Sure, go ahead

 

Hey! Does anyone know why an instrument would become completely "silent" after I "delete all zones with missing samples" in an instrument where I have removed all but the Close" mic samples and have loaded it with those samples? It is playable until I delete the zones with missing samples. Could it have been mapped in such a way that all zones are linked or something like that?

 

Looks like that one only does 1 file at a time?
The instructions were less clear than conNCW which didn't work for me either, but I'm not sure if there's a newer version that what I have. All the KVR links are dead so I used the first one in this thread.

 

yeah, but that's easy to add with something like 'fd', 'find', 'xargs', 'parallel' etc.

Code:

fd -e ncw -j 8 -x ncw-convert {} {.}.wav

-e ncw: find all files with extension ncw
-j8: use 8 threads
-x ncw-convert {} {.}.wav run 'ncw-convert filename.ncw filename.wav' on all found files

 

Has anyone tried shrinking libraries and found all the converted samples (from ncw to wav) are just static noise? It seems to happen mainly for synth presets for me. Why does that happen? I've just had it happen with Emergence's Infinite Upright. The piano samples are ok but all of the others are just noise.

 

Last edited: Jun 5, 2024

ConNCW is by far the best. Some things that can happen are:

- the WAV's Kontakt write are not in standard format, so conNCW gives an error when trying to convert.
This is warned in ConNCW instructions and there's a correctWAV tool to correct it. Although I don't use it, the few times this happens I do it "by hand" with the same Kontakt. But I should learn how to use it
- the samples folder containing the samples in .ncw after extracting is hidden and/or read-only

Never touch the instruments besides the standard GUI controls like the mic section disabling all the mics. You can't even delete any sample since Kontakt v6.6 or so. You can with a library made for previous versions, like Kontakt 5

Rollerball's idea is to replace the samples of the mics you don't use with an empty *.ncw (like a one sample wav/ncw whose value is zero).