Dorico 3 Elements doesn't recognize Kontakt 5 or 6

alindsay55661 · September 9, 2019, 9:38pm

PaulWalmsley:

alindsay55661:

For your information, here is the latest diagnostic report after a fresh install: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AkJKS0bhzKxZrXWCIORUHJqvKvb8?e=UwwlDf

I’ve just worked through the process of removing the v3 audio engine configuration data in order to see what I had to do to get Kontakt 6 loaded. Please try the following to see if it works for you:

Ensure Dorico and the audio engine aren’t running

Open %APPDATA%\Steinberg in Explorer and rename VSTAudioEngine3_64 to something like VSTAudioEngine3_64.saved (so that later you can copy any other changes from your whitelist file)

run Dorico. It will re-initialise the audio engine directory, and if you had an whitelist file for Dorico 2 then it will migrate that

Dorico should now have initialised, but it won’t pick up Kontakt 5 or 6 yet because the plugin path hasn’t yet been set, so do this:
4. Create a new empty project
5. Do Preferences > Play > VST Plugin Paths…
6. Add the location of Kontakt, eg for me it’s C:\Program Files\Native Instruments\VSTPlugins 64 bit
7. Close and restart Dorico

Dorico now shows ‘Kontakt’ (6) and ‘Kontakt 5 16 out’. It isn’t necessary to add ‘Kontakt’ to the whitelist as it’s already in our internal whitelist.

Sorry Paul, no dice for me on this.