How to install "X-Custom" instruments?

**mvnorden** · 09-28-2005, 06:24 AM

Extra "X-custom" instruments can be downloaded from the Garritan site. But, once downloaded they just appear on the desktop in a folder and can not be loaded in the Kontakt player. How do I make them appear when clicking the "load" button ?
Thanks, Maarten

**Tom Hopkins** · 10-05-2005, 08:01 PM

You must move the X-Custom folder to the Instruments folder inside the GPO Library folder. It will then appear in the load button.

Having said that, I don't recommend using the X-Custom instruments at present because there are new issues with the latest version of the player that will only be resolved by changes to the instrument programming or changes to the player (this last part is why I responded to an already answered thread.)

Tom

**Edi** · 10-08-2005, 12:14 PM

Originally Posted by Tom Hopkins

You must move the X-Custom folder to the Instruments folder inside the GPO Library folder. It will then appear in the load button.

Having said that, I don't recommend using the X-Custom instruments at present because there are new issues with the latest version of the player that will only be resolved by changes to the instrument programming or changes to the player (this last part is why I responded to an already answered thread.)

Tom

Could you give me a reference for your other response mentioned here in parenthesis? I am not able to find it by "search".

Thanks,

Ed

**Tom Hopkins** · 10-10-2005, 01:32 AM

Originally Posted by Edi

Could you give me a reference for your other response mentioned here in parenthesis? I am not able to find it by "search".

Thanks,

Ed

I guess my wording was a bit too ambiguous. I was referring to the message above that says: "This message has been deleted by mvnorden. Reason: question answered." So, this is the "already answered" thread.

**Edi** · 10-10-2005, 11:48 AM

Originally Posted by Tom Hopkins

You must move the X-Custom folder to the Instruments folder inside the GPO Library folder. It will then appear in the load button.

Having said that, I don't recommend using the X-Custom instruments at present because there are new issues with the latest version of the player that will only be resolved by changes to the instrument programming or changes to the player (this last part is why I responded to an already answered thread.)

Tom

Does anyone have an easy workaround for wind controller...in the meantime?

Ed

**Godfrey** · 10-10-2005, 02:56 PM

Originally Posted by Edi

Does anyone have an easy workaround for wind controller...in the meantime?

Workaround for which problem?

**Edi** · 10-11-2005, 01:10 PM

Originally Posted by Godfrey

Workaround for which problem?

The problem I quoted from Tom, namely, that the X-custom instruments are not recommended until fixed.

I do know that I could use the regular instruments but not so conveniently...and then when I go back to the x-custom files I will have to edit everything.

Ed

**Godfrey** · 10-11-2005, 05:12 PM

Ah, the "new issues". That certainly clears things up.

I use X-custom instruments quite a bit, I'm just trying to find out what these issues are so I can be aware of them...

**Edi** · 10-12-2005, 03:58 PM

Originally Posted by Godfrey

Ah, the "new issues". ...I'm just trying to find out what these issues are so I can be aware of them...

Exactly.

Ed

**Godfrey** · 10-13-2005, 08:28 AM

So.... for the time being, I shouldn't use X-Custom instruments -- which are the only ones that respond properly to a wind controller -- because of some mysterious new issues that everybody seems to know about but can't (or won't) identify?

What is this, the Bug Which Must Not Be Named?

The ironic thing is, the clicking and popping which had been my only problem with X-Custom instruments seems to have gone away. So I'll ask again, hoping against hope that someone will actually condescend to answer this time, what are these mysterious "issues" for which the official recommendation is to not use X-Custom until they're fixed?