LE7 / Kontakt 2

I've recently bought Kontakt 2 & Kontakt Experience to use with LE7, but cpu drain is crippling my PB.
Am thinking of buying desktop, not sure whether to go for new iMac G5 2ghz or sell a limb & buy Powermac G5 dual 2.3ghz.
Is anyone out there running LE7 & Kontakt 2 on an iMac G5? If so, how is it performing?

In the meantime I downloaded the free Kontakt player. Still - I have no ideas how to get Kontakt 2 working again on Snow Leopard, any suggestion will be appreciated!

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EXSP24 in LE7 and other questions

I have worked out that the sampler instrument editor in LE7 has been removed which is kinda an odd upgrade from Logic Audio 6 imo. If i have this wrong please let me know.
So how do I go about adding in new instruments from sample cd's etc??
I am used to running Logic Audio 6 on my old Imac in System 9 so the new or apparent lack of Logic Folders etc is quite bizarre for me. So if anyone can also throw me some pointers on:
1: Using Reason adapted for Recycle as a rewired instrument in LE7 (I have a feeling this is not possible)
2: Using Absynth within LE7
3: Will something like Kontakt run in LE7?
4: Rewiring Logic into Live or vice versa.
So many questions
Thanks
Paul

You can't edit EXSP24 instruments but you can import several formats:
Akai, Soudfonts, Giga, SampleCell and DLS.
To create your own patches you need some external apps like this:
http://www.redmatica.com/Site/Pages/KM.php
About other questions and supposing that you don't have a Intel Mac:
1. Yes, you can.
2. Logic uses plugins in Audio Unit format; if you have an older version of Absynth you should upgrade to a newer one.
3. Same as above,
4. Logic can act as Rewire host only so you can rewire Live to Logic but not Logic to Live.
cheers
rob
Power Mac G4/533 PowerBook 12 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

How do i change the play style (e.g on a violin from arco to pizz) in Kontakt while still using the same instrument track, mid way though the song

So if the title is not clear, im really stuck. i got Kontakt 2 and the EWQL sound sets the other day from my uncle and I've been trying them out in logic. My problem is, that in my full orchestral piece, I have a violin 1 which plays pizz at the start. Mid way trhough the song i want it playing arco or legato. I cant do it without physically creating another track to play it on. Is it even possible to change it half way?
Thanks guys
Jonathan

Most keyswitched instruments have that already built into the Kontakt patch. It's probably possible to add that functionality either by editing in Kontakt or doing fancy setup in Logic's environment window, but either of those would be pretty complicated.
If a patch already has those, it should show up in the keyboard view in kontakt (colored keys away from the rest of the instrument range, sometimes a different color).

How do you use multiple outputs on a VSTi like Kontakt or Battery?

how do you use multiple outputs on a VSTi like Kontakt or Battery with Logic Pro 7.1? I've heard someting about using AUX busses, but can anyone please provide an actual clear, step by step basic guide?
I've had Logic 3 months now and just don't know how to do this yet, and have yet to actually find it in the manual!!
thx

http://www.sonikmatter.com/wiki/index.php/Tutorial:MultiChanAudioSetup

How do I set up Kontakt with Mainstage 2?

I'm new to mainstage. I love my kontakt plug ins and wanna use them in conjuction with Mainstage sounds and have the ability to add compression eq and all that stuff to it. How do I set up Kontakt to work in Mainstage?

That depends on how you want to connect, and what iPad you have.
Do you have a WiFi only iPad?
If you are in the US, do you have a AT&T GSM iPad, or a Verizon CDMA iPad?

LE7 crashed?

I'm posting this for a friend who's LE7 just crashed. He got the following messages:
error readi/writing file "com.apple.logic.espress.cs''
logical end-of-file reached during read operation
any ideas on what caused this or how to fix it?

To add to ACT's post:
As Clangwork stated in the thread a few down titled:
"Trashing Preferences"
"If you want to trash your preferences you can do: when you'll relaunch Logic the next time you will be asked if you want to use the Setup Assistant.
The .cs preference is related to control surfaces."
WH
old G4 Mac OS X (10.4)

Can you use specific Core MIDI inputs in LE7?

