You can add portable versions side by side of your current K6 without any issues, no need to delete your current Kontakt !

 

Can confirm with Cubase 13 Pro DAW older projects with Kontakt 7 (Bobdule/Portable) now open with the later Kontakt 8 (Portable) but not sure about other DAWs. I've also uninstalled Kontakt 5 & 6 Portable but not opened any ancient projects yet to test if those now open in K8 but hoping they do.

 

R2R Cleaner, Leaner and Faster
Healthiest of them all...but you need to be understanding why that is

 

Portable. You need to know nothing. Just works. ))

 

wow thats great news then!

thank you so much for the info, as soon as I can I will unistall K7 portable and install the K8 portable and see what happens, I use Cubase so I am pretty confident it should be the same. Thanks again.

Unistalling the portable version: how did you do it? Just manually deleted the folders not needed? I also assume we can leave the folder with the libraries list data...am I right?

 

You're welcome... Well we may possibly do it different but I normally copy the Portable to my D: Drive and the run the installer from there to install the .vst3 onto C: Drive (Default). If a new later version comes out then I uninstall in Windows and then delete Kontakt Portable 7 Folder or leave it there and copy K8 Portable to my D: Drive and install the later .vst3 on C: Drive then do a Library Manager Scan and Save

 

Basically when you are dirty you smell

 

more or less the same

keep in mind that when you delete portable folder you can leave there the folder in which there are the libraries archive file, so you can avoid scanning every time if dont need

 

Is it possible to run Bobdule's Kontakt together with the portable version?

 

Portable 8 vkdanilov works excelent except i cant make it appear the libreries in the kontakt8 browser... cant fix it x_x

 

up until Kontakt 7 (in reaper at least) older sessions with kontakt 5 and 6, you gotta keep them installed because 7 will not open them. has that changed in 8? let's hope. if not, it's like izotope. each new tape plugin they have you gotta keep them all installed to open older sessions.

EDIT: yeah i just read somewhere that cubase and logic allow for a migration. don't know about other daws.

https://support.native-instruments....ExMC41LjEuMTczMDIxMTEzNS4zNS4wLjIwODg0NjQ3MzY.

 

Libraries show up in Kontakt 7 but not in 8 whereas some are missing in both K7 & K8
https://audiosex.pro/threads/librar...whereas-some-are-missing-in-both-k7-k8.77558/

Bob Dule - Kontakt 8.1.0
https://audiosex.pro/threads/bob-dule-kontakt-8-1-0.77585/

 

I'm pretty sure the new browser doesn't work in any portable version. It's a limitation of the portable versions.

 

No it works fine, you have to check a box in the library manager settings, second tab add to nks.

((not that I use the new library view lol)

 

On my "test pc" i have all 3 versions installed .they dont interfer with eachother.

 

its working now x_x idk what happen for real.. but what i do its like a maniac thing...

1:open the portable k8, do the manager thing, and they are registered but not showing at the browser of k8... so i keep closing, opening, opening in the daw, standalone, etc...
in the attemp 5 they started to showing, kinda bug in some way but i close it and then open it in the daw and there was the full recognize o all my libraries...
2: i have a weird problem with MDL tone ultimate heavy drums. i can go through the presets and hear them but if i load them they throw an error which says nki instrument not found, i search it and seems like can work, but no... the same, so i have to load the instruments, not presets, then i can go through presets... this is the only library doin this...

 

How many actually use Kontakt for other things than library playback?
For playback only, R2R's release with Kontakt-player, used with only uncompromissed official libraries doesn't get more stable.
I have both legit NI products mixed with R2R's, don't there is any issues with that any longer?

 

This is adjacient to this thread but can't find anything closer...

I used R2R's latest kontakt 8 release, but have had intermittent demo mode issues. I solve this by deleting the Kontakt 8.json from
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Native Instruments\installed_products and also copy/pasting xml supplied in R2R release. However, this seems to work for a while, but then the problem resurfaces.

I can fix this by replacing native access xml (in R2R instructions), deleting the .json file (mentioned above) and running r2r Keygen.

Is all this because I have Native Access Installed?

If I uninstall Native Access will this solve the issue? (I'm a little reluctant to as I am unsure on the knock-on effect to my legit libs/apps)
. Or is the r2r K8 starting in demo mode due to something else?

It seems to be fine most of the time but the intermittent interruption makes me think it could be NA 'phoning home'...

ideally I'd rather stick with the r2r as reading on this thread the performance of their release is most similar to the legit K8.

Apologies if I'm missing anything and thanks in advance for any insights from you wise people!

 

I dont have any experience with legit kontakt, but I think that this R2R release can be used along with other legit NI software, and it is known that in Kontakt 7 performance in R2R was a bit faster. I am pretty sure you can keep the native access installed if you need.

dont forget that in R2R's release there are detailed infos, I cant check now, but probably you should overvrite the native access file if I am not wrong

 

Thanks. I did overwrite the xml. Done everything in the r2r instructions
it seems to fix it if i run the keygen again, and then the library manager to get the libraries out of demo... its annoying, i must be doing something wrong...