Infinite Player Tips and Tricks #2

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Here is a picture showing the different drum kit piece routing in the IP2 Stereo and Multi-Track kits:


Big pic:
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/9206 ... uting3.png

-- in the ST kits, you can control the the level of each kit piece separately,
-- in the MT kits, you can control the levels of each kit piece into several mixer channels and you can control each mixer channel too,
-- these 2 examples are for comparison only,
-- I have created my own Multi template (no instruments) for the kits, with the Mixer channel names shown.

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If you are running short of memory

• switch IP2 (or Kontakt 3.5 (or Kontakt4) to run in "purged" mode (it's in [Options] >> Load/Import),
• this loads the .nki files but without the samples,
• play through your MIDI clips once (this enables Kontakt to identify which samples are used),
• then click the Arrow next to "Purge" on each Instrument and select "Update sample pool" to load the samples that are used,
• there is an "Update sample pool" for all instruments at once, on the main toolbar too.

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Accessing User Guides in Kontakt 3.5 (and 4?)

Have you noticed the ... \Infinite Player\Documentation folder on your disk?.

Put your Kontakt and Drum Masters manuals and the iMap pic in there. Then you can access them quickly from the button in the Kontakt Browser, Libraries tab:

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USD kits / GM mode: silent Crash 1.

You may find that the Crash 1 kit piece in your USD kits does not sound in GM mode. If so, you will see that it is not mapped to any key. To enable Crash 1 just change the Articulation from "Inside" to "Edge" and you will see the key mapping change to C#2 (49).

Also, the Crash 2 and Splash kit pieces may have swapped mapping positions. In GM, Crash 2 is on A2 (57) and Splash on G2 (55). Change the mapping mode to Custom and you can alter the mappings accordingly (using [MIDI Learn] is easiest).

Once you have changed your kit piece (Instrument) or kit (Multi) Save it back into the folder, with a slightly different name if you wish to keep the original.