but there is no kontakt 7 to be found in native access only kontakt 8 player. Anyone had this happen or has any advice?
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Best electric drum kit for Native Instruments?
hi all! I’m hoping to get recommendations here for an ideal electric drum kit setup that works well with Native Instruments plugins across the board. At this point through Komplete, Maschine, Kontakt etc. I have so many amazing kits to choose from for drums — but so far the electric kits I’ve plugged into my Mac Studio and…