OT - opening kits with Battery

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 9:32 pm

Instead of dealing with NI's site, I'll post this question here.

I recently loaded Komplete 2 on my laptop. I loaded the sample libraries on the internal hard drive, choosing not to use an external drive. This is just as an experiment, to see if I can get away without dragging an external drive around.

Anyway, so I've got the Battery library loaded on the Powerbook. When I drop Battery on a midi track in Live, it opens up. But then on Battery, when I try to load a kit, I have to tell the computer where the files are located. When I point to computer to where the library is located I can see it, but it is shaded out and I cannot select it. The file name that I cannot select is: Battery Library.dmg

If I go and click my way to the files on the drive itself I can open it up and see all of the patches there, seemingly ready to go.

Anyone know what to do?

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:05 pm

aren't .dmg files a compressed format? Maybe it has to be unpacked somehow?

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Sat Aug 13, 2005 11:36 pm

Yeah, it seems like it's compressed. When I fished around for it in my hard drive it seemed like I uncompressed it when I found it.

Hmmmmm...

ben_blue · Post by **ben_blue** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:04 pm

are you talking about B2's preferences, the field for LIBRARY PATH?

if so try opening B2 in standalone and changing that preference.

Fingers · Post by **Fingers** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:29 pm

A .dmg is a disk image file. The easiest way to use it like this would be to double-click it before you fire up battery (or after, it shouldn't really matter). This will mount the image on your desktop as if it was an external disk and let you get at all the files in it from the finder or from inside battery.

Edit: That would be the quickest way, but best would be to mount it on your desktop once and copy all the files on it to a library folder that you can point battery at once and for all. Saves all that tiresome double-clicking.

summersc2002 · Post by **summersc2002** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 5:33 pm

It might be your library path in battery 2 isnt set up. Drop battery on a midi track, go to file , and then options, and make sure your library path is correct.

chris

Captain Screwbarb · Post by **Captain Screwbarb** » Sun Aug 14, 2005 6:21 pm

Just mount the disc image and copy the contents into a folder which you find conveniant. Assuming the dmg file contaains the Battery kits. I think they have a .kit extension.