Kontakt 5 Tutorial Series Pt 1 - Quickload Menu - Adding and Customising

[@tomcardy1]

So helpful you're a legend

[@TT88TT]

Great! Instant-to-the-point, no-nonsense tutorial - clear, smooth & fast. Excellent work man!

[@ChuckLarish]

Just got Komplete and your vids are way better than sifting through the manuals. (Thank you for purchasing...) Subscribed.

[@roderickmack5922]

Great tip! This will be perfect for those 3rd party kontakt instruments that don't have a library interface.

[@Iamcluster12]

Awesome video, gonna spend the next few hours sorting out my Kontakt libraries and get this quickload going.

[@anastasianikiforova5738]

Thank you!!!! So useful especially for those of us with slow to understand technical things.

[@duophon17]

Really well explained! Thank you very much. Stay tuned!

[@justogetarep]

Very useful Great series This is one of my only AUs since Logic x Ive not used kontakt a great deal up to now But i will now Thanks a lot Danny

[@aleatoriac7356]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge of Kontakt. Really well done videos

[@AndrewCowen1962]

Brilliant... Thanks.... This will save me hours and make composing so much more fun....

[@masterstouchusj9]

Thanks. I got my Komplete 9 for Christmas. This is great Help!

[@Adarkjet]

Your videos are always good. Thanks.

[@cetinkarahan9581]

You share very useful ways with us. Thank you

[@Richard_P_James]

WOW! this is the single most useful tutorial. And it's exactly what I was thinking about today. Nice one Danny :-)

[@novasco55]

I have to agree !!!!

[@RockOnVideosNYC]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and speeding up my understanding of Kontakt. Unless your already understand the program as a musician these features go unnoticed and I'd rather be playing music than reading a 300 page manual. Thanks for the info Bill

[@Manas-co8wl]

This is good for non-library instruments. Thanks

[@gjsingh]

Thank you so much sir... Very helpful video.... I feel bad for the people who actually disliked the video.....

[@ceounicom]

Good stuff. I've just been getting familiarized w. Kontakt and this is a great meta-tip on workflow.

[@funk4ever]

Thanks. Very cool.

[@GuaGuaVin]

Thank you for helping to ease the learning curve, it really helped!!!

[@2047Musicvisions]

Really really good tutorial - Thank you so much !

[@montejanobass]

Nice a lot of time saving doing this. Thanks.

[@ROBOG33Kmusic]

This is a great tutorial - thanks!

[@garymarkharper]

Great! Ask and you shall receive! Thanks Danny.

[@Jeffjudek]

Such a great tip! Many Thanks, Danny!

[@markrobinson8254]

thanks Danny good information presented in a easy logical progression keep doing tutorials please

[@dburnmusic]

Again... thank you! The man!

[@boothamilton9850]

Nice job, Danny.

[@SoundsFromSound]

Great video series! Thanks for sharing these with the community! Keep up the great work!

[@gsrobertson]

That was incredibly helpful! Thanks so much Danny.

[@teenanguyen217]

you are a fantastic teacher!!!

[@frankieraffaele9012]

you are so awesome dude, thanks a bunch for making these great vids.

[@RochD2]

excellent video. thanks for the help!

[@NajeeCasey]

very very appreciated my friend thank you

[@hostnik777]

Super helpful, thanks!

[@EmilBringsli]

Currently waiting for my copy of Komplete 9. This is really handy, as my problem with complete is that there's so much to learn!

[@Mista808]

Howcome when I follow your lead I click on the "BAND FOLDER" and instead of having several sections like 1. Horns 2. Acoustic Pianos 3. Electric Pianos 4. Organ etc. they're all in one folder. It looks like even though I have the Kontakt Factory Library that you have way more sounds and folders than what I have? I'm currently on Kontakt 5. I only have one piano and that's the EP piano. Plz help!

[@Mentalarray]

Many thanks for the tut...Just got boxed version of komplete 9 today after millions of hours installing So pleased only great problem now is choosing a sound from the hundreds of synths/sounds/sample LOL:)

[@MatrixxSoundlab]

This was SUPER helpful!!

[@mikep6967]

Brilliant. This helps a lot!!!

[@CutmanPlays]

Wow, this was awesome! Great video :D

[@mikado2005]

Cheers mate! Really helpful!