In various other MIDI applications on OS X, you can see a list of the current Core MIDI inputs and outputs, usually for the purpose of telling the application which input(s) and output(s) to use. For instance you might want to use something like MidiPipe to modify MIDI messages in the chain before a software instrument like DrumKitFromHell or VSamp. To do this you can set MidiPipe to use the input from the MIDI controller and then set, say, VSamp to use the output from MidiPipe as its input.
Is there any way to do this with LE7? I want the MIDI path to be:
1. My MIDI controller
2. MidiPipe
3. LE7
There seems to be no way in LE7 for me to say: Use MidiPipe as the MIDI input. LE7 just seems to take over the physical MIDI input, bypassing Core MIDI altogether.
Does anyone know any way to tell LE7 to use a specific Core MIDI input?
Thanks!
Will
Dual Core 2.3GHz PowerMac G5, 2GB RAM, ATI X1900 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) Canon Digital Rebel XT, Edirol UA-5

If it supports the Makie protocol, it might work... but I wouldn't purchase one on that basis without trying it first.

Problem with pages and kontakte

On my macbook (OSX 10.6.8) with "Pages '08 (3.0.3)" and "Adressbuch (5.0.3)", personalizing documents with contacts data works very well (e.g. "Mit Adressbuch-Daten zusammenführen..."). However, on my iMac (10.8.5) there is no "Adressbuch" but "Kontakte (7.1)" and personalizing does not work ("Keine Einträge im Adessbuch"). It looks like Pages tries to find "Adressbuch" and ignores "Kontakte".
Please help to solve this problem. Thanx

I found the solution to my problem in the discussion
Contacts to Pages Mail Merge in Mountain Lion Broken?
So I need no further help as to this tpic. Thanx

How to send multiple midi channels to a single Kontakt Player?

I can send any channel to a Kontakt Player. But only 1 channel at a time. When I have 2 tracks dedicated a single Kontakt Player how do I assign them to different channels so that the Kontakt player responds multi-timbrally?
I can't believe that I cannot figure this out. It's a little embarrasing.

create multiple tracks that use same instrument. After you create your 1st software instrument track you can create more tracks that use that same instrument, from the track menu. Select, "New with same channel strip/instrument. you can create as many as you like.
But since they are using the same channel strip, you will have to mute and un-mute differently because muting one mutes all, so instead of muting the track itself, mute the region on a track using the mute tool.

Outlook 2010 unter Exchange 2010: Kontakte nach Excel exportieren

Hi all,
a user wants to export contacts from a shared folder to Excel. He gets following error message:
"An ODBC error has occurred in the Microsoft Excel 97-2003 translator while opening a file to build a field map.
[Microsoft] [ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified."
No problem to Export to a *.pst file or to a *.csv file. Also no Problem to export his own contacts to Excel.
I found the problem often described in the World Wide Web, but no solution. Does anybody know, how to solve the Problem? Or have users to live with the workaround (*.csv)?
Cheers,
Lisa
Hallo zusammen,
ich wurde mit folgendem Problem konfrontiert: Anwender will Kontakte aus dem freigegebenen Ordner seines Chefs nach Excel exportieren, erhält aber eine Fehlermeldung:
"An ODBC error has occurred in the Microsoft Excel 97-2003 translator while opening a file to build a field map.
[Microsoft] [ODBC Driver Manager] Data source name not found and no default driver specified."
Export in *.pst- oder *.csv-Datei funktioniert. Export der eigenen Kontakte in Excel-Datei ist ebenfalls kein Problem.
Der Fehler wird im Internet häufig beschrieben, jedoch habe ich keine Lösung gefunden. Vielleicht ist euch eine Lösung bekannt? Oder gibt es keine und man sollte sich mit dem Export nach *.csv abfinden?
Viele Grüße
Lisa

Please try to hold on CTRL and right click Outlook.exe to launch it with Administrator to test the behavior.
Test if we can go into excel and import an access database.
Test if we can export the calendar from outlook to a .csv file.
Try to disable add-ins from within Outlook, File > Options > Add-ins > Go
Try to reboot the machine through msconfig (without any non-Microsoft programs/Servise running).
Based on my experience, this programs might be caused by ODBC related, check if we have the enough permissions of the ODBC drivers and go to the ODBC Data Source Administrator window (Start | Control Panel| Administrative Tools | Data Sources (ODBC)), check
if there is Excel File entries under the DSN, if no, add it manually.
At last, we may also run ProcMon and find the clue from procmon logs. Feel free to post it back. Have a good time.
Cheers,
Tony Chen
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Logic Not Reading Kontakt 3 correctly

I think this is a leopard problem because all works well in... GUI is white like this http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/633/picture1ixy.png I know it's not a NI problem. It works fine on the studio tower but not on this imac... I installed Prokit 5.0. still nothing... even though it affects Kontakt it seems to be something in my 10.5.8 please help. thanks!

