Re: Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol

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Hey Slau, when I first got Ultimate it shipped on a drive. The problem 
was when they updated the library between versions it was then mandatory 
that you downloaded the entire library again through various different 
instrument downloaders which was extremely cumbersome and time 
consuming. A USB drive would have been very welcome. I appreciate the 
vote of confidence in thinking I could do a demo but for now I'll leave 
it to the pros who seem to have had a head start on the self voicing 
feature. However, if I hear something that wasn't covered specifically 
for PT I'll gladly chime in. The only thing I can think of off hand is 
the instance button which must be used every time you instantiate a new 
instrument or midi track. If you have 8 instrument tracks and want to 
get to #4 in order to change a sound, you'll have to press the instance 
button, move back to #1 and count 3 more clicks of the nob to get to #4. 
When you hit record for instrument #4 in PT you'll then hear the 
instrument on that track being played. Unfortunately there's no audible 
way of knowing what instrument you're on in terms of instances so it's 
very important to keep track or you'll be changing the wrong sound for 
the wrong PT track. One good way is using names that correspond to the 
track you're using. So, if it's a bass track you might want to name the 
track in PT Bass Instance #3 Kontact Slap1. That way you'll know to go 
to instance # 3 on the keyboard if you want to change the sound and 
you'll also know the name of the original sound in case you want to 
revert back at some point. Of course if you did change the sound you 
should also update the Name of the track in PT to reflect the name 
change but the instance will always remain #3. Another issue on the same 
point is if you duplicate a track in PT. Every time you do this it will 
create a new instance which can be confusing because it will put the 
duplicated instance after the last one. That means if you had 8 
instrument tracks in PT and duplicated track 5 the instance in Komplete 
Kontrol would then be #9 because it would be created after the last 
instance. In that case you would name the duplicated track using the 
"instance #9" tag even though it would appear as track #6 in PT. It only 
takes one wrong turn of a nob to change your sound forever and not 
remember what it was supposed to be so it's vital to keep track of 
everything. I experimented with 18 instrument tracks of Komplete Kontrol 
yesterday with a few duplicated tracks that I changed sounds on and 
things went smoothly without CPU overload. As I previously said Kontrol 
is a bit more process intensive than other VI's and I don't know how 
many tracks you would get on a smaller system. Using commit or freeze 
would be best for freeing up CPU power and memory load.

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