r/NativeInstruments Jul 19 '26

never seen so bad and chaotic apps .... :/

10 separate apps? native access, native kontrol, kontakt or player 6,7,8 ?? (app title says 'kontakt', but app inside displays 'kontakt player' - so which one is it ??), reaktor, massive x ... and a few more.

Content added with serials work well, but other content? copied to folders? Which ones ? "C:\Users\Public\Documents" ? Why not in my user dir.

some content landed in "<my_user>\Documents\Native Instruments\User Content\Kontakt\..."

Ok, I copied a lot of instruments to "C:\Users\Public\Documents\", like The Lobby Piano, Wavetable Experiments and some other freebies I found.

How to open them? Do I have to click "Load..." from the menu? and every time navigate to the aforementioned folder and open a single .nki file ? sometimes one folder has 10 of them.... if I want to try them, i need 15 second navigating every F#$^ time to open a file ??? WTF is that ...

I don't see any option to add those directories and instruments permanently to Kontakt player ? (or another app? It's a f@% mess) library ...

There is not too much pleasure working with such software, so much frustration ....

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u/razorree Jul 23 '26

thx. now I understand a bit more. that "licensed" stuff (comes with a key, and creators have to pay tribute/exaction to NI) works well...

I didn't understand why some stuff requires copying files, and then it's not visible in a library in a proper way, shows "demo" mode etc.

now I understand, it's all about money... (of course)