copy protected .nki work around

Poltergeist · Post by **Poltergeist** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:04 pm

I was playing with the Sampler Demo again, to see if I still wanted to ask for it for xmas from my wife. When I tried to load a sample set from the Synthetic Drums 2 library it wouldn't load it. Copy Protection. So....I thought what if I opened it in my copy of Kontact 1.5 and then save the set as a different name, or even the same name into a new folder.

WORKS !

This means that as long as you have a copy of Kontakt 1.5 or better and a little bit of free time, you can convert your library to work with Sampler.

Enjoy.

dmacintyre · Post by **dmacintyre** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:15 pm

Still says copy protected in Kontakt 2 for me.

D.

Poltergeist · Post by **Poltergeist** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:23 pm

I just did it to 5 more drum kits from synthetic Drums 2 and had no problems.

This is exactly what i did.

Open Kontakt 1.5
Load drum kit
Go to Load/Save menu
Chose Save
Save Patch + Samples
Save to desktop

Go to Live and point browser to the desktop
double click saved drum kit

Works like a charm.

Are you sure your saving Patch + Samples? Maybe it was a fix applyed to Kontakt 2?

dmacintyre · Post by **dmacintyre** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:47 pm

OK - I take it back it is working. Don't know what happened before but I was pretty much doing everything as you describe. No worries - it's fine now. Man, I love Sampler!

Thanks!

D.

SubLik · Post by **SubLik** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:21 pm

I seem to be able to drop the kit I want from Synthetic Drums 2 into 'Sampler's' folder it loads up the samples ready in the folder complete with the name of the patch & then, open the kit in Sampler. Doesn't even seem to be bothered by the copy protection.

Poltergeist · Post by **Poltergeist** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:50 pm

The samples that will NOT work are ones like the sample set that came with kontakt and kompakt, the ones that have the actual samples in a archive of some sort. Like kompaktlib.1. Any other patch that is copy protected seems to work on my end.

bonomius · Post by **bonomius** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 4:30 pm

I've read somewhere that a guy was able to convert some files
from the kontakt2 library to giga format, with an app called extreme converter
or similar. Btw i think that if they are encrypted by N.I. there's a reason...

Poltergeist · Post by **Poltergeist** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:40 am

bonomius wrote:I've read somewhere that a guy was able to convert some files
from the kontakt2 library to giga format, with an app called extreme converter
or similar. Btw i think that if they are encrypted by N.I. there's a reason...

So you have to use the samples in thier sampler? Thats lame, if I shell out money for a sample collection then I will use it as a please. I don't like Kontakt and I'm taking my samples elsewhere.

so

DeadlyKungFu · Post by **DeadlyKungFu** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:42 am

so they map correctly and all that?

Poltergeist · Post by **Poltergeist** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:13 am

Yeah they map out fine.

oddeo · Post by **oddeo** » Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:56 pm

This work around does not seem to work for me.

My Kontakt 2 only gives me the option to save patch, but not patch + samples.

Does anyone know a work around for that?

I think Sampler is much more intuitive than Kontakt, but I cannot justify buying it if I cannot use all 4 of my NI Library's.

Any other suggestions?

Any thoughts are appreciated!

corygilbert · Post by **corygilbert** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 1:05 am

Kinda OT, but using Kontakt to map samples of large folders with lots of samples, is a great way to map all of those samples to individual keys automatically. Which is a pain in the ass is Sampler.
I've got some folders of akai samples but they're not mapped.
I can just import the samples into Kontakt, save the patch as something that Sampler likes and voila' quick drum mapping.