Loading Kontakt 5 + Session Horns into Reaper

[thejericho13]

Hey guys! After some great advice here in the Reaper forums for adding brass into my sessions, I downloaded Session Horns from Native Instruments. Since I'm relatively new to home studio recording, I'm wondering if you can give me some direction as to how to get Kontakt 5/Session Horns loaded into Reaper?

I've read that I need to go Options -> Preferences -> VST -> Edit -> Add, then locate the Kontakt 5/Session Horn folders and load them in. However after I do and go back to my project and look for it in my VST and VSTi menus, they aren't there.

I even located the Native Instruments folder and directed Reaper to the VSTPlugins 64 and 32 bit folder with the .dll files and still no dice. I'm sure I'm making a dumb mistake somewhere in the chain, just don't know where!

[thejericho13]

Answered my own question - Restarted Reaper and everything loaded in. I'm going to go punch myself in the head now!

[Tod]

Originally Posted by thejericho13

Hey guys! After some great advice here in the Reaper forums for adding brass into my sessions, I downloaded Session Horns from Native Instruments. Since I'm relatively new to home studio recording, I'm wondering if you can give me some direction as to how to get Kontakt 5/Session Horns loaded into Reaper?

I've read that I need to go Options -> Preferences -> VST -> Edit -> Add, then locate the Kontakt 5/Session Horn folders and load them in. However after I do and go back to my project and look for it in my VST and VSTi menus, they aren't there.

I even located the Native Instruments folder and directed Reaper to the VSTPlugins 64 and 32 bit folder with the .dll files and still no dice. I'm sure I'm making a dumb mistake somewhere in the chain, just don't know where!

When you setup the VST and added the NI folder, did you click on "Re-scan"? If you didn't then they still won't show up unless you close & reload Reaper so that it will then re-scan.