If you have a multi-timbre or multi-articulation instrument, but no documentation, how do you figure out how to switch between different sounds? What is a keyswitch?One common technique is a “keyswitch”. Playing a MIDI note of a specific pitch turns on a particular timbre. The MIDI note is out of range for that instrument so   Read More...

In the Mapping Editor you set up Zones for each sample that will be part of an Instrument. A Zone is a sample, plus its root MIDI note and the range of velocities that trigger it. The manual doesn’t say so, but it seems to me that the Zone also includes the range of notes   Read More...

There are various ways to hear an Instrument: Click notes on Kontakt’s on-screen keyboard. However, they will all be the same velocity, about 120. (Click the Keyboard icon in the Main Control Panel at the top of the rack to show or hide the On-Screen Keyboard panel.) Use a MIDI keyboard with Kontakt in standalone   Read More...

I don’t know why these things are sometimes so not obvious to me, but it took me a while to figure out how to connect my MIDI tracks in MOTU Digital Performer to a Kontakt instrument, when Kontakt is running as a separate application (rather than as a plugin on a DP track). I didn’t   Read More...