NKS versions of Valhalla plugins

[aMUSEd]

Hi I made NKS versions of all the Valhalla plugins and assisted another member of the NI forum (Cooner) to begin converting and tagging factory presets using the templates - so far all plugins have controller mappings and database integration files and Plate and VVV also have presets.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/hckelya4q00r ... NTCza?dl=0

[EvilDragon]

It'd be really great to have official NKS'd versions!

[aMUSEd]

Sure but in the meantime at least these enable it to be accessible and controllable from the keyboard. Plus we have presets for 2 already so all that 'official' integration would add is moving stuff to the factory tab which isn't essential.

[MFXxx]

It'd be really great to have official NKS'd versions!

Absolutely...

Sure but in the meantime at least these enable it to be accessible and controllable from the keyboard. Plus we have presets for 2 already so all that 'official' integration would add is moving stuff to the factory tab which isn't essential.

in the meantime thank you for sharing your work.

[aMUSEd]

No problem, btw there are presets for most of them there now too - group effort from NI forumites

tbh this pretty much means we have everything 'official' NKS versions would have anyway - except they in the User tab not the Factory tab but who cares really?

Browser thumbnails and database category integration files are also in the repository in their own subfolders.

[yellowmix]

Very cool! Thanks for all the hard work!

[MFXxx]

Can I ask where to place the files (Im sure Ill figure it out but Im taking the easy route)

THanks

[aMUSEd]

Sorry, there's an info.txt file in the root of the Dropbox KK folder but I forgot you can't browse to it from the Valhalla folder

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hpb5s3g52kjyeil/Info.txt?dl=1

[MFXxx]

Sorry, there's an info.txt file in the root of the Dropbox KK folder but I forgot you can't browse to it from the Valhalla folder

https://www.dropbox.com/s/hpb5s3g52kjyeil/Info.txt?dl=1

Thank you bud, got it

Think Ive decoded this correctly

Make sure the Komplete Kontrol browser is closed before doing this.



Put image thumbnail files in:


\Users\Shared\NI Resources\image\synthmaker\synthname (Mac)


\Users\Public\Documents\NI Resources\image\synthmaker\synthname (Windows)



Database (category and colour info) files go in:



\Users\Shared\NI Resources\dist_database\synthmaker\synthname (Mac)



\Users\Public\Documents\NI Resources\dist_database\synthmaker\synthname (Windows)




The NKS templates go in:



\Users\username\Documents\Native Instruments\User Content\synthname (Mac)

\Documents/Native Instruments/User Content\synthname (Windows)



Then reopen KK.

If nothing showing rescan the user database.


For Previews you need to add the folder named “.previews” inside the folder containing the specific bank of nksf presets they are for.

You will need to turn on hidden files to see them though as any folder with a dot in front is designated an ‘invisible’ folder on Mac and I think on Windows too.




Take a look at the folder structure in the NI Resources folders if there are any problems, it’s usually easy to work out the cause - make sure filenames and folder names are lower case, follow exactly the name of the instrument as it appears in KK (including spaces) and don’t use dots or other non alphanumerics (eg @) in folder names (the vast majority of problems are due to not being very thorough about exactly matching the plugin name or company name)


NB additional info on locations, particularly for KK2 owners

For Komplete Kontrol 2 with the second screen you need to play around a bit with the folder locations.

To show just in the browser and software app third party plugin images and database entries tend to go in a shared folder by company name.

However we found on the NI forum that to get plugin images into the second browser they need to go in the root of the images folder under the plugin name - easiest way on Mac to do this is to create a symlink to the plugin named folder that’s inside the company named folder and put this in the main images/dist_database folder, on Windows you can just copy the folder and paste it into the image/database folder root

ie to get stuff in the browser/software host the paths are:



Put image thumbnail files in:

\Users\Shared\NI Resources\image\synthmaker\synthname (Mac)



\Users\Public\Documents\NI Resources\image\synthmaker\synthname (Windows)



Database (category and colour info) files go in:



\Users\Shared\NI Resources\dist_database\synthmaker\synthname (Mac)



\Users\Public\Documents\NI Resources\dist_database\synthmaker\synthname (Windows)



but to get image thumbnails and also the correct colour database info to show in the second screen in plugin view the path is:



Put image thumbnail files in:


\Users\Shared\NI Resources\image\synthname (Mac)



\Users\Public\Documents\NI Resources\image\synthname (Windows)



Database (category and colour info) files go in:



\Users\Shared\NI Resources\dist_database\synthname (Mac)



\Users\Public\Documents\NI Resources\dist_database\synthname (Windows)



NI need to correct this legacy 'bug' but for now this workaround works




A few notes on making your own




If you want to make your own thumbnails they should conform to the following
specs

MST_artwork.png - 134x66


MST_plugin.png - 165x100


VB_artwork.png - 96x47


O
SO_logo.png - 417x65


VB_logo.png - 279x47



MST_logo.png - 240x196



all 72pix dpi

.meta files and .json files can just be copied from an existing folder and edited in a text editor
(use a proper one, not something like Mac Textedit that messes with syntax)

.meta file syntax looks like this:


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no" ?>
<resource version="1.0.0.0">
<vendor>Synthmaker</vendor>
<name>Synthname</name>
<type>image</type>
</resource>

.json category syntax looks like this:

{
"Vendor" : “Synthmaker”,
"Product" : “Synthname”,
"CategoryDB" :
[
{
"FileType" : "Instruments",
"Categories" :
[
"Synthesizers"
]
}
]
}


Just replace with the names you want

[aMUSEd]

Yeah it's a bit long but the second part is more aimed at guiding people who want to 'roll their own' so you can ignore it (and also there are no previews for fx so ignore the stuff about those too). Hope you got them working.