Right-click on “Kontakt 5 5.1.0 Installer Mac.mpkg” and choose “Show Package Contents”.ģ.
Just login and type Kontakt in the search field, then find “KONTAKT 5.1.0 Mac OS X Update”.Ģ. Or, if you own Kontakt 5 then you should be able to download an older version here: HD>Library>Application Support>Native Instruments>Kontakt 4 If you have Kontakt 4 then you can find a working “kconvert.bundle” file in: This is the file that does the converting and in later Kontakt versions it contains a bug. In order to enable the EXS24 to Kontakt conversion feature again you will need an older “kconvert.bundle” file. Unfortunately, I have read that due to a bug in a key software component this feature broke in about Kontakt version 5.2 and it will crash K5 and/or your DAW if you try to import EXS files in K5.2 to 5.8.įortunately there is still a way (Mac instructions only): It still usually requires further careful tweaking to ensure the sound is faithful to the original EXS version. I’ve had some good results doing this, although it’s not always a completely perfect conversion.
Kontakt 5 (and K4) will import EXS instruments (after a few hoops have been jumped through – see below). It helps if you have both versions so you can manually copy the settings with both open side-by-side. Kontakt 6 to Kontakt 5 requires a manual build as there is no conversion software (that I know of) that can do this automatically.