There's a lot one can do to manage, edit and generally hack your kontakt libraries and where they appear in the library browser.

Here's my list of tips and various useful Kontakt folder locations for editing

Adding images for 3rd party / custom libraries

C:\Users\Public\Documents\NI Resources\image

- this is where you create folders for MST_artwork.png files which create the tiles for third party libraries in the libraries browser

Registering Libraries

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Native Instruments\Service Center

- this is where you find the NativeAccess.xml file to modify by adding an entry for a library when creating a library via nicnt. Your nicnt however you generate it, needs to have a unique UIPD and SNPID which match the entry in NativeAccess.xml

Adding Snapshots to libraries:

Snapshot locations either:

C:\Users\<YOUR_USER>\Documents\Native Instruments\User Content\Kontakt
OR

C:\Users\<YOUR_USER>\Documents\Native Instruments\User Content

Sometimes presets for libraries need to go in this second location, rather than the snapshot location that opens up from the instrument when you select the wrench icon

And for some libraries (e.g. Sample Logic Arpology) the presets need to go here for kontakt 7:

C:\Users\<YOUR_USER>\Documents\Native Instruments\Kontakt 7\

and here for earlier kontakt versions:

C:\Users\<YOUR_USER>\Documents\Native Instruments\Kontakt

Removing Libraries

If you're on windows, sometimes you may need edit or remove windows registry entries to successfully load up new libraries. This will be found under

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Native Instruments
and
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments

and you might need to remove both entries to remove a library (e.g. before reimporting it).

Tags?

All good. Now the kicker - does anyone know how to remove Kontakt Library Product tags? Where are these stored? Are they hackable?

cheers
f451

 

Last edited: Nov 8, 2024 at 12:11 AM