[@YaronKeren]

Fantastic! thank you!

[@issiewizzie]

thanks for the video

[@ajiyahya]

Thank you very much.

[@ricardocosta8757]

Great one Danny. Waiting the the next episode... When does the Black Book Lessons return? Regards

[@marcmeup1]

Nice one Danny. Always look forward to the weekend DJL tutorials! How would you add .nki files from disparate 3rd party sample packs? Is it worth putting them all into one folder for easy access from Kontakt's finder window? Their location shouldn't affect the sample referencing should it? Thanx.

[@tregenza77]

cheers dude, very helpful.

[@arvo56]

Very Helpful!

[@tam_ryan1036]

Massively helpful mate. Thank you! :-)

[@francissreckofabian01]

Now that's really useful. Thanks. Looks like I better tidy up Kontakt.

[@ryanwintersmusic]

This tip has made navigating round my sounds a whole lot faster! Thank you! However one thing that doesn't work is if I hit the next arrow to select the next sound it selects the next instrument in its original folder (the one on my hard drive) not whats in the bank I've created inside Quickload. You did it at 2:30 in the video, so there must be a way to do it... Any ideas?

[@MauricioPazz]

Thank you so much!

[@hezylevy]

thanks for sharing!

[@musicprotutorials]

[@splukoes]

I agree with everyone who says "very helpful, thank you".

[@quentinveldstra87]

Thank you!

[@hazybrain7]

Cheers Danny

[@ruigrguerreiro]

I'd love to see more Black Book lessons.. Anytime!

[@erikmushnik]

Thanks mang

[@eafortson]

Mad helpful.

[@DharamDeepYoga]

Brilliant!

[@only4posting]

cool video. your got kontakt 9 ultimate, or you just purchased the upgrade? I wish I had enough money to get the ultimate. razor must generate the best vocoder sounds I ever heard. and there are many other great synths and effects. sure, buying each product separately costs 6 times more. but it's still 900 euros, nonetheless. Danny, today I was just thinking about Mediate. any news? are they still releasing their stuff? that track with that square bass sounded really good.

[@TerenceKearns]

I've been using kontakt for years and I only just now found out about this. I have thousands of nki files that aren't available in the library

[@hattersley9181]

Can I plug an acoustic guitar in and use the session guitarist rather than using a keyboard or is this all it does.

[@EMarSounds]

thanks for the tips, got most of my libraries loaded in quick view, do you need to drop those multi folders into the multi tab in quick view? some of those files won;t open in the instruments tab in quick view.

[@HunterSThompson191]

Can you save the 'quick-load' menu as a preset, so you can later access the folders you've created on, say, a different session. Cheers! Brandon

[@ZenstepLabs]

Might be worth adding a little side note to this vid that .nkm extensions "multiple encoded nki files" can only be loaded via the "multi" section of quick load.. kind of obvious i guess but i had to do a double take:)

[@Thrilla1981]

Thank U!!

[@MerodMixing]

Is the the full paid version or the one that comes with komplete select?

[@10jpmorgan]

How do you add vibrato to solo trumpet or violin tracks, for example, in Kontakt 5? I've learned how to do that by adding automation lanes under the track with the instruments included in ProTools' Expand 2. But when I click on Plug-in automation to add a vibrato for an instrument in Kontakt 5, I only see "Master Bypass", and underneath, a list going from #000 to #511. Which one of these numbers is the Mod Wheel, the vibrato depth, and the vibrato width? And how do you program the keyswitching AFTER you've recorded a track? I've never found any video about how to utilize these these IMPORTANT and NECESSARY controls with virtual instruments in Kontakt 5. Please make one as soon as possible!

[@TheMattJames]

mate i dont have the add library button?! I only have manage libraries, when i locate a library i downloaded it says it is read-only and cannot be edited. then if i try click on a sound i downloaded it says "This Instrument Belongs To A Library That Is Currently Not Installed"

[@kpax9852]

What about the banks section would that be for your .wav samples in the quick load window?

[@musicprotutorials]

The black book lessons take a lot of work because of the syncing of the cam on the book and there didn't seem to be enough enthusiasm coming back for me to justify the investment of time. If plenty of people want to see more i'll consider scheduling some in.

