Thank you … I appreciate appreciation

 

Just try dropping your whole library folder in the KLU NICNT window. It should see it's not installed and activate the button. You will need your password. When installed, the button text will change to "Uninstall this library".

 

INFINITE THANKS

 

You're welcome

 

Thank you for the app! When I click "Just change the SNIPD" i get an error:
Sorry I had a problem doing this - a permission problem maybe?

my library is on an external drive - intel / monterey / imac

 

Why don't you reset the permissions and then try, since it seems like you already guess that it is? Use free Permissions Reset2 app and you won't screw anything up like someone might be able to in Terminal. It's even easier than BatChmod. https://ohanaware.com/permissionsreset/. Very helpful App.

 

I can't seem to reproduce this behaviour You didn't say what error you got exactly, but I'm not getting any at all.
What I did notice on my Mac Intel running Sonoma, but I guess it must be doing (or rather not doing) it on other systems, is that the SNPID number doesn't change accordingly in the SNPID utilities window unless you hit "Refresh Libs" as it does elsewhere. This is a very minor bug (first one to come to my attention ), that I'll fix in a future update.
Any other info you could give me would be helpful.

 

Action:
Load library
Change SNIPD and press "just change SNIPD"
get this: https://ibb.co/QY94SdT

Original SNIPD was 3 chars so wanted to just change that for safety

 

Last edited: Nov 26, 2023

KLU will detect duplicate SNPIDs and not duplicate them, so if it didn't report a problem with the original library SNPID, there was no need to replace it.
I'm really not sure where your problem comes from. You could try temporarily installing the library on your start-up drive, in the Users/Shared/ folder where they are often stored by default, and try to install it there. If it installs OK, the problem is on your drive, if not, it's the library…
You can always un-install it with KLU and install it elsewhere after.

 

Hello,
First of all thank you to have created this wonderfull tool that helped me so much in the past. Today I tried to install some new libraries.
Everything went well. Everything is ok in KLU but not appearing in Kontakt 7 library. Cf attached pictures





So I tried with the add_library terminal command. here is for one the error "sed: first RE may not be empty" twice then everything run ok.

here the process :

sed: first RE may not be empty

sed: first RE may not be empty

Password:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<ProductHints spec="1.0.9">

<Product version="1">

<Name>Scarbee Vintage Keys</Name>

<RegKey>Scarbee Vintage Keys</RegKey>

<Company>Native Instruments GmbH</Company>

<Type>Content</Type>

<PoweredBy>Kontakt</PoweredBy>

<Icon>kontakt</Icon>

<Visibility>1</Visibility>

<AuthSystem>RAS2</AuthSystem>

<SNPID>H124</SNPID>

<ProductSpecific>

<HU>6C70AC13E02414D1A552685A1301D859</HU>

<JDX>023733942B73318EAEAD914E3981EC68BE72519A2F5738F828A6A028C4E1DBAC</JDX>

<Visibility type="Number">3</Visibility>

</ProductSpecific>

</Product>

</ProductHints>

{

AuthSystem = RAS2;

ContentDir = "Crucial X9:Kontakt:Scarbee Vintage Keys:";

HU = 6C70AC13E02414D1A552685A1301D859;

JDX = 023733942B73318EAEAD914E3981EC68BE72519A2F5738F828A6A028C4E1DBAC;

Name = "Scarbee Vintage Keys";

RegKey = "Scarbee Vintage Keys";

SNPID = H124;

Visibility = 3;

}


Have fun!

Press Enter to continue...


Can you help on this ? I don't understand why they don't appear where as scarbee Bass is ok as all the sessions guitarist ones and Chris Heinz are ok. Thank you !

 

Thanks. I don't know how I missed your v1..But I will look forward to trying this out.

 

Errrrr maybe, maybe not ! I have no idea what I'm looking at ! Your "attached pictures are not showing. What terminal command ? What is producing the SED error ?

 

Hello

Yes sorry for that. I have noticed that images where missing but I could not edit anymore my post yesterday.

