HELP!!! CAN'T GET KONTACT 2 TO WORK IN GARAGE BAND 08

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HELP!!! CAN'T GET KONTACT 2 TO WORK IN GARAGE BAND 08

Hey All,

First time poster here. According to the Kontact 2 manual, it should be stupidly simple to use Kontact 2 in Garage Band 08. Just create a track, go to the "Sound Generator," click on "Kontact 2," and play. Great! Bottom line, I never see "Kontact 2" in the sound generator. I've reinstalled, called both Apple and Native Instruments and no one has any answers.

Has anyone run into this problem with not having the Kontact 2 AU plug-in show up in Garage Band 08? It's driving me crazy to have to play Kontact 2 out of one computer into an input of Garage Band on another computer. It's ridiculous.

J Dean

G5, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Nov 20, 2007 8:17 AM

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Nov 20, 2007 8:48 AM in response to J Dean

I had the same problem, try this:

In your home directory, go to Library/Caches/
(make sure you are in the library in your home directory, not the library at the root level of the hard disk).

and remove this file: com.apple.audiounits.cache

You can drag it to your desktop if you like or throw it away.

Then relaunch garage band, it will rescan all audio units.

If you have the Kontakt audio unit installed in YourHardDiskName/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components it should recognize it and include it in your list. You can toss that cache file any time you want Garage Band to rescan your audio units.

I had a problem with Kontakt on an upgrade that broke it, GarageBand saw it and put Kontakt on its list of broken Audio Units, it would never load it after that... after a new rescan, it was fine.

Good luck

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