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 the 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).

	Mats Claesson`s guide to Kontakt 2.
	Part 4.The really,really fun stuff, 1-3.

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This tutorial will show you couple of production techniques that uses Beat machine to generate percussive and sustain types of sounds from one sound file, fast. As always the material (your sound file) you use is important, I will use a vocal sound, my then 8 year old son, the sound I'm always using when trying something new. I suggest you do the same, us a familiar recording of a voice, my recording is just a couple of seconds long, don't use very long sound files, the program (Kontakt) cant handle that.

This part of the tutorial will not give you (as one sad on the net) " wicked techno sounds). Its completely free of those sounds (whatever they are).
This is for the musician who wants to WORK with his sounds and are relativly new to sampling. I guarantee you, its free from instants rewards but full off possibilityes!!!!!

Its important to WORK with your sounds knowing them not only by preset names but by working with the sounds possibilities and the knowledge you have, large or small.

The techniques described in this tutorial is possible to do easier in other programs (at least parts of them). The thing is that I do this in Kontakt as I own Kontakt :-) It may take me some more time but I like to WORK with the material (sounds) as I do in this tutorial. Then you may learn some about your sounds. Automation of the things described here is of no interest to me!

"wicked techno sounds-guys" this is not for you :-)

Start.
-Make a new instrument.
-What you do when the sound file doesn't play.
-Save that instrument.
-How to use the Beat Machine.
-Slice and edit slices.

This instrument will serve as a base for all other instrument we ar going to create in this tutorial. All other instrument will be created from this instrument.


As a start its okay to just slice it the way I did it in the video, fast and furious. But when you start doing this for "serious music creation" you have to experiment/work a lot more with the slices.
Here are some ideas (not very bright ones).
-Make slices that reflects the content of the sound, like make one slice for every vowel and consonant.
-Make slices that reflect a tempo, 1 second is a 1/4 long 0.5 seconds is a 1/8 not long. That is if the tempo is 120. Okay there are other programs that do this much more easy, but why not do it this way.....?

Next Video.
-Transposing Slices
-Transpose Individual slices.
-Using compressor to even out volume differences (not the best techniques described here).
-Using Volume envelop to make all slices have equal length.

To edit all slices its not always necessary to mark them as said in the video.
Kontakt defaults to Edit all Groups, a command you find in Group editor. Its the group editor that really decides what is edited. This is not always true as transposition pan and volume in the Mapping editor is not depending on the setting, Edit all Groups, in Group editor. Confused? This is all about the very advanced possibilities in Kontakt, and it makes sense if you into very complicated performance programming. And just to tell you I don't do much of this myself. When it comes to advanced performance programming like what you find in Vienna Symphonic Library, I leve this to people specially interested in this. There won't be any tutorials about this on my pages (i promise).

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