This isn't strictly correct. If you load a library with a custom .nicnt, i.e. a non-authorised Kontakt library, when you try and load an instrument from it in 5.6.8 it will tell you the library is not authorised and you need to authorise before using the instrument. Even if that library is authorised and working fine within 5.6.6. This is my experience anyway, and many others, hence why most people are sticking to 5.6.6 as @boogiewoogie suggested.

 

Last edited: Jun 11, 2017

@peshti I sent you a private message, you should see it top left under inbox

 

Thanks I just read it and replied

 

Ah, ok, thank you @Bunford, I didn't test it with custom .nicnt yet.

 

Do this:

1. Go to sister site
2. Search for Native Instruments Kontakt 5 v5.6.5 Update UNLOCKED Incl Keygen (which is the latest R2R version)
3. Install this version
4. Search for Native Instruments Kontakt 5 v5.6.6 Update No Install WiN
5. Install by using minimal common sense and reading the instructions in the .nfo

You will now have a fully unlocked and working 5.6.6 version. This is the latest reliable version that will let you add and use allsorts of libraries of your choosing. There is a 5.6.8 update no install version there too, but this introduces Native Instruments' new Native Access, a new authorising tool for libraries. Therefore, it will block you from adding libraries and will also block you from loading instruments from custom .nicnt added libraries. If this doesn't bother you, add 5.6.8 instead of 5.6.6 in step 4 above. If you want to use and add libraries that are non-natively authorised Kontakt libraries, as most of us do, then stick with 5.6.6.

There are workarounds to use 5.6.6 and 5.6.8 side by side, but that is all it is. A workaround. And an unreliable and not particularly useful one at that, mainly because Native Access is not patched so heavily restricts what you can actually load and use in 5.6.8.

 

Cool, I thought I had to install a full kontakt but I can start installation straight from update?

 

Double check first. Some R2R versions have a tool allowing you to activate Kontakt to fool the installer by inserting a registry key to make it look like there is a Kontakt version installed to update. It will be called something like NI_Activator.

Just double checked and the tool isn't in the 5.6.5 update version and it's not a full installer. I assumed you had already installed as you implied you'd installed something. If not, in that case:

1. Go to sister site
2. Search for Native Instruments Kontakt 5 v5.6.1 UNLOCKED Incl Keygen (is a full installer that's 443MB)
3. Install this version
4. Search for Native Instruments Kontakt 5 v5.6.5 Update UNLOCKED Incl Keygen (which is the latest R2R version)
5. Install this version
6. Search for Native Instruments Kontakt 5 v5.6.6 Update No Install WiN
7. Install by using minimal common sense and reading the instructions in the .nfo

 

Alright cool , I had 5.6.1 but deleted it completely since it didn't work with custom made nictn libraries. But man thanks for your explanation!

 

Thanks man this is awesome, I got it working now!!!! Man this is great!

 

Hi - I hope that someone can help me here.

I've been using a cracked version of Kontakt and have successfully upgraded it to 5.5.6, where the majority of my libraries work.

I am on a MAC.

There are releases of 5.6.8 for MAC going around as an update where you replace VST and other elements with the cracked files.

However - the instructions with these downloads from "digital machine" who made the crack, was to update the 5.6.6 version of Kontakt through Native Access and then apply their cracks.
however -= if I do this - it only works as a Stand Alone, and crashes logic if I try to open logic with 5.6.8 installed.

Is there any way to fix this, or is it now generally understood/accepted that there is no real working crack for 5.6.8 and we can't use new plugins like THRILL and others within Logic itself?

Many thanks in advance.

FF.

 

I just gotta ask does everything run fine with this drive? It doesn't seem to be an ssd drive. Also is there a lot of load times when it comes to libraries? Ive looked at other options but the ssd drives seems to e quite expensive. Also I couldn't find this drive in a store here in Sweden.
By the way are you using usb for this drive?


Thanks

 

just check around for what suits your needs.. my answer pretty much stands on specs...

or make yet another thread asking he same thing.... I'm out

 

Being poor I could only afford a 128 Gb SSD. I already had the OS on one of the same size. This was dedicated to libs. I would simply copy any library to it that I needed for the current project (i only usually am working on one at a time) or suspected I might use and then add others as the project progressed. Bread and butter instruments like piano etc always stayed on it. This saved a huge amount of time waiting for libs to load after booting up. Admittedly the initial copying took some time but was worth it for me as i spend quite a lot of time on each project.
Incidentally before this huge investment, I had partitioned the first SSD with about 50 Gb for the OS which left enough space on the other partition for my project libs which of course loaded very quickly in the way that an HDD won't.

 

K5.5.0 (R2R) + 250GB Samsung 960 EVO NVMe + 1TB WD Red for backups
Best combination IMO.

 

Hi everyone! for a few days i'm trying to download and install Kontakt 5, and finally i found this site. I'm trying to follow Bunford's instructions, but i'm such a newbie and i don't know what is sister site..? can anyone tell me please? Cause when i found torrents on many sites, it always had some missing files...
EDIT: I know you're not supposed to put links here... but there is also no way to send a private message to anyone here? as long as you're a newbie? so please... help. I'm desperate :D

 

Last edited: Nov 18, 2017

I have a USB 3 external hard drive which is way faster than 7200 RPM HDD's (i can't believe anyone would use kontakt with 7200 HDD's lol ) and some libraries still struggle to load fast. I had this 50GB piano library that couldn't playback from the external drive so i put it on my main SSD.

Going to buy a PCI SSD with reads of 2.700 MB/S , that'll show kontakt

 

portable 5.7.1

 

Sorry to be a complete noob (which I am)...where/what is the sister site? I've had a drive crash and lost pretty much all my Kontakt installer files along with 75% of my sample libraries (some legit and discontinued...). There are links for these Kontakt versions and updates on the first few pages of a Google search, but having scanned a couple (without Keygens) and come away with issues, I'm wary as to their authenticity...

TIA. K

 

Do you mean an external USB3 SSD drive?

 

thanks for the dedicated input ppl - v much appreciated

 

Last edited: Feb 6, 2020