Mats Claesson`s guide to Kontakt
2.
Part 1a.The basics.
This tutorial is mainly for my students at The Norwegian Academy of Music but everyone is welcome. Its not a complete tutorial, its intended as a support for th
e students at the academy, but
it can be used as a self study. If you have any comments or suggestions
please e-mail me.
I prefer positive an constructive comments :-) after all I'm doing this
for free (its
not
a
part
of my work at the academy to produce tutorials on the internet).
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Mats Claesson`s guide to Kontakt
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Part 1a.The basics. |
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This tutorial will take you trough most of the basic
programming features of an "ordinary" sampler, and some of the more
exciting features that is a part of Kontakt 2.
Sampler.
Kontakt 2 is a sampler. That means it can play back pre recorded sound when
you play a key on your MIDI keyboard. It also mean that you can transpose
a pre recorded sound just by playing "upp and down" the keyboard.
When you do this transposition, the sound also becomes slower or faster. Playing
one
octave up makes the sound half as long and playing one octave down makes
the sound
twice as long.
Kontakt 2.
At this very moment (october 2005)Kontakt 2 is by far the most advanced sampler
there is! It expands the primitive sampler options described above in all
directions
and it is more like an instrument of its own.
In this first tutorial we will explore the basics, how to use Kontakt 2 as
a basic sampler.
In this first tutorial, Part 1 a and b, l will go through:
Building a sampled flute instrument.
This is something we don't do much today. When we needs a sampled flute
its much more convenient to use our fantastic ( yes it IS fantastic) Vienna
Symphonic Library.
It has almost every instrument in an symphony orchestra
sampled and ready to use. We will work with that library next semester.
Even if we don't do much of this type of work any longer (sampling acoustical
instrument) is a very good exercise to start with. You will learn much of f
how a sampler
can be programmed by doing this.
On the harddisc X (in the electrophonic studio
at the academy) you find a folder called Tutorial Samples copy this folder
to your own hard disc.
You can also download the samples here.
Inside
this
folder are
most of the
samples, pre recorded sounds, that you need to follow this Part 1 tutorial.
Before you starts with building an instrument
in Kontakt you have to edit the pre recorded sounds.
We wont do that now even if
we should.
You are probably eager to start learning Kontakt? I will come back
to how and what to edit later in this tutorial. When you become a Kontakt/sampling
pro, you will start the sampling/programming process with editing the sounds
that you are going to use.
Import the sound, 1, from the
folder Tutorial
Samples, its a flute sound.
Look at the video below, is shows you:
Edit an instrument
How to edit an instrument.
Setting the range of a Zone.
Audition samples in the browser.
If this doesn't work as
shown in the video, you have to rebuild of the database (to rebuild your database,
look at start of the first video).
Mapping the new sample.
The final 3 zone/sample, one octave, instrument.
Make a cromatic flute.
Do as described in the video below, and Save the instrument.
How to save is described below.
Save the instrument.
To save the instrument you click on the Load/save
button. The "save edited instrument"
menue then pops up. Click on it.
