A Simple Way to Use Kontakt (Updated for 2024 and Beyond)

[@corrosive135]

Very helpful when setting up a template. Thank you

[@ChristopherSiu]

You're very welcome!

[@НикитаГолубятников-с3с]

thanks, it was very helpful I got konktakt recently and i was struggling a bit in terms of interface.

[@joyofpiano_p]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@ChristopherSiu]

My pleasure!

[@jasonmeyermusic5639]

Thanx Chris !

[@jasonmeyermusic5639]

ohhhhh!

[@mattwallis1893]

As a Logic user and new to Kontakt, this was very helpful, thanks.

[@ChristopherSiu]

Very welcome!

[@MsTessG]

Great, and so helpful

[@ChristopherSiu]

Glad you think so!

[@dennisodonnell9607]

Just noticed that you can’t add a second plugin or instrument anymore, it just replaces it …. what’s going on ?

[@WayneDawkinsThePartyMan]

Exactly

[@Doty6String]

but then you have to route the audio also to a different track? this seems ok till you have to mix something

[@aldenhill]

Yeah, I used to do it that way. But I found the only way to put effects on individual patches (and not affect others) is to use a separate Kontakt instance for each patch.

[@AlonsoJoaquinComposer]

Actually you can route audio to your DAWs mixer or even use the internal kontakt buses to mix them separately

[@aldenhill]

Wait really?? I’ll have to look into this.

[@micwarren21]

How do you go to the explorer view when you want to open a Kontakt instrument that just plays in the kontakt player?

[@ChristopherSiu]

At the top under 'View', just click 'rack view' and then X out of the browser on the top right to see the new view. :)

[@micwarren21]

@@ChristopherSiu thanks, it was driving me crazy, I was avoiding using seven because I could not find that view where I can go to different drives where I had other applications that worked in the Kontakt player. The manual. What a concept!

[@rogermathews145]

You have not shown how to access non NKS libraries such as 8Dio. This could be a whole new video.

[@vinzsaint]

do you save more ram opening kontakt in multi or is it the same thing in both cases?

[@ChristopherSiu]

Not entirely sure, both seem to perform similarly for me.

[@vinzsaint]

@@ChristopherSiu anyway the searching tool is very useful, unfortunally it doesn't work for the library added manually as well

[@AlonsoJoaquinComposer]

Each kontakt instance will use some ram, but you gain better cpu performance due to different instances being processed in different cpu cores

[@grailgnosticism2342]

I ha e seen somewhere that Kontakt 2 libraries for example cannot be played on K 7 and upwards, is this true? A dumb question, but i can't find the answer , help!

[@ChristopherSiu]

For some libraries, yes it's true! They can only be used on a certain version of Kontakt and higher.

[@AlonsoJoaquinComposer]

Not true, its the other way around

[@grailgnosticism2342]

@@AlonsoJoaquinComposer I will buy full License of K 7 anyway; and upgrade Reson so i can load K 7 Player since it is a VST3; The download version seems to be cheaper than the boxed version of K 5 i paid years ago ... Kontak feels a bit chunky on my version of Reason, that is version 9.5 Or is it ti e to change DAWs, Reason is good for electronic music but is not so good for classical cinematic music composition ... for example, you need to change octaves quickly for orchestration, and Reason is a bit yuk for this. i want a key shortcut ... Want a video discussing which DAW is best for classical or art music

[@AlonsoJoaquinComposer]

@@grailgnosticism2342 Get K6 if you can, unless you are trying to run a K7 library. Most run on K6, K7 sucks and has lots of stability issues, it runs poorly overall. Stay away from it if possible! As for DAWs, there's no 1 best daw for virtual orchestration. Most of the normal DAWs (Not FlStudio for instance) are pretty much the same, with some pros and some cons as expected. That said, most pros use Cubase, Studio One and Reaper. Logic maybe if you are on a mac. I use Reaper, since you can customize everything in it I was able to create and shape it for my own desired workflow. It depends on what you want, some people are just fine for the most part with the way Cubase or S1 behave out of the box and that works for them