hey Bill you will probably ahve to email me as i cant find a free version of Kontakt4

Hi Spalding

This should take you straight to the download link here click run when it asks you what to do.

Hope this helps

Bill

hi Bill i am working away for the next 10 days and wont have access to my keyboard other than a couple of hours at church this week but i will definately pursue this and keen to explore the use of Kontakt over the next few weeks .

Thanks for your willingness to help/coach me.

thats whats so good about this forum !!

Cheers buddy

Hi Bill,

must admit I haven't considered trying to use my vst's for style parts, (on my keyboard) but setting up for melody, should be simple enough to do.


Me personally, I'm more interested in using them in a backing track ie set up good quality sounds for a midifile or my BIAB songs and save them as an mp3 to play along to.

This will work just great ..


Except the fact that the EWQL stuff isn't exactly entry level VST's.

Any coaching available yet?

In Advance Thanks!!!

Jack

Hi Jack

Have you read and installed the programs and files in the links above on your computer yet, if so, what keyboard are you using.

Bill

Have been doing some testing with the latest Kontakt 5, and although the website only mentions its use with Windows 7 I have not yet found any problems using it with various versions of XP. (After all it is an update of Kontakt 4 where XP was supported)

Due the comprehensive capabilities of Kontakt 5 I have not been able to try everything; however it should be fine for arranger users as most are not into really in depth programming of sounds.

NOTE: As far as I am aware NI will not provide support for Kontakt 5 on XP or Vista, however there should be plenty of support on the NI forums.

Bill

HI Spalding

As you will be back soon, here is some info to get you started

Kontakt Setup

Make sure you have everything connected, then when you first open Kontakt a setup box will appear. (If you have run the program previously you can access the box by going to File and selecting Options)

Audio:

Set the driver to ASIO
Select the correct ASIO Device (If one came with your sound card use this rather than ASIO4all)
ASIO Configuration: If the driver came with your sound card this will probably be already setup to give the correct performance with your sound card. (You will need to consult the sound card manual if you need to change the settings)
If you are using ASIO4all make sure the correct computer output is selected, and adjust the buffer size to 256 samples. (This will be a trial an error adjustment to optimise latency and CPU use, however 256 is usually a good starting point)

MIDI:

Make sure the INPUT button is selected and select you Midi interface from the list and choose to assign it to port A.

Click close and you are ready to go. (NOTE: all the settings are remembered on exit so you will not need to go through the options every time the program starts, unless you wish to change the settings)

Keyboard:

Set the Midi up to control external equipment. (You will need to consult the manual for this) You can adjust the main sound balance using the computer volume and Keyboard/Mixer input volume.

Below are a couple of tutorials to get you started







When you feel comfortable with using the combination, post again and we can then move onto to Multis. (Sound Banks)

Bill

Hi Bill thanks for that. I have just come back but i have hit a snag already. I dont have a good enough sound card on my computer .

I asked my brother to help me set this stuff up but he said the following
'Hi Worth,

The Soundblaster isn't good enough because of:

1) The latency when using softsynths because it doesn't have good enough ASIO drivers for it. (I had one when I first had a PC, then I upgraded to the card in the following link - This is a very good starter-pro sound card for what you want to do.)'

He posted this link http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Audiophile2496.html

It already sounds a little daunting but it will have to wait until i have dealt with the expense of Christmas. Thanks again for your willingness to help. I will be back soon no doubt with further questions :-)