To anyone using Colossus.

[pianodano]

Hello,

I have posted a topic similar to this over at the Sounds on Line Forum. My Colossus samples playback with a rather large sounding room ambience or perhaps reverb. They are unusable in my mixes because the ambience or reverb is so large sounding and not suitable at all for intimate sounds. Other users at SOL state that their samples are dry and that the Kompakt players reverb settings are off. On my Receptor Kompakt player the default "reverb, Chorus and Delay" settings are positioned at about midway. Moving the sliders seem to have no affect at all on the sounds. If anyone that is using Receptor/ Colossus could weigh in, I would appreciate it.

Thanks

Danny

[Hybernation]

Hello,

I have posted a topic similar to this over at the Sounds on Line Forum. My Colossus samples playback with a rather large sounding room ambience or perhaps reverb. They are unusable in my mixes because the ambience or reverb is so large sounding and not suitable at all for intimate sounds. Other users at SOL state that their samples are dry and that the Kompakt players reverb settings are off. On my Receptor Kompakt player the default "reverb, Chorus and Delay" settings are positioned at about midway. Moving the sliders seem to have no affect at all on the sounds. If anyone that is using Receptor/ Colossus could weigh in, I would appreciate it.

Mine are dry. I apologize in advance if this is obvious to you (it wasn't obvious to me when I first started with Kompakt) but each effect can be turned OFF completely by clicking the area where the word "REVERB", "CHORUS" or "DELAY" are. This area is actually a "button" (in GUI-speak). When it's on, it's LIGHT blue and the word "REVERB" font is black. When it's off, it's dark blue and the word is white. So, load up something (like String Ensemble 1) and make sure all three effects buttons are "dark".

BTW: the Trombone.nki file is completely hosed up around middle C (plays several notes a whole step high at one of the 2 velocities). I pointed it out to SOL and they said "sorry". Another fellow on the forum told how to fix it using Kontact 1.x, so I did, and I posted the fix there...here is the link to it: http://www.hybernationmusic.com/Trombone.nki

Unfortunately to overlay the NKI file on the Receptor you need ANOTHER fix (from Muse) to make "SAMPLES" a writable directory/area. I got an "rpm" file from Muse which does this. Put it in your "drop installers here" directory and install it just like any other file, and you will be able to overlay the Trombone.nki file in your Samples\East West\Colossus Library\Instruments\Orchestra directory with the fixed file. Here is the link to the fix (Muse, I hope you don't mind me posting this!):
http://www.hybernationmusic.com/fix-per ... es-1-1.rpm

Lastly, once you overlay with this new fixed Trombone, you might get a "can't find sample" message when you first load it. Let Kompakt find the sample automatically, and then re-save it from the Receptor and you'll be good-to-go for all future loads of the instrument.

Hope this helps

[pianodano]

Mine are dry. I apologize in advance if this is obvious to you (it wasn't obvious to me when I first started with Kompakt) but each effect can be turned OFF completely by clicking the area where the word "REVERB", "CHORUS" or "DELAY" are. This area is actually a "button" (in GUI-speak). When it's on, it's LIGHT blue and the word "REVERB" font is black. When it's off, it's dark blue and the word is white. So, load up something (like String Ensemble 1) and make sure all three effects buttons are "dark".

Hope this helps

How on earth did you figure that out ? You are right. Yipeee . So if the reverb "button" is "off"( not lighted) you can't vary amount of reverb, ie: take reverb out of instrument without turning it on ? That's how mine is working. I have to go think on that for awhile.

Thank you, Thank you.

Danny