https://daviddas.com — Learn expert tips on organizing and managing your Kontakt library. In this video, we go through my personal process for tagging and folderizing Kontakt libraries on macOS in an easily accessible way. I present the system that has worked best for me while working on my Mac.
This is a new version of previously-published videos. I no longer recommend using Finder aliases, because they are very difficult/impossible to port from computer to computer, which becomes problematic in the case of a hard drive failure. The new method, described in this video, is much more robust.
If you would like to speed up the process of tagging folders, here are some additional tips: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/tag-finder-items-macos-keyboard-shortcuts/
Here is a complete list of the category folders shown in the video:
Ambient, Textures, Rhythmic
Bass
Choir and Voices
Drums and Perc – Acoustic
Drums and Perc – Electronic
Drums and Perc – Ethnic
Drums and Perc – Loops
Drums and Perc – Small Percussion
Ethnic
Guitars
Horns and Brass
Mallets, Toys, Folk Instruments
Misc Faves
NOT CATEGORIZED YET
Orch – Brass
Orch – Mixed Ensemble Collections
Orch – Percussion
Orch – Spitfire and ProjectSAM
Orch – Strings
Orch – Woodwinds
Pianos, Electric Pianos, Keyboards
SFX and Sound Design
Specific Styles or Genres
Synths
Trailer Material
The AppleScript I use (which resizes the window and puts it into column view) is this:
tell application „Finder“
tell front window
if current view ≠ column view then
set current view to column view
end if
end tell
end tell
