Organizing your Third-party Kontakt Libraries

Russell Landwehr · Post by **Russell Landwehr** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 5:48 am

I was becoming frustrated with trying to load Sound Libraries for Kontakt. You know, the ones that don't pay Native Instruments so they can be included in the "Instruments" Pane. So I reached out to some friends who pointed me toward a quick load function in Kontakt. It is very simple and now I have all my sound libraries in one place and organized into categories.

Here is a video that explains how to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr9maN- ... e=youtu.be

Cheers
Russell Landwehr

mojobone · Post by **mojobone** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 3:51 am

Russell, you're an answer to a prayer. I just downloaded some Kirk Hunter demo strings, then decided almost immediately to buy, but when I deleted the demo file and replaced it with KH's "all strings" file, Kontakt no longer recognized the library. In fact, I was about to start a thread about putting sample libraries on a dedicated internal drive on OS 10+ tower Mac Pros.

Russell Landwehr · Post by **Russell Landwehr** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 5:59 am

Organizing within Kontakt in this manner is certainly a workflow helper.

I think you should start your thread about a dedicated. I have thoughts about that that I would like to share.

Kolstad · Post by **Kolstad** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:13 am

That was awesome, Russell. I've got so many of these, and this is a huge help to dig in!
Out of sight out of mind, but not anymore. Kontakt can do so much!

Russell Landwehr · Post by **Russell Landwehr** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:42 am

Very cool, K.
My buddy Owen Chaim was the first one to turn me on to this.
"Out of sight out of mind" is exactly correct. I feel like I wasn't fully utilizing stuff because I forgot it was there.
BTW... with this feature you can create a folder hierarchy for some killer organization.

cassmcentee · Post by **cassmcentee** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 9:59 am

Good post Russell!
I just learned to use the "Quick" last week after downloading a bunch of stuff...
Had to google the process

stevebarden · Post by **stevebarden** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 10:37 am

Very useful! I have so many folders of libraries that I'll never use. It's nice to be able to create a 'favorites' file structure.

Thanks for sharing.

garywhite · Post by **garywhite** » Fri Dec 04, 2015 11:54 am

Doing the quickload file structure is so laborious, but absolutely worth it to make your workflow happen. An absolute MUST for your 3rd party libs. Take a day out from creativity, and get your tech sorted! Nice one Russell!

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