Kontakt Not Working with Dorico

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I installed Kontakt7 Player and the Jacob Collier Audience Choir. The standalone works fine.
I used the Playback Template and Dorico file from the blog, loaded the Playback Template and made a custom one to include other instruments.
https://blog.dorico.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Jacob-Collier-Audience-Choir.zip

I can’t hear the notes, and when I go to Play, VST and Midi, I see
02 - !! Jacob Collier Audience Choir !!
When I click the “e”, nothing happens.
When I click the down arrow next to the 02 - !! Jacob Collier Audience Choir !!, there is no entry for Kontakt.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Steve

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I may have had this problem earlier with the exact instrument. I’ll check in a couple days.

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Hi @velcro , to me it looks like the JCA Choir is an own plug-in running independently from Kontakt.
Could you please do from Dorico’s menu Help > Create Diagnostic Report and post the corresponding zip file here? Thanks

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The Jacob Collier Audience Choir is a Kontakt plugin. So you need to load Kontakt as the VST-Instrument first. I haven’t used the playback template from the blog, I just load Kontakt itself.

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Now when you click on the “e” it will open the Kontakt player (I have Kontakt 8, but Kontakt 7 behaves the same here) and there you need to select the Choir plugin.

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Now double click on the Choir button on the right hand side of the Kontakt player and you will see this

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You can start writing notes and they will play the Choir sound.

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I’m not seeing Kontact in the pulldown for VST and MIDI.

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I do have Kontakt 7 installed on my Mac.
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Is there something I need to do for Dorico to recognize it?

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Oh, I’m sorry, you are on Mac and I don’t know how to get that together on that system. I avoid Apple completely.

But I’m sure there will be someone who can help you here as well.

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Hi @velcro , that what you see in your second screenshot is the so called standalone player. It is a mini VST host and can load the Kontakt plug-in. By that you can connect your MIDI keyboard and play the Kontakt sound without the need for any DAW or Dorico.
But the actual Kontakt plug-in is found in a different place, namely under
/Macintosh HD/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/VST3 (or in one of the subfolders).
Please have a look if the Kontakt plug-in is installed somewhere in there.
Thanks

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Good news - I can see the Kontakt now.
Bad news - all I did was save the file as a new version (5.1.70) and restart Dorico.
Maybe I had not restarted in a while…?
Thanks for the help!

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Great to hear it is working now, enjoy Dorico and the Jacob Collier choirs.