Topic: Automation in Kontakt

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  • June 3, 2004 at 17:48 #199
    point of reference
    Participant

    Hey there, been fiddling with Podium today and must say its definately a dern nice app with some serious potential.

    So far the only problem I’ve encounted is setting up automation of parameters for NI Kontakt. Usually you can just right click on the param, choose automation and bind it to whichever value you wish. I’ve tried setting a param (filter cutoff in this instance) to both a MIDI CC# and a Host Automation #, neither of which caused said param to become automatable. Hopefully someone can shed some light on this for me, cause afaik I’m doing everything correctly.

    June 3, 2004 at 17:54 #3407
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    Hi there,

    I’ll give the Kontakt demo a try, and see how it works. I will report back in an hour or so.

    Frits

    June 3, 2004 at 20:04 #3408
    point of reference
    Participant

    thnx for looking into it 🙂

    June 3, 2004 at 20:42 #3411
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    I finally managed to download the latest Kontakt Demo (1.1). When importing it into Podium 1.01 (which supports native VST parameters), there are no VST parameters reported. Maybe it’s a demo limitation, but if not, then I guess you’re supposed to automate Kontakt using MIDI CC’s.

    What probably is missing in your setup are MIDI CC parameter objects. When importing a Softsynth into Podium, only Pitch-Bend and Modulation (CC1) are created automatically. If you use the browser to locate the folder with the Kontakt parameters, you could copy and paste the Modulation object, and change the name and CC numbers in the properties dialog for the copied objects. I noticed that Kontakt allows to assign CC’s in the range of 0 to 121. I know it’s a tiresome job to create 120 parameter objects manually 😥 . In the future there will be a plugin definition file for Kontakt in the Podium library, with all these parameter objects preconfigured. Sorry for the inconvenience.

    Frits

    June 3, 2004 at 21:29 #3412
    point of reference
    Participant

    yeh, I tried to explain that Kontakt doesn’t have *any* default parameters set initially, you have to assign them as you need them…but when I would assign something in kontakt it wouldn’t show up under the params list.

    But yeh, those MIDI CC objects are created from the MIDI I/O portion of the setup correct? If so, then you are right as I only set up the audio and said that I didn’t need MIDI. I will try that out and report back to you 🙂

    June 3, 2004 at 21:38 #3413
    Zynewave
    Keymaster

    But yeh, those MIDI CC objects are created from the MIDI I/O portion of the setup correct?

    You probably refer to the MIDI Input Mappings panel. This is for creating mappings to your external MIDI controllers. The MIDI CC parameter objects will have to be created manually, if there is no device definition file for the plugin in the Podium Library.

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