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In order to move one of our libraries to a new location (after you have already activated it in Kontakt), first make sure there are no DAW's open.

5 How to open sample libraries in Kontakt. 5.2 Kontakt’s Quick Load. 5.2.1 Quick Load browser. 5.2.2 Adding folders and instruments. 5.2.3 Loading an instrument. Kontakt sample libraries come in two flavours. Those that run in the free Kontakt Player and those that will only work with the full (paid) version of Kontakt. File extension nicnt is associated with the Native Instruments KONTAKT, a professional software sampler for Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X (macOS) operating systems. The typical nicnt file contains various data related to the KONTAKT sample library. Updated: September 11.

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Mac:

  1. Quit Native Access
  2. Next, open up an instance of 'Finder' on your computer and go to the following location: Mac HD > Library > Preferences
  3. In this folder, search for the name of the instrument, such as 'EXHALE' (the full file name in this case should be 'com.native-instruments.EXHALE.plist').
  4. Please remove this .plist file by moving it to the trash.
  5. You will need to enter your computer's password in order to authorize this change.
  6. Re-add the Library to Kontakt.
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PC:

  1. Quit Native Access

  2. Then, you'll need to manually delete the following Registry entries:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareNative Instruments*Product Name*

    HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareNative Instruments*Product Name*

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREWOW6432NodeNative Instruments*Product Name*

    Here's how to how to access Windows Registry in order to locate and remove the above files:

    1. Open the Run box with the keyboard combination Windows key + r.
    2. In the Run line, enter “regedit” (without quotes)
    3. Click “OK”
    4. Say “Yes” to User Account Control (Windows Vista/7/8.x/10)
  3. Now you can re-add the Library to Kontakt


Mac

For older versions of Kontakt (pre-Native Access) follow the steps below:

1. Open the Kontakt application in standalone

2. Locate the library in the left sidebar of Kontakt's 'Browse' view

3. Click the 'gear cog' icon

4. Select 'Open containing folder'

A window should appear containing all of your library's files.

5. Move the library folder containing all of these files, which is named after the title of the product (i.e. 'EXHALE'), to the new location you wish for the library to reside. (Do not move any files or subfolders within the library folder itself)

6. Return to Kontakt and locate the library in the left sidebar of Kontakt's 'Browse' view

7. Click the 'gear cog' icon

8. Select 'Remove library'

* NOTE: If you are copying over the library to another drive, do so, then delete the original.

9. In the same 'Browse' view, click the 'Add Library' button

10. Locate the library folder in its new location and click 'Choose' (do not choose any files or subfolders within the library folder itself).

The library should reappear in the 'Browse' view and will reference the new location each time it is loaded.

You can add a non NKS Kontakt library to Komplete Kontrol.

The default user content path can be used, however as this is on the operating system drive on both Windows and MAC it’s worth bearing in mind that sample libraries can be quite large, so this is going to eat into the available space.

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The better option is to use an alternate user path on a secondary internal or external drive.

This is a case of creating and adding this new path within Komplete Kontrol standalone, so that KK knows to scan it in future. Both Windows and MAC have methods for achieving this using either the KK.exe auto hotkey macro, or Keyboard Maestro script for MAc.

The procedure is to first create your new location, and then go to the user library tab within Komplete Kontrol, select the add user path button, at which point you will be prompted to browse for your new location, let’s say E:Non NKS Libraries

Once confirmed, Komplete Kontrol will include this location in future scans.

The second part to the process is to perform a batch resave on the library you are adding, and this should be done prior to the final rescan.

For this, you will be using Kontakt full version on it’s own as a plug-in on Windows, the MAC process may be on the standalone application. Again both Windows and MAC have macro scripts available, which allow you to hit the usually inaccessible batch resave button.

You will get a prompt warning you that you are about to alter files in a library, and only to proceed if you know what you are doing.

This sounds a little scary, but fortunately you do know what you are doing 🙂

After hitting yes, you will again get a standard browser which lets you locate the library folder, once selected hit ok and Kontakt will do the rest.

This essentially updates all of the files pertaining to your library, and resaves them to match the current version of full Kontakt on your machine.

Afterwards, you can do the rescan in Komplete Kontrol, and you should then see your library on the user side of your KK browser under Native Instruments/Kontakt and then the presets in alphabetical order in a long list.

This can be problematic if the preset name does not reflect the libraries identity, for example ‘dreamy summer day’ sounds great as a preset name, but you have no idea unless you have a good memory which product it actually relates to.

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There are a couple of solutions here, you could rename the NKI files and prefix them with something indicative of the product. If you do this you will then need to perform the batch resave step again, so plan ahead and do so beforehand if possible.

There is also the NimBank option, I have not explored this myself, but it’s a utility that gives you the option to categorise your library with a product name, bank etc.

Finally if the library uses NKSN snapshots, although they happily scan into Komplete Kontrol, in most cases they throw up a missing content dialog, due possibly to them being saved on another machine with an absolute path which does not match their new home.

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NKI files are generally the safest and most successful way of getting a non NKS library into Komplete Kontrol, and unless the developer has enabled the parameters to show up within KK, it’s unlikely that any of the KK knobs will work, but it’s certainly a convenient way to gain access to your content under one roof.

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