Kontakt 5 sadness opening existing project after clean install of Win 8

This is why I'm too afraid to upgrade. You just never know what kind of horrors await you because of some configuration or settings or other that got annihilated during the process, usually because you didn't save everything you should have.

Forgot to add that the Kontakt re-install was also not an upgrade.  I had to install Komplete 8 Ultimate all over again due to the clean install I did on going to Windows 8.  It did give me an option to keep apps and file, but I never trusted the OS upgrade route - always have done clean installs.

So, twas a surprise - will have all of the project instances of Kontakt's multi-racks fixed up sometime today.

Bob Bone

I actually had ZERO trouble with the complete re-installation of Komplete 8 Ultimate.

I have another program that keeps individual settings from inserted plugs all nicely saved within each snapshot created, so I wasn't worried about Sonar having any issue with that.

If there were settings problems, they would also occur just going from one project to the next, or even just re-opening the same project.  So again I was not worried there.

Perhaps I should have explicitly saved the multi-rack within Kontakt after building it in Sonar, as it is probably more complicated as settings and such than Sonar was designed for.  It's one thing to save a plus preset and volume, but a far different creature indeed to expect it to save internal product-specific functions and routings and such.

I am just now sitting down to rebuild the projects containing multi-rack instances of Kontakt, and this time, I will save each as it is built.  I expect this will protect me in the future.  Should have thought of it earlier, but since Sonar was happily loading everything up for me I didn't expect any trouble.  I suppose this means it is the re-install of Kontakt that somehow interfered with Sonar's ability to load the prior information - perhaps because of different Registry identifiers and such.

Even so, in the future I should only have to reload each project-specific multi-rack, rather than having to rebuild each whole rack.

Bob Bone

I was referring to a product I use for gigging, called Forte - from Brainspawn.

It is a VST host wrapper program that is phenomenal at building soft synth racks, then allowing layering of any combination of sounds from any number of the loaded synths, then lets you save a snapshot (preset) for any such combination.  When you save the snapshot, it captures all of the settings for each sound/preset from each loaded synth, for instant recall during live performance.  You can even tell it only to reload samples if the instrument has changed, so that for Kontakt 5, if I have a piano loaded and one preset uses it and the next does not, but the one after does again, it will not have to reload any samples, so the preset changes are instant.  FURTHER, any modules not used for any given preset (muted) are swapped out of memory, so there is no huge CPU load even with 15-20 synths in a rack.

For Kontakt, there have been other threads about folks building and saving all kinds of output routings, but I just load up the instruments into a multi rack and then use the output section's batch function to clear all the output channels and recreate them as 1 per loaded instrument.  I believe if I then save my multi rack, I can always just load it again if I have to do a future install of Kontakt again.

I will look for one of the other threads - within the last couple of months or so, just have to find it.

I will post again if I locate it, 

Bob Bone