TIPS AND TRICKS
How to fix the Kontakt 6 images error
if loading a file on Kontakt, you notice graphic errors, for example in the buttons or menus, like this:
download the following file
and unpack its contents in the "Kontakt" folder, which on Windows is usually found in the following path: "C:\Program Files\Native Instruments\Kontakt 6\Kontakt". For Mac OSX the path is "/Library/Application Support/Native Instruments/Kontakt", within the primary system folder, NOT the user folder.
I solved this problem using XMPlay 3.6.
It's a free audio player that can reproduce MIDI and karaoke files too, using Sound Font 2 (*.sf2) libraries.
An interesting option of XMPlay is that it can use more than one soundbank simultaneously, taking, for example, the piano from a library and the tenor sax from another.
Instructions:
1) Download "XMPlay 3.6" from http://www.un4seen.com/xmplay.html, and "MIDI input plugin" from http://uk.un4seen.com/files/xmp-midi.zip
2) Install it.
3) Unzip the "MIDI input plugin" and put the XMP-MIDI.DLL file in the same directory as (or a sub-directory of) XMPLAY.EXE (usually C:\Programmi\xmplay36 or C:\programmi(x86)\xmplay36).
4) Now you need a good General Midi soundfont (*.sf2). There are many soundfonts freely available on the internet or on peer-to-peer systems.
For example the excellent "SGM-V2.0", avaible at: http://www.geocities.jp/shansoundfont/
Download all 5 parts and double click on "SGM-V2.01.part1.exe" to extract the file "SGM-V2.01.sf2".
Two other free good banks are "Fluid Release 3" http://soundfonts.homemusician.net/collections_soundfonts/fluid_release_3.html and AirFont380 http://www.4shared.com/get/TpQ7z4eY/airfont_380_final.html
You may also buy a soundbank like "Conexant GM500", "SONiVOX GS250", "Colossus 1500" and many others.
4bis) Some soundbanks are in a compressed file.
To unpack *.sfpack files you can use: http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Audio/Other-AUDIO-Tools/SF-Pack.shtml.
To unpack *.SfArc files you can use: http://melodymachine.com/sfark.htm
With XMPlay and MIDI input plugin, from its mixer, you can also transpose midi files, view karaoke window, mute one or more tracks and so on.
