[gvalasek]

in reply to: LASS banks for all sections #31517

You are welcome! A quick fix: some harmonics were omitted by accident and some wandered to slot 9 instead of slot 8. I fixed those so now ideally the banks should look like as they are described in the first post Link is the same.

[gvalasek]

in reply to: LASS banks for all sections #31515

You are welcome! Also, you’ve just reminded me how long it’s been since I last ate some paprikás csirke!

[gvalasek]

in reply to: A naive chord-splitter/auto-divisi #30513

The best source to start scripting might be the actual Kontakt scripting manual in the Kontakt 3/Documentation folder. It has a very nice, friendly learning curve and it’s a pretty fun read. The file is called Kontakt Script Language Manual.pdf.

Nils has a very nice tutorial in the works here, that’s a good resource as well. An essential tool in script development – in my experience – is once again something that originates from Nils, namely his script editor KSP. It makes coding bigger scripts easier and has some very useful capabilities which speed up script development a lot.

Multi-scripts (like the chord splitter) are in a less known territory. I tried asking NI a few times if they plan to release some documentation for them but the farthest I got was a “we forwarded it to the dev team” reply so I had to Cpt. Kirk out these things. It’s a lot of trial and error, not worth delving into until you have a solid grip on the normal scripting. The only internet resource on multi scripts is the VI-control.net scripting subforum. Some things in the K4 ads are implying – in my read – that this state of multiscripts will finally change and we will have a proper documentation of it but we will see in a couple of weeks if I’m right or not

[gvalasek]

in reply to: A naive chord-splitter/auto-divisi #30511

@soulofsound wrote:

I haven’t tried with banks yet, because i didn’t know how to make the script use other MIDI channels.

Basically i work on channel 2, so i would need the script to distribute to 3,4,5,6 instead of 2,3,4,5

Unfortunately you’d need some coding to switch the channels but I made a multi where the master channel is ch 2 and the other instruments are on 3-6, I hope it helps, grab it from here.

[gvalasek]

in reply to: A naive chord-splitter/auto-divisi #30509

It seems to work OK with banks, program changes are sent too, I just replaced the individual instruments with banks: here. Were there glitches that you experienced when you were trying to use banks?

[gvalasek]

in reply to: Speed patches loading #31383

Updating your Kontakt Database can improve some type of loading delays significantly, check out the K3 manual at page 87 it’s worth a shot (basically you’ll have to make sure that LASS is in your Kontakt DB path and do an update of the DB).

[gvalasek]

in reply to: A naive chord-splitter/auto-divisi #30508

@soulofsound wrote:

gvalasek, the script is great and it makes my workflow a lot easier, most of all creatively.

Problem for me is that they are multis, so i can’t seem to combine them with my current template and load them in an instrument bank, which -i know- makes no sense. But do you think the script could be made so that i can load every one of the auto-divisi on a different track in a different Kontakt Instrument Bank, yet still have the benefit of automatically spreading the played notes over the different instances/divisi?
The auto-divisi would have to be outside the multi though, otherwise it’s impossible to use them with an Instrument Bank.

What do you think?

Thank you! I wanted it to work when you change the single instruments (e.g. Violins FC LP) to banks (e.g. Violins FC all articulations) but I never got the time to test that one and there are a few things I can think of that’d currently made that mode acting strange. I’ll only get back to my music stuff on the weekend to check these things but I think it’ll be fixable. Either way I do think it makes sense to use it that way, I made and saved instrument banks for all divisis so that I can use them with this script too by replacing the single articulation with a bank

[gvalasek]

in reply to: Purge problem #31286

@Andrew K wrote:

No worries Mike.

@Mike McCarthy wrote:

As I’m using the patches inside Instrument Banks – is there a way to purge just the legato Patches inside a Bank without purging the whole Bank?

That’s a good question. I’ve never tried to purge Instruments Banks. I guess if Purging an Instrument Bank does all the patches in the bank, then you’d have to open the patch inside the bank to purge it. And this is only available in K3.5 (no player) version.

Hope this helps.

AK

+1 on that you can purge the bank’s instruments individually in K3.5 the way Andrew explained. The bank’s purge will purge all instruments, if you open up a patch in the bank and select purge then it will purge only the selected instrument.

[gvalasek]

in reply to: A naive chord-splitter/auto-divisi #30505

I’m glad you find this useful! Here’s a 1st violins LP 16bit multi where the CC64 works exactly the opposite what’s in the first post, so by default the new notes will be added to the held chord: here. You’ll have to load up the other sections and save their multis.

[gvalasek]

in reply to: Controlling the "swells" with an envelope generator? #31220

@Mike McCarthy wrote:

Ah – I get it!

Need the full version of Kontakt – no more excuses!

Many thanks.
Mike

There is still a way to see if it helps with your problem at all: switch the KP into the K3 demo mode and you should be able to do these changes (though it’ll quit in 30 minutes)

[gvalasek]

in reply to: A naive chord-splitter/auto-divisi #30503

I’ll make a version of this where the default will be what you want. Won’t have time and I’m not where my music programs are until Friday but I’ll post it on the weekend!

[gvalasek]

in reply to: transform A.R.T. script into conventional MIDI part #31232

The best I can think of is enabling the “Send MIDI To Outside World” on all events in Options/Engine – this will make Kontakt send MIDI data to its MIDI outs, see K3 manual at page 27. Maybe Andrew knows a better solution.

[gvalasek]

in reply to: Controlling the "swells" with an envelope generator? #31218

Unfortunatelly my advice is less tidy than that I mean the first 8 groups in the Group editor of the divisi patches you use:

You’ll need the full version of Kontakt for this.

[gvalasek]

in reply to: Controlling the "swells" with an envelope generator? #31216

Try reducing the volume of the first 8 groups by a few dBs (1-4, depending on the patch) in the patches to see if that helps to get it sound closer to what you want, it usually does the trick for me.

[gvalasek]

in reply to: Increasing dynamic range in Kontakt Player #31172

@Steelkat wrote:

You mean you don’t see any of the gray vertical bars or the yellow horizontal ones? The yellow horizontal lines are just an illustration in the manual to show you how the dynamic layers are roughly situated on the vertical axis

Er, sure, I knew that…. :oops: (DUH!)

Maybe I should just stick to steel guitar…. :roll:

Thanks gvalasek!

No worries, I think we all had a rush manual-reading moment at least once, especially with LASS because it’s so tempting

[gvalasek]

in reply to: Increasing dynamic range in Kontakt Player #31169

You mean you don’t see any of the gray vertical bars or the yellow horizontal ones? The yellow horizontal lines are just an illustration in the manual to show you how the dynamic layers are roughly situated on the vertical axis

[gvalasek]

in reply to: Instrument Banks and General Best Practice #31157

Maybe not the best practice but I made banks for every divisis. So I have separate bank files for the cello FC, A, B and C sections. All banks have the same playing techniques on the same slots (if the given articulation is not present in a divisi then I leave that slot empty), check the attached file if you are interested.

One thing may be helpful if you are new to banks: only one instrument can be active in a bank.

[gvalasek]

in reply to: Kontakt instr bank vs multi #31154

I simply use multis but sometimes I do utilise banks with some libraries – like with LASS It was consistently sampled so I did make banks for it.

[gvalasek]

in reply to: Kontakt instr bank vs multi #31152

We will see if the others know anything like this but I haven’t experienced anything like this when working with banks – though they are not my primary way of doing things in Kontakt.

[gvalasek]

in reply to: Kontakt instr bank vs multi #31150

I haven’t heard anything like this. What did you hear exactly in this regard?

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