How to find the filepath for a library from another machine?

I'm trying to mirror my folder structure with another composer's computer so that we can open and save projects (within Cubase) seamlessly. Complicating matters is that he's on Mac and I'm on PC, but I've had success with using symlinks, and replicating the filepaths that come up in Kontakt when it's looking for a library. However, some of the libraries don't show a full path in the Content Missing window and only <Library>\Samples\etcetc... so I don't know where to put the symlink.

Is there a way of finding out what the <Library> path is? (other than going back and forth with the composer to get the paths of where all his libraries are stored, which often isn't an option)

Thanks!

 

As far as I know the libraries must not be in the same folder, they just need to be installed on both computers with the same version of kontakt, reaktor and all plugins. Only user wave files should be in the same folder. But you can go to file, export with audio files, or something like that, then maschine exports the project plus a folder with all user wave files. At least within windows environment it works that way. Maybe someone else with both systems can confirm.

Uwe

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Hi, thanks for your reply. We're running Kontakt within Cubase and have the same version & libraries installed, but Kontakt always asks to relink missing files if opening on a computer with a different file structure. The goal is to be able to seamlessly open a project on both computers without any need for relinking or searching for missing files. The only way to do that (as far as I know) is with symlinks to mirror the exact filepaths between the two machines.

 

I assume this is also using a mixture of Player and non-Player libraries. Right? In that case, Kontakt 6.6 introduced a feature that should help greatly!

Please read this post of mine from VI-Control.

Of course, both of you need to be on K6.6 for it to work, and libraries need to be symlinked and subfoldered in exactly the same way. And it would require resaving the project at least once so that it finds the new paths and remembers them. But from there on, you should be home free.

 

Wow that's a cool feature

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Hi ED thanks for the link. Yes that feature seems very useful. Can I just clarify what you mean by Player and non-Player libraries? Is this libraries that don't and do require the full version of Kontakt, or libraries that are and aren't activated through NA?

In terms of the original reason for posting, it would still be useful to see the exact path that Kontakt is looking in for a library instead of what it provides currently, and I'm sure it hasn't always been that way? For the (admittedly fringe) case of needing to seamlessly open a project without having access to the other composer's computer (to check paths) then the only solution is seemingly to guess paths whilst repeatedly opening and closing that project!

 

Correct! Non-Player libraries aren't activated in any way, require the full version of Kontakt, and are not shown on Libraries tab.

In the "Missing Content" dialog, you can see the path to each missing sample, and you can likely deduce the library name from those paths listed. Feel free to expand the "Path" column to as wide as you want it, then scroll horizontally to read it out. Admittedly this could be improved.