And some installers don’t make that very obvious at all. The multitude of different plugin versions can be very confusing until one gets used to the fact that there are up to 4 different VST versions: VST2 and VST 3 each for 32bit and 64 bit versions. Maybe you inadvertently chose that folder when originally installing Kontakt, since you assumed there was a VST3 version of Kontakt available?
#Kontakt 6 player not showing up how to
Check with your DAW's documentation on how to reactivate blocked plug-ins. If your plug-in does not appear in your DAW, it may have been blocked by your DAW's plug-in manager. From there you can load your instrument in KONTAKT's or REAKTOR's browser. Our latest releases require the latest version of Kontakt to work if, once you have downloaded and installed your instrument according to the installation instructions, you open an older version. I think c:\Program Files\Common Files\VST3\ should only be used for VST3 plugins so everything else in there may get ignored. To use these instruments, you must load an instance of REAKTOR or KONTAKT in your DAW.
Kontakt doesn’t have a VST3 plugin - neither do most Native Instruments plugins (as of this writing).