[@alanrodoficial]

Hello I made my own bank of samples but my problem is when I play them in my electric drums my sounds are choppy and when playing them on my midi keyboard they ring out completely cause im holding down the key. help please

[@christophercharleston2792]

I have Kontakt. In simplest form, how do I load in a sample, and then manipulate it to more of my "own" sound. If that makes sense. I haven't seen many videos explaining this. Thanks!

[@SoundsFromSound]

Chris Charleston Hi Chris. All you have to do is drag and drop any sample you want into a "new instrument" in Kontakt. You can decide later what range/keys you want to trigger the sample. As far as manipulating the sample, you can click the wrench icon and go under the hood to add modulation, effects, time stretch, and more. I'm working on a Kontakt tutorial series which I plan on finishing later this month - it will cover topics including basic sample manipulating and sound design. Good luck and have fun mangling sounds!

[@mumra100]

What a life saver..

[@Pir44tti]

Thanks. man! :)

[@kushbluntsmokerkush2941]

its telling me your new library have to be added before using this instrument ?? any help

[@jankocollyer6037]

hey bro pls help when i go on kontakt 5 and go to the libraries there is notin there

[@TheRockyCrowe]

Question for anyone willing to answer a noob: I've been messing around with sound production and have found I have a really good ear and interest in creating music. Seeing that NI is like the Adobe of digital music, I've been considering buying Kontakt 5. But what I want to know is if NI software is compatible with non-NI VST effects and sounds. I have many free percussions, synths, bass, etc. I've gotten from places like DSK, I also have vst's I've purchased from EastWest sounds and Impact - will NI accept these? Or do all the libraries in Kontakt have to be .Nav??

[@孙悟穷]

Nice tutorial! I have a question: I wanna buy some Native Instruments library, but I don't have Midi, can I use them with my PC keyboard or mouse?

[@Noldy__]

Yeah

[@DJmicaiah]

question bro, can I move around and customize quick load instruments like if I wanted to COMBINE Heavycity Evolve Mutations and Damage (there is like 3 different instruments but they have some of the same subfolders) can I combine them in the quick load shortcut function? I have noticed that if I combine different instruments in the same folder (say instrument A and instrument B) and try to scroll (arrow) through to the next instrument (moving from instrument A to B) it will just cycle back to the beginning of instruments in instrument A. Does this make sense?

[@velimustafa]

Hi just watch your video gr8!!! Got a question? I have just bought Komplete Maschine Studio and Komplete Ultimate Crossgrade when I opened Kontakt 5 I have a message should i say yes or no to the question " the following libraries come with a pre-built patch database : ( theres a list of them which I think are from ultimate ) at the bottom of the page it asks do you want to import them in to Kontakts database??? its all knew stuff to me and need to say yes or no to the question please please please can you let me know??? veli

[@NeilWall]

veli mustafa Say yes

[@jepihe7795]

Hello, I just bought an Akai EWI USB but the sax sound is terrible. I use the standard aria software on a windows 7 platform.So bought new Software kontakt 5 (has been successfully installed), but have a small problem when a play the EWI I have a piano sound true the sax sound and I must blow very hard on the EWI.Can you help? Thanks

[@peterweis8921]

Look up Sample Modeling T-Sax. It is pretty dope with Akai EWI USB

[@10jpmorgan]

I just bought Komplete 10, and installed and activated it. I'm using ProTools 10.3.2, Windows 7, I-5 core with 8 GB RAM. After the installation, I got a pop-up titled "Move Unauthorized Plug-ins" that listed all of Komplete 10's AAX plug-ins, and stated: "ProTools could not load the following plug-ins either because no valid authorization could be found, the iLok key was not connected, or the plug-in was damaged." My iLok key was connected, and since the installation went smoothly, I'm assuming no plug-in was damaged. So, there is some kind of problem about a "valid authorization" not being found. In any case, Komplete 10's sample libraries do not appear as possible inserts in a track in a ProTools session. What can I do?

