Can't get Kontakt 5 Player w/ Session Horns to work

Hey, all:

I bought NI Session Horns after seeing a couple of demos of the sounds and really liking them. At the same time I installed the free Kontakt 5 player.

I won't go through everything I've already done trying to get the damned thing to work with Sonar X2 Producer, but it hasn't been pleasant, and I still can't seem to get it to work, even playing back a MIDI stream from horn parts that have already been recorded.

I add it to my list of tracks as a soft synth; direct the output of the MIDI track to that synth, etc. - and . . . NOTHING!

I've been using Battery for a couple of years now, with zero problems, but I can't get this to work. 

Anybody have any basic setup hints that I can try?

Thanks,

- DR

According to the Session Horns documentation - it is access through the performance section WITHIN KONTAKT PLAYER or within Kontakt.

Here is the NI link to the page with a tutorial video you can watch (link is in upper left of page):

http://www.native-instrum...hestral/session-horns/

And, down at the bottom of that page, there is also a link to download the Session Horns user manual, which is where I read about it living within Kontakt and/or Kontakt Player.

I would suggest you get it working properly outside of Sonar, starting with the user manual, and then following along with the tutorial video, and THEN I would look to use it within Sonar.

Hope any of the above helps, 

Bob Bone

@DR

Can you please post back with results?  And, if it is indeed fixed, please update the subject line for your initial post for the thread, and add the word 'Solved' to it.  It helps folks not have to go into threads thinking there are things still needing resolution and is kind of a nice guy/gal etiquette thing.  If you pull up the initial post for the thread, you will see Message Options in the middle right of the page, and one of those options is to edit the message, at which point you can change the subject line.

Thanks, I am hoping this will work for you now, 

Bob Bone

I use the free Kontakt 5 player with Abbey Road Modern drummer and based on what you've said so far, it sounds like you need change the output of the K5 player to your sound card (not to kontakt). 

Split the track if you don't already have the MIDI track and the audio tracks separate (this might not be necessary in X2). The In on the MIDI track should be your MIDI controller (set everything in SONAR and K5 to OMNI for the MIDI channel until you get it working--then you can assign a MIDI channel later).

The Out of your MIDI track should go to the instance of Kontakt you're using. Over to the audio track, the In should be the associated MIDI track, and the Out should be your sound card (or a bus in Sonar if that's what you want).

To troubleshoot, make sure everything works with the K5 player and your horn samples in stand-alone mode first. If that doesn't work, you need to check your hardware settings IN STAND ALONE MODE. I found that I cannot access all of the settings when K5 is a plug-in as I can when it's stand-alone. Make sure you set the sound card and MIDI devices in K5 properly.

Let us know how it goes. 

Old thread alert/off topic, would have been better if you started a new thread rather than piggyback (can host split thread?).
 
Works for me as a plugin in Sonar as well as Kontakt standalone.
So try Kontakt stand alone, if it works I suspect your Kontakt VST DLL is not upgrading for some reason.
You should be running 3.1.0.4 for both versions of Kontakt.
 
Also just by runnning Kontakt standalone first could fix the issue, if you update NI software it's always advisable to run the standalone version straight afterwards before you try the VST's.