Can Studio One Toolbox - decode "missing" Kontakt instruments?

[Vocalpoint]

Love this tool for being able to "peer" into a Studio One .song file to see what is going on.

But lets say I have a old .song that had an older version of Kontakt in it - can S1 Toolbox go that extra step and tell me what patch or library was loaded into a missing instance of Kontakt?

VP

 

[Lukas]

Love this tool for being able to "peer" into a Studio One .song file to see what is going on.

Thanks!

But lets say I have a old .song that had an older version of Kontakt in it - can S1 Toolbox go that extra step and tell me what patch or library was loaded into a missing instance of Kontakt?

I would love to implement this in S1Toolbox, but I don't think there is a way to extract the library name or even the preset name from the Kontakt preset chunk stored in the song. I did some research on this a couple of years ago and came to the conclusion that only Kontakt can resolve the library and preset data. The way Kontakt stores this data is not really transparent.

 

[Vocalpoint]

Thanks Lukas - just thought I would ask

Cheers

VP

 

[TDF1981]

Love this tool for being able to "peer" into a Studio One .song file to see what is going on.

But lets say I have a old .song that had an older version of Kontakt in it - can S1 Toolbox go that extra step and tell me what patch or library was loaded into a missing instance of Kontakt?

VP

I had that problem months ago when my Kontakt 7 scrambled my libraries. As far as I remember when you open the Kontakt instances it will show somewhere in a very tiny red font the library it was trying to load. That’s how I could recreate the settings.

 

[Vocalpoint]

I had that problem months ago when my Kontakt 7 scrambled my libraries. As far as I remember when you open the Kontakt instances it will show somewhere in a very tiny red font the library it was trying to load. That’s how I could recreate the settings.

If only this were true. All I ever see was Plugin Missing! (In Red). Never tells anything about the patch.

Oh well - maybe someday.

VP

 

[lokeyfly]

Until that improvement comes along VP, one thing, going forward you could try or consider.

I know this doesn't fix anything in the past for you, but in sharing how I handle multiple Kontakt versions on my system are, that I name which Kontakt version I'm using on that track.
For example they would look like:
K6-Grandeur-Vienna Piano
K6-Una Corda-Felt
K7-Straylight-Whistle
etc.
Typically, I avoid K7, only sometimes I need to open K7 instrumemts to use them. If the same items are available in K6, I'll use K6, or K5.

If such lost association to Kontakt occurs, there's a lead to what is used, right from the name.
This naming convention doesn't end with Kontakt.
Other instruments follow the same version such as:
D3-xxxxx-xxxxxx (Dune 3)
GRig6-xxxx-xxxxx (Guitar Rig 6)
Pig5-Pad-myworldJT (Pigments 5)
Etc.
Maybe helps, until then.
Of course, store your patches to the instrument, but with the names given as above, you can keep all your Kontakt patches stored together. The patch names refer to which one was used. .