[@10jpmorgan]

@Iam_R.Antonia Beats Well, thanks to some good advice I received, I found out that Komplete 10's AAX plug-ins won't work with ProTools version 10.3.2. When the kind salesman at the store where I purchased Komplete 10 updated my ProTools to version 10.3.9, the plug-ins began to work. But still, my computer locks up during editing, so I probably need to upgrade to ProTools 11. But I've also read complaints from users who say their ProTools 11 won't load Native Instruments plug-ins. Thanks for sending me the Kontakt 5 tutorial. I'm trying to learn how to use virtual instruments, and I'm having trouble finding information on how to program automation such as vibrato in a track. Can you recommend any Kontakt tutorials in that direction?

[@NikkiDinthehouse]

Here's a question - I recently had to move my K9U Libraries to a new external drive. When doing this and even after reloading them into the Kontakt player, my aliases have disappeared in my QuickLoad folders. The folder structures still exist but there is nothing in the folder. I know that the Quickload folder is located in the applicationssupport folder in the users library folder and it shoes the aliases. Is there an easy way to reimport that back in so I don't have to set up my quickload patches all over again?

[@krissinistar6959]

Sexy

[@jessejames5081]

Im lost from the getgo, partly because im using pc and he gives instructions for mac

[@happystudio1]

hi guys...can somebody please help me with this question please...i would like to know how to open a sample in kontakt 4...lets say a vengeance sample...and i want that sample to have the same duration for example in miliseconds across my whole keyboard...ive noticed that when i open my vengeance samples in kontakt 4 that they speed up the higher i go from bass to treble...low to high whatever you want to call it...isnt it possible to have the same articulation or speed no matter which key i press?is it something to do with key follow or key track or something along those lines??please help thankyou

[@franciscopizzaro6361]

when I click library nothing comes up

[@maxplastic1942]

What I don't understand is how Kontakt 5 can have such a rubbish manual when there is so much to do on it. The videos are all very well but a lot of the time the functionality of the interface shown differs from mine and the function is not available. No explanation for that. I try to work in studio one 3 and previously, with the plugins like presence , sound fonts, synths etc in the browser it was so simple to drag in dozens of instruments on to separate tracks and be playing or recording in minutes. Routing Kontakt 5 to play on separate tracks is a nightmare that I haven't been able to solve in spite of videos showing how its done. Just doesn't work on my version. Cant imagine how it could be used for a live performance. Reminds me of Cubase...complete over kill in complexity.

[@BobertsChicken]

Adding library? What???

[@jirkadolezal8127]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@Nostalgia404]

why did they make it so fucking hard to load 3rd party in kontakt?its like they want to be pirated

[@ceounicom]

I've just gotten started w/ kontakt (after decade+ using hardware modules) and find it absurdly simple compared to other samplers/softsynths. you ever try converting gigs of EMU or Roland patches over to Akai, then have to remap every single instrument?.... seriously. I think the problem with some libraries is that they were written years ago, and as the program evolves, they don't align perfectly with the new architecture.

[@Zoolookuk]

It's not - buy, download, activate... done.

[@connectedtv_off]

on Mac, this is very bad !!!!!!! why ? the quick load creates shortcut link file in the quickload folder...and guess what ? the shorcut file is much bigger than the original preset file ! incredible isnt it? conclusion : when you have 200Go of Kontakt sounds, if you put everything in the quickload menu, then, the size of the folder conaining the shortcuts is : 25Go !!!!!!!!!! only of shorcuts file !!!!!! bravo mac !!!!! on pc, a shorcut file is 1ko !!!!!! on mac, it could reach 2Mo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (cause it include the f***g icon !!!! inside a shorcut !!!! bad point for mac !!!

[@JohnJones-tx6rt]

God's sake. Listen, I've got a degree in Chemistry and an MA in philosophy. I'm not stupid. WHY don't you slow down mate, we all know you can do this stuff but crikey, why so rushed? are you showing off or just not bothered about teaching? Do it again and this time, SLOW DOWN.

[@psunie]

Excellent! Thank you

[@jaythansparksmusic]

ow do you UNDO an accidental delete in the Quickload area...??? I was attempting to delete a library I added in a NEW FOLDER. In that folder were about 25 other libraries that I already placed several months ago. I 'thought' I highlighted said library but in fact, I highlighted the actual main folder when I hit delete. Now, I don't remember the libraries nor are they in my Quickload. So, is there a way to recover those added libraries or do I just to give them up and start over....??? thanks, and sorry for the long explanation.