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forrestlong · Post by **forrestlong** » Mon Apr 27, 2015 10:35 pm

Hi Attila,

I am able to load Kontakt on several different tracks as separate instances, but not as a multi-timbral instrument in stand-alone mode.

In the Kontakt 5.dll.rcINST file, create_new_instance=1

Should I change this to =0 ?

Seems to work as expected as a VST.

Thanks,
Forrest

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 8:21 am

Thank you, Forrest!
Yes, it should be 0! As I suspected, RC overwrites this value, I just need to find in what circumstances it does that... I wonder it you change that to 0 manually, will it revert back to 1 when you quit the application?

Thanks,
Attila

forrestlong · Post by **forrestlong** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 1:57 pm

Hi Attila,

I manually change the file to the value = '0'. It works as expected now, showing Kontakt 5 Instance 1,2,3 ... at the top.

Have opened and closed RC several times with the value remaining ='0'.

Could installing the 2.9b10 have changed the value to '1'?

Thanks,
Forrest

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 6:45 pm

Hi Forrest,

I am not yet sure what happened. I will check which conditions lead to saving the instruments and possibly overwriting this value. Installation should not change that.

Thanks,
Attila

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 6:52 pm

max.noise kindly helped me to test the VST plug-in in Cubase Pro 8, so at the moment it seems to work in all DAWs.
A new beta version (v2.9b11) is available now:

2.9Beta11 improvements:

Rhythm editor was redesigned a bit
Note lengths are not expressed in beats anymore. Quarter note (1/4) is used as a 'beat' in all snap and grid settings
VST plug-in will work in Cubase 8
New variation: 'Add Chord Notes' which is similar to 'Add Interval' but adds only chord notes
[VST] Bug fix: when the built-in sequencer was turned off, playback should be stopped
[VST] Bug fix: notes at time zero did not play when using the built in sequencer

Thanks!
Attila

max.noise · Post by **max.noise** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 7:37 pm

musicdevelopments wrote:max.noise kindly helped me to test the VST plug-in in Cubase Pro 8, so at the moment it seems to work in all DAWs.

My pleasure, Attila, I am glad that I was able to help.

forrestlong · Post by **forrestlong** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 7:47 pm

Hi Attila,

Thanks for the update! I've installed v2.9b11 and checked the Kontakt 5 file, which remained unchanged.

So, the mystery of what is resetting the create_new_instance field is clearly elsewhere.

Thanks,
Forrest

dave4761 · Post by **dave4761** » Tue Apr 28, 2015 11:38 pm

Thanks Attila and Forrest.

I just got back into the studio tonight and downloaded and installed the latest beta. I check my Kontakt 5. dll rcinst file as you instructed and sure enough it was set to 1. I changed to 0 and saved and everything seems to be working. Interestingly i found what appears to be some sort of bogus Kontakt 5 dll rcinst file with the moniker unknown. Don't know how this got in there but deleted it. It might be of interest to both of you guys though.

forrestlong · Post by **forrestlong** » Wed Apr 29, 2015 2:58 pm

Hi Dave,
Had not seen the bogus file you described, but good to be aware of it. Hopefully deleting this solves the issue for you.
Thanks,
Forrest

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Thu Apr 30, 2015 8:37 am

Dave, Forrest, thanks for the feedback.
Attila

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Tue May 05, 2015 12:00 pm

New beta version available (v2.9b12)!
The biggest improvement is that the new VST plug-in works on OS X.
It would be amazing if you could try the plug-in in different DAWs.

Changes:

[OS X] New VST plug-in working!
[OS X] All changes since v2.9b7
"Mute original note" option added to "Add Chord Notes" variation
Fixed stuck notes in Phrase Editor preview
Melody harmonization works with multiple selected phrases

Please report any problems.

forrestlong · Post by **forrestlong** » Tue May 05, 2015 3:17 pm

Hi Attila,

Thanks for the updated features!

For Harmonizing a melody, it seems to take a lot longer now, whether harmonizing one phrase or multiple phrases. Maybe not an issue, per se, but RC appears to not be responding while it is processing this feature, at least for Win8.1.

Thanks,
Forrest

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Tue May 05, 2015 3:50 pm

Hi Forrest,

I think the reason is that a log file is created during harmonization with all details in C:\Users\Public\RCHarmonize.TXT. This would help me to reproduce problems.
You can delete this file as it can grow big.
This log file creation was enabled in previous versions too, so I am not sure why the program became slower.

Thanks,
Attila

forrestlong · Post by **forrestlong** » Tue May 05, 2015 4:20 pm

HI Attila,

Yes, that was the problem. Once this log file was deleted, the auto-harmonize is very fast now.

The file was 322K in size before deletion. After using this feature four times successively, the new file is 38K. So, it seems to grow quite quickly.

Thanks!
Forrest

musicdevelopments · Post by **musicdevelopments** » Tue May 05, 2015 6:21 pm

Yes, I'll remove logging from the next update...
If I don't get bug reports, some cool features will be added in the next update.

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