Native Instruments Kontakt 5 - Some Mapping Editor Questions

[zanshin777]

Look at the picture I uploaded "Mapping Editor.PNG"

I used references

Arrow 1 and Arrow 2

1) Look at the picture I uploaded "Mapping Editor.PNG"

I've heard that the pitches may be different than the key you play on the keyboard. I've heard that you can check out that here. How?

2) I watched a tutorial but don't understand exactly. A guy creates Split Zones on the MIDI Keyboard by loading on Kontakt Instrument and tweaking Mapping Editor.

The guy load an instrument than goes "Settings - Mapping Editor"

2.1) Select a range on Arrow 1 than delete it.

When you select a range on Arrow 1 you can not see exactly what range you choose.

Firstly It don't show the range notes on K. Range Part.

Secondly Keyboard Notes are too small. Then you can not be sure.

How to be sure what range you choose?

2.2) Than he drag and drop a new instrument to the part he deleted.

I choose and instrument on "Libraries" then try to drag and drop on the Arrow 1 but I can not. There is you can not do that mark while Im doing it.

So how to drag and drop an instrument here?

So Split Zones are being created.

3) When I choose the Zone of the Instrument I loaded on Arrow 1 and drag it "Tune" is still 0.00. Why?

4) When I choose the Zone the Zone of the Instrument I loaded on Arrow 1.

K. Range is ??? - ??? Why doesn't it show the range notes?

5) When you play a key on the MIDI Keyborad how do you know which pictch you get exactly (with octave designations)?

Is there a place to show the note you play?

I've heard that NI plays one octave lower?

[EvilDragon]

Wrong subforum.

When you select a range on Arrow 1 you can not see exactly what range you choose.

Firstly It don't show the range notes on K. Range Part.

K. Range doesn't show the range of your selection. It shows the min/max key for the currently selected zone (but only one - if more zones are selected and they have different min/max key, you will get ???)

Secondly Keyboard Notes are too small. Then you can not be sure.

Use +/- buttons to the right of horizontal scrollbar to zoom in/out.

5) When you play a key on the MIDI Keyborad how do you know which picth you get exactly (with octave designations)?

Is there a place to show the note you play?

No. You need to listen to know which note plays. The Master panel has a tuning fork function which you can use to compare pitches.

I've heard that NI plays one octave lower?

No it doesn't. It just uses C3 for middle C (MIDI note 60), some other samplers might use C4 or even C5 for this designation.


You should probably read Kontakt's manual, section about Mapping Editor which explains everything about Key Range parameter and other stuff. It's also not for dropping instruments in it, but samples. You cannot drop NKI files into Mapping Editor to "create split zones", it's not intended for that. The manual explains things in more detail.

[zanshin777]

Thank you very much for your detailed answer.

I could achieve doing this.

I copied the zones of Instrument 1 and paste it to Instrument 2's lower registers.

But when I delete Instrument 1 from the Multi Rack.

Those copied registers on the Instrument 2 don't sound.

Why? Do I have to keep Instrument 1 on Multi Rack although I copied the zones into Instruments 2?

[EvilDragon]

If you're copying zones from scripted instruments (those that have graphical interfaces), it won't work without their scripts. So copying zones from one scripted instrument to another is not something you should be doing, really. Each instrument has Instrument Options, where you can set the high/low key range for scripts and transposition, use that for splits.

[zanshin777]

Still I have to keep two instruments in a Multi Rack.

It'd better If I put them into one instrument.

[EvilDragon]

Yes, if you want to do splits properly, you need to have two instruments in the rack. That's how it's supposed to work.