Over the years I’ve acquired quite a few sample libraries. I have a lot of libraries that are powered by Kontakt. Some come with built-in-libraries that you can load into Kontakt. Many don’t.
What I’ve found is that you really need to get to know all your libraries well and remember what you have and where in order to take advantage of them. And as your collection of libraries grows, that becomes harder and harder to keep track of.
Kontakt’s database is pretty good, but again limited to libraries that support it. However, Kontakt has a wonderful feature – the Quick-Load menu, which is completely customizable.
I’ve found it was well worth my time to spend a day or so building my custom Quick-Load menu system. Finding any sound from any library is a snap thanks to my well organized Quick-Load menus. Whenever I get a new sample library, I spend a few minutes adding its instruments & multis to my Quick-Load menu – those extra few minutes save me countless minutes later.
Here’s a screen-shot of my Quick-Load menu system. This works well for me. To keep things ordered the way I want them I use numbers in front of the folder names. I like to have things organized in score order with synths & other at the end. If you like it feel free to copy this structure and add your own instruments. Or make your own that suites your needs. Whatever you do, I think it’s wroth the effort and saves a lot of time when working. I never have to dig around for instruments, I know exactly where to go find them.
Kontakt 5 – Quick-Load
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