Kontakt Compatibility

[vobo momo]

I love love love this resource.
For so many reasons.
I love how the libraries are not bloated with process heavy plugins or exhaustive collections 95% of which will never see the light of day.

Its a real shame that so much of the stuff is made in new Kontakt – I cant open anything past Kotakt 5 or 6 (player)
Is there a way round this?

Im kinda done giving money to NI

V

[bo din]

What are you using, Kontakt 4 ?

[m fb]

If you haven’t figured it out yet, the answer is, unfortunately, basically “no”. Newer versions of Kontakt can open up libraries made with older versions, but there is no way of opening up a new library with an older Kontakt.

It sort of has to be that way – if the new version of Kontakt has a new kind of filter or effect or something, it’s not possible
for the old version (which doesn’t have that filter or effect) to open the NKI properly. However, it’s a shame Kontakt doesn’t have an “save minimal compatibility version” or something that saves sample and group mapping and loop points and even envelopes in a fashion compatible with say Kontakt 2, that almost everyone could open, and that’s the most tedious part of recreating the NKI by hand in an older version. I guess NI would rather have us shell out for the new Kontakt!

[Sid]

Hi Vobo!
Thanks for your comments. As you know, Pianobook is not just a resource, it is a community. As such, you can help us by picking an instrument you particularly like in Kontakt, and translate it into a free format such as DecentSampler or SFZ. Then upload it back to the community.

If everyone did just one translation, we would quickly have free open versions of all the instruments (we need about 300 done).

Can you help out?

[indigocotton]

How simple is it to convert an instrument from Kontakt to DecentSampler ?

[Sid]

Not gonna lie. I have converted several Kontakt instrumets to SFZ and DecentSampler by hand. It is time consuming (so pick one you really love).
If you have Kontakt 6, there is this LUA script that makes it easier:
For SFZ
https://gist.github.com/dhilowitz/4af789fd36e8a9f8b6b8764ad658828e
For DecentSampler
https://gist.github.com/dhilowitz/98f46b22f38d96f8a818e7fa62874c57

First thing to do is to find an SFZ or DecentSampler instrument that is similar to the one you want to convert so you have a template.
Here is more info:
Using the LUA script:

By Hand:

The community thanks you!

[nimbo stratus]

Hi,

thank you, do you know how to handle the open/close etc here in the 48279_UilleannPipes_KelanRooney_KONTAKT here on Piano Book?

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