Roland S-330/S-550 samples and (multiple versions of) Kontakt

[revi]

I used to be able to easily import old Roland S-series samples into Kontakt. There's a utility called sdisk for creating an ".out" file image of a diskette which Kontakt would (or used to) read.

I don't seem to be able to figure out how to do this with Kontakt 6 (though I believe it worked with Kontakt 5).

Long story short, since this is about DP, can one run two versions of Kontakt without screwing something up?

Per usual, thanks in advance for your help.

[revi]

Well, me being the completely impatient and potentially (occasionally, hopefully rarely) a tad reckless person...

Using the NI updater-app, Kontakt 5 was an installable option (i.e., as well as Kontakt 6) so...I installed it.

Sure as heck, you can import those ".out" files in Kontakt 5...so NI must have dropped that functionality (which is a tad irksome in my opinion).

While only needing Kontakt 5 for that purpose, I was curious/worried about how things would fare with DP.

As far as I can tell, all is well: DP inspected Kontakt 5 and now shows "Kontakt" (i.e., v.6) as well as "Kontakt 5" in the "Instruments" menu under Projects.

I'm going to have to write to NI about this: sure, those legacy libraries and file formats are out-dated...but there's occasionally rather handy stuff there.

[mikehalloran]

As long as it's Kontakt 5.6.3, you're good. The 32 bit version of Kontakt 5 can still be downloaded — in case one is still running DP 7.24, I suppose. It will not work in DP 10. These are the Mac versions.

Kontakt 5 is 32/64 bit for Windows only.