Path from Cubase to Kontakt library on external hard drive

Cubase
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Hello, I reinstalled Cubase 14 on my new Mac. My Native Instrument sound banks are installed on an external hard drive. How do I configure the path from Cubase so that my plug-ins appear in Kontakt 8? Thank you.

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Hi,

You are mixing up the terminology.

Kontakt is a plug-in. Kontakt cannot show plug-ins. Kontakt shows the Sound Banks/Libraries.

So, open NI Kontakt (as a plug-in) in Cubase. And within Kontakt, load the Sound Banks/Libraries from the external drive.

I prefer to load the Sound Banks/Libraries in the standalone version for the very first time. Just to avoid some possible licensing issues or unexpected dialogs and windows. Once the libraries appear in the standalone version, they also appear in the plug-in.

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Open Native Access and relocate (repair) the path to your libraries.

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Hi, Thank you for your response.

Yes, Iā€™ve already reopened Kontakt in standalone mode to rescan the sound banks and set the contents on my external hard drive in Native Access. But when I open Kontakt in Cubase, it still doesnā€™t display the banks.

But thereā€™s something I donā€™t quite understand. In my case, where Iā€™m moving to a new computer, is installing Kontakt from Native Access enough to recover the contents of my plugins installed on my hard drive, or does it also require reinstalling the plug-ins one by one?

(Itā€™s normal that there is a red error message, my hard drive is not connected at the moment.)

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Hi,

I expect, by ā€œplug-insā€, you mean the ā€œSound Librariesā€ here. No, you donā€™t have to reinstall the Sound Libraries. If they are on the external drive already, you can just point Kontakt to where to find it.

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Yes for ā€œSound Librariesā€, sorry. But how can I point kontakt to my external hard drive?

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Hi,

This looks like a good tutorial. For the 3rd party libraries, watch this video.

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Okey thatā€™s the solution. Itā€™s a little bit different on the version 3 of Native Acess. We had to go to :

Support > Add Product Content > Chose a location

Thanks a lot for your help and time

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Sorry but Iā€™m continuing the same question but with the content of the Groove Agent and Halion Sonic plug-ins. How do I configure the path to the sound banks?

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Hi,

In the Steinberg Library Manager.