Previewing Kontakt instruments

Neither did I. This is pretty handy...thanks for posting.

Nope, I didn't know that......Thanks Bit!!

I believe it does fill your hard drive.

I don't think so. They are co-located with the rest of the instrument, like other support files. They aren't very big, though. typically 0.5 MB to 2 MB in size.
 
NI is typically close-lipped about the actual details of the standard (I couldn't find any links to the SDK online), but I checked my NKS-compliant libraries and the preview samples appear to be in files having a .nicnt (Native Instrument Content?) extension.
 
BTW, here's a list of vendors that support the standard. It's a who's who of the major players, even if they haven't all converted all of their products yet.

Downloaded and installed.  NA is asking for serial number to install preview files.  Anybody help on this?  I thought it was free to use.  Thx.

Here's another cool tip that hadn't occurred to me before: moving your non-NI-registered libraries into the Factory Content folder so you can load everything from the Libraries tab.

Personally, I never use the Libraries tab because too many of my favorites aren't there. But it's a good tip if you do spend most of your time on the Libraries tab.
 
Now, I know what you're thinking: I don't want to move my libraries around because it'll break existing projects. No problem - just create a symbolic link. Your projects will still find the libraries because they haven't moved. But they'll also show up on the Libraries tab.
 
Here's how I added all my Indiginus libraries to the Libraries tab. These are DOS commands you type into a command line window. In this example, my libraries are all on my E: drive under the top-level folder "Libs".
 
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cd \libs\kontakt factory library\instruments
mklink /D Indiginus e:\libs\indiginus
 
This works by fooling Kontakt into thinking my Indiginus instruments are part of the factory content. Note that in my case I had to use a symbolic, rather than hard, link like I would if I'd wanted to point to a separate disk volume. Use /H instead of /D to point to an instrument that's on a different drive than your factory content.

I don't have the keyboard but I got Komplete Kontrol in my account. I think it was because I have had Komplete 8 or 9.

I haven't delved into Komplete Kontrol yet. I really need to set aside an hour or two. 
 
My main beef with Kontakt at the minute is that when you navigate through the folders of an instrument in the library browser (not the directory tree browser) and then you close the VST window and open it later, your position wasn't saved and everything's closed up again. You have to navigate all the way back to where you were. I hate it when plugins don't remember their state when you close the window. Valhalla's reverbs are guilty of this as well - if you're browsing presets using the next/previous buttons and then close the window, it doesn't save where you were.

Learn 2 things today - woot!  Thanks Bit

Thanks bit. Cool tip.