• here are the links of the images :

KLU screen 1 : https://ibb.co/PTH4fdN
KLU Screen 2 : https://ibb.co/yhNTjd1

• The command "add_library" is from the folder Kontakt Libray Tools (there is the KLU inside but I am not sure it comes form you : https://ibb.co/sJpfsrK

Il will add the code lines at the end of this text.

• Interesting : I Noticed that there is no plist files for the missing libraries under /library/preferences : https://ibb.co/vvMgRTm

• here is the lines code from this command :

#!/bin/bash
function folder_dialog()
{
local result=$(osascript << EOT
tell application "Finder"
activate
set fpath to POSIX path of (choose folder)
return fpath
end tell
EOT)
echo "$result"
}
# Ask for folder
lib=$(folder_dialog)
if [ ! -d "$lib" ]; then
echo " Invalid Kontakt library path"
read -p " Press Enter to continue..."
exit 1
fi
# Path must begin with "/Volumes"
if [[ "$lib" != /Volumes/* ]]; then
vol=`ls -l /Volumes | grep ' -> /' | awk '{$1=""; $2=""; $3=""; $4=""; $5=""; $6=""; $7=""; $8=""; print $0}' | awk '{$1=$1};1'`
vol=${vol/ -> \//}
lib=/Volumes/$vol$lib
fi
xml=/var/tmp/kontaktLibraryHints.xml
find "$lib" -iname "*.nicnt" -o -iname "*_info.nkx" -type f | while read file
do
# Extract library version (`.nicnt` only)
cver=
if [[ "$file" = *.nicnt ]]; then
cver=`dd skip=66 count=10 bs=1 if="$file" 2> /dev/null | sed 's/\x00//g'`
echo $cver | grep '\d\.\d\.\d' > /dev/null
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
cver=`dd skip=66 count=6 bs=1 if="$file" 2> /dev/null | sed 's/\x00//g'`
echo $cver | grep '\d\.\d' > /dev/null
fi
[ $? -ne 0 ] && cver=
else
# Skip `_info.nkx` if `.nicnt` is present
ldir=`dirname "$file"`
hasnicnt=`ls "$ldir" | grep -i '.nicnt' | wc -l`
if [ $hasnicnt -ne 0 ]; then
continue
fi
fi
# Extract library installation hints XML tree
# and remove old `.plist` and `.xml` (if present) while getting its name
awk '/<ProductHints[ >]/, $NF ~ /<\/ProductHints>/' "$file" | LC_ALL=C sed 's/<\/ProductHints>.*/<\/ProductHints>/' | xmllint --format --recover --encode "UTF-8" - > "$xml"
name=$(xmllint --xpath "string(//Name)" "$xml")
regkey=$(xmllint --xpath "string(//RegKey)" "$xml")
plist="/Library/Preferences/com.native-instruments.$regkey.plist"
xmldist="/Library/Application Support/Native Instruments/Service Center/$name.xml"
# Check for bad `.nicnt` (improperly hand-made, unofficial)
grep -i '<HU>' "$xml" > /dev/null
nohu=$?
grep -i '<JDX>' "$xml" > /dev/null
nojdx=$?
grep -i '<ProductSpecific>' "$xml" > /dev/null
nops=$?
# These encryption keys fool Kontakt into believing
# that library is legit
if [ $nohu -ne 0 ] && [ $nojdx -ne 0 ]; then
cp "$xml" "$xml.tmp"
if [ $nops -ne 0 ]; then
cat "$xml.tmp" | sed 's/<\/SNPID>/<\/SNPID>| <ProductSpecific>| <HU>6C70AC13E02414D1A552685A1301D859<\/HU>| <JDX>023733942B73318EAEAD914E3981EC68BE72519A2F5738F828A6A028C4E1DBAC<\/JDX>| <Visibility type="Number">3<\/Visibility>| <\/ProductSpecific>/' | tr '|' '\n' > "$xml"
else
cat "$xml.tmp" | sed 's/ <Visibility type="Number">/ <HU>6C70AC13E02414D1A552685A1301D859<\/HU>| <JDX>023733942B73318EAEAD914E3981EC68BE72519A2F5738F828A6A028C4E1DBAC<\/JDX>| <Visibility type="Number">/' | tr '|' '\n' > "$xml"
fi
rm -f "$xml.tmp"
fi
# Integrate into Service Center
sudo mkdir -p "/Library/Application Support/Native Instruments/Service Center"
sudo chmod 755 "/Library/Application Support/Native Instruments/Service Center"
sudo cp "$xml" "$xmldist"
sudo chmod 755 "$xmldist"
# Set `ContentDir`
sudo rm -f "$plist"
ContentDir=$(echo `dirname "$file"` | tr /
ContentDir=${ContentDir//::/:}
ContentDir=${ContentDir//::/:}
sudo defaults write "$plist" ContentDir "${ContentDir#:*:}:"
# Obtain rest of parameters from extracted XML
for key in RegKey SNPID Name HU JDX UPID AuthSystem ; do
val=$(xmllint --xpath "string(//$key)" "$xml")
if [[ "$val" ]]
then
sudo defaults write "$plist" $key "$val"
fi
done
# Write `ContentVersion`
if [ "$cver" != "" ]; then
sudo defaults write "$plist" ContentVersion $cver
fi
# Get `Visibility`
vis=$(xmllint --xpath "string(//ProductSpecific/Visibility)" "$xml")
sudo defaults write "$plist" Visibility -int $vis
# Review
cat "$xml"
defaults read "$plist"
rm -f "$xml"
echo
done
echo " Have fun! "
read -p " Press Enter to continue..."

