Hi folks,
I have no idea why this has me so stumped. I must be over-looking something.

I wanted to use KLU v2.4 to add artwork to some instruments in Kontakt. But I can't for the life of me figure out how to load the image into KLU. It won't even let me edit the text on the text-based filler image.

If I drag the image on, it get an error about dropping a file and not a folder (presumably the drag/drop is only for instrument library folders).

There is no button to add or select an image.

What am I not getting here?

To make matters worse, I ended up hitting the Save button and now I have the text based image showing up in Kontakt, but no way to get rid of that (it's too darn ugly for my liking). I have added an `MST_artwork.png` file to the usual location for such in /Users/Shared/NI Resources/image ...` but that's had no effect either.

This is what I see:

 

you want it to be wallpaper.png inside the library folder. If you really screw up you can always hit remove this library, and reload it into KLU again.

I did an easy one. Open KLU. Select Library, by selecting the top level folder containing everything else. With a wallpaper.png in that folder, it will automatically use that one. If it does not have an NICNT file, it will ask if you want to create one. Let it create one. Your wallpaper will show up instead, where you now have that blue rectangle with the title next to the save/lock icon.

That's it.

 

Last edited: Jul 20, 2025

There's an upper limit on the number of libraries using Kontakt 8.7.1 Portable from vkDanilov. I found it. My voluminous collection swamped Kontakt Library Manager 8.7.0. I split the collection into two different folders on the same drive. I uninstalled and then reinstalled Kontakt Portable, then rescanned. Full success. Easy peasy. Thanks for your help, good people.