D&D to Kontakt

Cubase
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I’ve seen a couple of posts that say you can now directly D&D to Kontakt from MediaBay. I can’t get it to work. Can someone explain the process. My guess is I’m in super stupid mode. But, I can’t seem to work it out.

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Perhaps an ABC step by step of what you are doing now will help people spot whats going wrong for you?

Hippo

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Open Kontakt “always on top”
Open MediaBay
Create an instrument in Kontakt
Drag to the zone page … the + sign appears
Drop
Nuthin

Everywhere else on the interface is the ghost buster sign.

EDIT: I’m dragging .wav files

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Also was able to drag a .wav to the Instrument Navigator.
Double Click opens it as an instrument, but no audio is in the mapping editor or the wave editor

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Try dropping direct to the mapping editor in the new instrument page in kontakt

Hippo

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when I said zone editor, I meant mapping editor … sorry, bad terminology on my part.

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I just DnD the wav to an empty Kontakt. This way it automatically creates an instrument for the wav you DnD.

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When you say to “an empty Kontakt” the only place I can get that work work is the instrument navigator. If you read what I wrote, I said that it creates the instrument, but no wave is loaded.

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This is what I meant…

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I get the ghost buster if I try to drag there

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Huh… thats really weird.

I just tried dragging a sample from mediabay to Kontakt’s mapping editor and it worked fine. Its weird that you get a + sign when dragging to the mapping editor but a “ghost buster” (lol) when you D&D directly to the empty area…

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I just tried it for the first time, and it works both on a blank instrument as well as to the mapping editor.
Sorry I can’t be more helpful.
Are there any preferneces for this?

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Are the .wav files you’ve tried to d’n’d perhaps part of a .vstsound file pack? If so try with an unpacked .wav file.

Kris.

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and weirder still, they drag just fine into Halion.

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no, they are just stand alone .wav files.

EDIT: and of course I was wrong, they were indeed the protected kind of content. So, my original hypothisis of me being an idiot is confirmed. Thanks Krisp for kicking me in that direction.

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Is Cubase running as Administrator on your system?

Try turning that off and then D&D.

This is only relevant for Windows. You can be an admin and run Cubase, but if you run Cubase (or any app) specifically as Administrator, it messes with D&D. This is a security measure in Windows.

Probably a red herring but thought I’d mention it.