KSD file format?

Does anybody have documentation on the KSD file format? I've been toying with the idea of creating a program that can read the file format, and I'm not super keen on the idea of reverse-engineering the format.

 

Unfortunately, there's never been any official documentation on the format... so it's up for reverse-engineering!

 

Somehow I knew that was going to be the answer.

 

Good luck, if you decide to reverse it! I can only imagine how many useful tools that could result in!

 

There is one hemi-semi-related post on stackoverflow about NI SoundShell here, which was/is the Maschine format and I guess might share some similarities.
The Kore database is a metakit database. I wrote a hacky python script to backup the tags from the database - in fact to write them into my Cubase sqlite database, so that at least is a possiblity. I'm afraid I couldn't compile the source for a newer version of python, so I used the version available I guess on the site linked above in Python 2.4. It was a pain. I probably have some links about the python implementation of that if you want. Of course, taking that approach is quite limiting, but I've no idea how you would approach reverse engineering the ksd format.

If you make progress, please let us know

 

Hi There, I know this is an old thread but: has there been any progress on this?
More importantly now: is there any documentation on .nmsv, .nabs or .nfm8 files available?

 

No. I wouldn't expect it to ever become available.

 

I've made zero progress, too many other things to work on.