Here's a quick and easy way to get a accurate listing of all your Kontakt instrument versions WITHOUT having to mess with PITA nativeaccess, or internet connections etc...

1. Grab the Nirsoft Registry Scanner, make a subfolder for it in your X64 programs folder and extract the archive
2. grab this code below and paste it into a new notepad file

Code:

[General]
ToolTipTimeAutoPop=-1
ToolTipTimeInitial=10
ToolTipTimeReshow=10
ShowInfoTip=1
ShowGridLines=0
SaveFilterIndex=0
MainFont=00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
ShowFoundDuringScan=1
LookAtKeys=1
LookAtValues=1
LookAtData=1
CaseSensitive=0
AddKeyEntries=0
KeysOnly=0
TimeFilter=0
LastTimeUnit=2
LastTimeValue=5
UnicodeSearch=1
UseLenRange=0
UseValueTypes=0
ValueTypes=2
BaseKeys=0
UseBaseKeys=0
UseRemoteComputer=0
RemoteComputer=
AutoStartRemoteRegistry=0
AutoSkipRecursiveKey=0
BaseKey=HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments
Find=ContentVersion
ExcludeList=HKLM\Software\Classes, HKCU\Software\Classes
UseExcludeList=0
MaxNumOfItems=10000
MatchMode=2
LenFrom=0
LenTo=100
3264BitMode=0
SubKeyDepth=-1
KeyOwnerFilter=0
KeyOwnerList=
TimeFrom=06-07-2025 15:59:28
TimeTo=06-07-2025 16:59:28
WinPos=2C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 60 08 00 00 A5 00 00 00 B3 0D 00 00 E0 02 00 00
OptionsWinPos=2C 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 32 03 00 00 93 00 00 00 71 06 00 00 A5 03 00 00
Columns=92 02 00 00 56 01 01 00 64 00 02 00 64 00 03 00 64 00 04 00 64 00 05 00 64 00 06 00
Sort=0
[SearchStrMRU]
0=ContentVersion
1=
2=
3=
4=
5=
6=
7=
8=
9=
10=
11=
12=
13=
14=
15=
16=
17=
18=
19=

3. Save the file to the reg Scanner folder you just made above with a file name of your choice and a file extension of .CFG...
Ex. your_file_name.CFG

4. Run RegScanner and from the main window click on File >> Load Configuration From File

5. In the window select the file_name.CFG you just made above and run the scan

6. the main file window will display the results of the scan and all the current Kontakt library versions are contained in the "DATA" column in the main window

enjoy

 

Last edited: Jul 7, 2025

It's not letting me save the notepad as .CFG

 

Open NEW FILE (blank) in NotePad >> copy the code from the window and paste into the new blank notepad file >> in NotePad "SAVE AS" filename.CFG (i just did it here in two seconds). Make certain that new .CFG file is in the same folder as RegScanner. Should work fine.

ps.. Just for giggles, you do have the display of file extensions turned ON, yes?

 

Last edited: Jul 7, 2025

what do you mean display file extensions?

 

Neat trick

 

can this be adapted for the portable kontakt?

 

It can't. With Kontakt Portable all the information that goes into the registry for other versions is stored in:
Kontakt_Portable_folder\UserData\Settings.cfg

It's a regular text file

 

Ok...when you get to the save-as, set the pull down menu to "all files". Then in the filename area backspace out the .txt or whatever is there, and write in YourFileName.cfg instead, and save the file...

 

Last edited: Jul 7, 2025

ahh ok thanks, i was like wtf am I doing wrong lol

 

what do you put in the registry scan options?

 

I'm not so much a Kontakt user, but that all looks rather impressive for those who are! +1


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That sounds like something that would happen to me as well!

 

4. Run RegScanner and from the main window click on File >> Load Configuration From File

5. In the window select the file_name.CFG you just made above and run the scan

6. the main file window will display the results of the scan and all the current Kontakt library versions are contained in the "DATA" column in the main window

 

I always installed the regular Kontakt as well as using the portable.
I started doing that long ago for SOME reason I can't recall, but I'm pretty sure it had something to do with library info.

In my current setup I chose to not install any Native Instruments stuff, as Kontakt (portable) is the only thing I've been using.
But I will install Kontakt again just to check out this handy tool.

[EDIT - It works very nice. Great to be able to check those versions so easily!
Thanks, @saccamano !!

 

Last edited: Jul 10, 2025

I know the rules regarding [REQ]'s on the sister site, but curious if there is a macOS solution or am I possibly forgetting something that may exist in tools I already have.....

 

There is no NirSoft tool that I could find for appleOS. Then again appleOS doesn't have a "registry" to scan. Not really certain where the information is stored for Kontakt FULL version on apple.

 

Indeed. There should be an equivalent of Windows registry for MacOS, but I've never tinkered with a Mac
Probably the fellow user that develops that really cool Kontakt utility for Mac knows all about that.