config :
macbook pro M1 pro
Logic pro x 10.8
Kontakt 7.7.1


Thank you,
Lil

 

Last edited: Nov 29, 2023

I am not responsible for what is in that folder, it's not from me but from "HCISO". The KLU 1.0.4 in there should not be used by ANYBODY ! It's buggy and is not even the last release of KLU 1 ! If you are going to use KLU, use the one posted here exclusively, unless specifically posted by ME. So before we start peeling plists and XML files, start by removing by the System Preferences plist and the service center XML file and eventually the user plist if there is one (your screen shot doesn't say), then try a new clean install with the KLU posted at the top of this thread. You can report back then. At least I'll have some idea of what you've done… OK ?

 

do we have a windows version of this?

 

@WasaBi76:

Scarbee Vintage keys is an Official NI library and, the genuine NICNT file, has SNPID 422.
The NICNT also includes much more infos than a third party library and does contain the (embedded) walpaper.
You can't substitute NICNT files from official libraries.
BTW: RuTracker does have the right library...

 

He made it for MacOS only, and it seems that he doesn't intend to make a Windows version.

 

I have a library installed that I can't seem to change the name of, or anything of that nature. In the image below, it's the library in the middle "Kontakt". The library works fine, but if I add a bunch of other libraries I'll forget what that one is really called. I used KLU 1.0.4 first and that's what installed it, now I'm using the latest. I can't delete it or update it it seems. I am a n00b, so I'm probably missing something.




In the image below, I have two libraries showing in KLU at the bottom. I want to keep the library named "Frozen Piano". I want to delete the "Herman_Samples_Frozen_Piano library.



Thank you for this awesome tool!

 

Hi there!

I'm new on Macos and found this toold to load my Kontakt libraries but I'm finding it a bit complicated to make it work.

On Windows I used a tool where I told the external SSD where I have all my libraries and it automatically load all of them on Kontakt, but don't know how to do that here. Need to be done one by one?

When I launch the 2.0 Klu version I receive a prompt Window saying I don't have a Service Center folder amd that is going to be created, but I can't find anything but the NICNT tool to make libraries one by one as I understand.

Thanks in advance and sorry for asking but I'm totally lost here.

 

Thank you very much for your work. It is really a great tool!!.

Regards