I've been using Kontakt as sample player for quite a while but haven't actually done any of my own programs until now. I put together an instrument yesterday and the mapping was quite intuitive. However, when I finally wanted to make the output from the instrument mono rather than stereo I ran into problems. How the heck do you do that in Kontakt2!? I scanned the manual but couldn't find any relevant info. I can route the output to one Kontakt channel and set that channel to send to *one* host channel rather than two (host is Cubase btw). Thing is that this host channel still becomes a stereo one (so the Kontakt output goes either left or right, not mono).
Do I need to do it the other way around? I mean first create a mono VST channel in Cubase then route output from Kontakt to it somehow?
Anyone knows?
Kontakt2 mono out, how?
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- KVRian
- 1269 posts since 6 Nov, 2002 from where moose mate, mate
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- KVRist
- 34 posts since 29 Apr, 2003 from Germany
The way I got it to work for me was as follows:
1). Start Kontakt in stand alone mode
2). In the main section check the "Outputs" button and watch out for the output area showing up in the lower area of the gui
3). Configure your output channels as desired (i.e. 10 stereo channels and 6 mono channels. Don't forget to name them, for example st. 1 ....> st. 10, mono 1 ...> mono 6 (this is important because later they should appear like this in Cubase)
4). Most important: After setting up the output channels don't forget to check the red coloured "Make default" button on the right of the outputs module!
5) Close the stand alone application and fire up Cubase ... now you should be close.
6). In the instrument module window, just below on the left side of the instrument's name you'll find a little arrow which allows for assigning the instrument to an appropriate output channel. In case you want to assign single groups within an instrument to different outputs, you can achieve this by checking the output button in the amplifier module.
6). For further information see p. 88/89 in the manual!
As I said, this is the solution I figured out to work on my side.
Hope that helps. Have fun!
(oh, btw, which is the best ...?)
regards
1). Start Kontakt in stand alone mode
2). In the main section check the "Outputs" button and watch out for the output area showing up in the lower area of the gui
3). Configure your output channels as desired (i.e. 10 stereo channels and 6 mono channels. Don't forget to name them, for example st. 1 ....> st. 10, mono 1 ...> mono 6 (this is important because later they should appear like this in Cubase)
4). Most important: After setting up the output channels don't forget to check the red coloured "Make default" button on the right of the outputs module!
5) Close the stand alone application and fire up Cubase ... now you should be close.
6). In the instrument module window, just below on the left side of the instrument's name you'll find a little arrow which allows for assigning the instrument to an appropriate output channel. In case you want to assign single groups within an instrument to different outputs, you can achieve this by checking the output button in the amplifier module.
6). For further information see p. 88/89 in the manual!
As I said, this is the solution I figured out to work on my side.
Hope that helps. Have fun!
(oh, btw, which is the best ...?)
regards
Do you have a solution ... or are you a part of the problem?
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1269 posts since 6 Nov, 2002 from where moose mate, mate
Thanks for helping Lukow!!! This is *really* useful!!! Can I just ask...
3) How do actually configure a channel as mono? Is this different in stand alone mode compared to VST mode? (I won't get to try this until this evening...).
(Eh, sorry but which is the best what?)
3) How do actually configure a channel as mono? Is this different in stand alone mode compared to VST mode? (I won't get to try this until this evening...).
(Eh, sorry but which is the best what?)
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- KVRist
- 34 posts since 29 Apr, 2003 from Germany
You're welcome.
Well, to configure a channel as mono (in the output module as described above) you have just to click on the "Conf." button below of the channels. A new window pops up and in the upper right corner you'll find a box named "audiochannels" which means you can chose the desired number of audio channels by clicking on the little arrows. In your case you would obviously assign a "1". Thats all.
As for the difference between stand alone mode and VSTi mode in Cubase: Basically you can perform the same procedure in the host, but this method has proven not to function conveniently as for any reason Cubase (or Kontakt?) tends to forget the settings in a later session ... So it's better to do the settings in stand alone mode.
Erm, forget about my "which is the best?". I was referring to the recent sampler discussions on this forum, where unbelievable statements had been made. And also the latest user "review" concerning Kontakt. IMO just absurd. But who cares. Kontakt delivers and this is what counts for me.
regards
Well, to configure a channel as mono (in the output module as described above) you have just to click on the "Conf." button below of the channels. A new window pops up and in the upper right corner you'll find a box named "audiochannels" which means you can chose the desired number of audio channels by clicking on the little arrows. In your case you would obviously assign a "1". Thats all.
As for the difference between stand alone mode and VSTi mode in Cubase: Basically you can perform the same procedure in the host, but this method has proven not to function conveniently as for any reason Cubase (or Kontakt?) tends to forget the settings in a later session ... So it's better to do the settings in stand alone mode.
Erm, forget about my "which is the best?". I was referring to the recent sampler discussions on this forum, where unbelievable statements had been made. And also the latest user "review" concerning Kontakt. IMO just absurd. But who cares. Kontakt delivers and this is what counts for me.
regards
Do you have a solution ... or are you a part of the problem?
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1269 posts since 6 Nov, 2002 from where moose mate, mate
Well I did try assigning "1" physical output channel for the Kontakt channel in the configuration window yesterday but that only resulted in left or right side of a stereo channel in the Cubase mixer. Maybe if I do this config in stand alone mode instead as you suggest, Cubase will then properly detect the channel as mono when I load Kontakt. Will be very interesting to try. Can't wait to get home and start fiddling with it!
Thanks again Lukow!
Thanks again Lukow!
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 1269 posts since 6 Nov, 2002 from where moose mate, mate
I think I've got this working now. I did just like Lukow said *only* for me it didn't work setting it up in the stand-alone version, but in the VSTi one! Funny. Any changes I would do in the stand-alone program would either be totally ignored by the VTSi or would hang Cubase totally as the VSTi was starting up! Nice...
To get a mono output channel I started the Kontakt-16-out version. I clicked the outputs icon in the instruments panel in Cubase (ver 4) to enable a few more channels than the 2 initial ones. Then in Kontakt I added a new channel with "1" output (in the conf menu) and set this output to one unassigned Cubase VST channel. Then I saved the setup with the red "set default" button and, *importantly*, restarted the VSTi (Kontakt does remind you of this as you're changing the channel settings)! Now Cubase would detect a mono output from Kontakt and I could go back into Kontakt, select a sample program and assign the output to the mono channel.
I really couldn't find any useful info about this in the manual. I got it working thanks to Lukow's kind help + trial and error.
Good luck parris.
To get a mono output channel I started the Kontakt-16-out version. I clicked the outputs icon in the instruments panel in Cubase (ver 4) to enable a few more channels than the 2 initial ones. Then in Kontakt I added a new channel with "1" output (in the conf menu) and set this output to one unassigned Cubase VST channel. Then I saved the setup with the red "set default" button and, *importantly*, restarted the VSTi (Kontakt does remind you of this as you're changing the channel settings)! Now Cubase would detect a mono output from Kontakt and I could go back into Kontakt, select a sample program and assign the output to the mono channel.
I really couldn't find any useful info about this in the manual. I got it working thanks to Lukow's kind help + trial and error.
Good luck parris.