Migrating Kontakt 4 to Kontakt 5

Hi,

I'm digging out old projects from my HD, hoping to dust them off. However some of them were made using Kontakt player 4. And of course, the Factory Library included in K4. My problem is that I don't have the library anymore and I'm now using the latest version of Kontakt, 5.

So here's my question: is there a way to seamlessly migrate/upgrade the instruments made with K4 to a K5 version?

It's probably one downside with Kontakt, unlike most VSTs. When upgrading from a version to the next one, it is not overwriting the associated DLLs, but creates new ones.


Thanks in advance
J

 

Which DAW are you using?


By the way, you can have Kontakt 4 (Player or regular) installed alongside Kontakt 5 without any problems.

 

Hi,

I've just bought FL 10 producer edition. And I'm running on Win 7 32Bit.

I know you can run several instances of Kontakt, 4 and 5. However, the whole point is to migrate. Otherwise, I'd be dragging Kontakt 4 around. Then when Kontakt 6 is released, I'd have to keep K4 & K5 running. And so and so forth. Pretty much pointless. Not to mention the fact that those babies are very demanding on CPU resources.

Thanks for your reply

 

Kontakt is probably the most CPU efficient big sampler out there.

My suggestion would be installing K4 if you don't have it anymore, opening your projects, saving all Kontakt instances as multis, then replacing those instances with K5 and reloading the multis back in, then resaving the project.

FL doesn't have an easily editable project file format unfortunately. In Reaper, this is as easy as opening the project file in Notepad and text editing the path to another DLL

 

This an issue for every Kontakt owner: the fact that each upgrade has to be loaded separately and exist alongside the previous version. I deliberately have not upgraded from 4 to 5 for this reason – not because of the money. The idea of having multiple versions of the same software strewn across all of my projects is a major deterrent for me. Unfortunately I was forced to download the free Kontakt 5 player to accommodate instruments that simply don’t work on Kontakt 4.

 

I recently had the same problem. What I did was to create the K4 folder in K5 then copy the K4 files to the K5 folder. K5 shows the new folder as part of the library and all the files are playable. I've only converted the most desirable K4 libraries but eventually will get them all into K5.

I was surprised at how easy it is to do this. Note that I did this in the K5 factory default library. I have no idea how to create a library from scratch.

 

hi again.. again

i've already replied twice and twice my reply was removed. for some reason.
so i'll give the short version:
your trick worked, evil. thanks for that.

cheers,
J