Given that certain VSTs only work inside of Kontakt as a player, and given that DAWs load Kontakt and not the software being triggered, it gets pretty confusing in a hurry. Presumably the issue is in mixing up those 2. The one in the project is a version 5, but there is a newer one (standalone) that I have as well. I come to find I now have at least 3 versions of Kontakt on my machine.

So it even more of a puzzlement why installing 64bit MX created this error. I don't see it anywhere in its 3rd party DLL / VST folder. It is likely I'm wrong in saying some version of Kontakt comes with Mixcraft. I don't mean to criticize a product I've loved for years - and would still heartily recommend - but this simply should not have happened and to be honest I have very little interest in spending the time it will take to recover all this - given how busy I am with my two jobs and other things. I doubt I even remember which of the several trumpets I used and why. So I'd literally be starting from step 1 - hoping I remember what I set and why. I didn't keep notes on what settings I used because I figured the templates were my notes. Still - it's a LOT of work to get it all back to how I had it. (EDIT - I was wrong the Kontakt 5 version that is there DOES show Chris Hein but it doesn't show the instrument I assigned to that track) But Kontakt 6 (which is now simply called 'Kontakt') does. The version of Kontakt 5 that I get now after this new install doesn't even show Chris Hein Horns. I fear there is no real solution other than throwing away the work I've done with the horns and starting over. In some sense this may be a Kontakt issue I suppose. I'm very disappointed - I get such little time as it is to use this and I've been set back so far it's made it rather 'unfun'. I think it's a matter of somehow getting back to the version of Kontakt 5 I was using instead of the one that apparently comes with Mixcraft. I typed 'all is not lost' when I meant 'all is NOW lost'.

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