Open the Midi event editor and check the recorded controller events. Probably the EV-5 is transmitting wrong data to the physical Input of Logic.

Bug Bug Buggy....LE7.2.3

I'm having some weird issues lately with LE7.2.3, I want to try and describe them here to see if anyone else is having similar issues...
1.While recording a track, LE7 stops drawing the track as I go, it draws it for about 5-10 measures and then looks as if I'm not even recording, just playing back. I've had to stop in mid-take a couple of times to make sure that it's still recording (thus ruining the take), then the rest of the event finally shows up... weird.
2. Random vertical white lines are appearing around the environment window, like little graphic glitches.
3. On certain projects I can't change the name of the track/channel, when I go to edit the track name, I can type in the blue popup box but it doesn't save in the track itself, it just retains the default "track 5" name or whichever.. When I try it again, the name I typed earlier is still in the popup field, but it won't change the name.
Could this be a memory issue? I've never had these issues before the recent update...

Hi dreamsareweird, Questions 1 and 2 are known issues with Logics graphics engine. Do a search on these forums and you'll find many posts talking about it.
As far as question 3 goes, try holding down Option and double clicking the track name to rename it. That's how I do it and it works fine for me. Good luck.
Stootka

Q about using Kontakt player

I'm a new user to the Kontakt player, which came with Garritan's Personal Orchestra, and I have a question about how the Kontakt player is generally used in Logic.
It seems the optimal way of using it is to assign the Kontakt Player to an Audio Instrument, and then have multiple tracks assigned to that Audio Instrument, each sending on different MIDI channels. Is that right?
The minor thing I don't like about this is that I can't use different track icons in the Arrange window, since track icons seem to be attached to the Audio Instrument. I rather like seeing my orchestra laid out with pictures.
So.. is this the right way of using it, or would there be too much overhead in bringing in a separate instance of the Kontakt Player for each track?
Thanks,
Steven

Just to clarify things... Velocity is not the same as Volume.
Volume is controlled via midi controller #7, Velocity is another type of midi control message, and is input with each note you play, (the value zero for velocity is like having volume at zero, but they are two different types of messages, velocity increases as you play harder, the max value for velocity is 127.
When using multi-instruments in logic, (i.e. Kontakt) due to Logic's midi implentation, it uses controller #7 for the entire audio instrument, hence all your multi midi parts move together when you move contoller #7 (Volume controller). One way around this is to use the expression controller, which is controller #11, instead of controller #7 to independently control the volume of each midi part.

Macbook Pro 15" + DROBO FW800 + KONTAKT PLAYER?

Hi Everyone,
I'm use my Macbook mostly for preproduction and programming.
I want to purchase Kontakt Komplete and East/West Quantum Symphony Platinum. Each of these requires about 100GB of space to host the instruments on your hard drive, which is what I want (I figure i won't utilise the packages completely if I don't have instant access to all of their features.
This also means that I should start preparing for a work-around solution for future purchases as well, given that I'm probably going to want more instruments and my first purchase of a Mac Pro will only occur in about two years, realistically.
What I was thinking was this:
DROBO 4 Hard Drive with 3 x 1 TB Hard Drives - These would be Western Digital Caviar Black Firewire 800 Drives (7200RPM):
1 Hard Drive I use for my Instrument Libraries
1 Hard Drive I use for storage
1 Hard Drive for back up (duplicate of storage)
My current workflow is that I use a small 120GB partition for production (the other 250GB is for the System) - this partition is ONLY for Logic, so that searching is easier for the processor. As soon as that partition gets a bit full, I copy the entire drive to a hard drive, duplicate that and then format - ready to start from fresh. I also run Time Machine.
So my question is this:
Would that drive mentioned above be able to handle the libraries in real time? i.e. could I have all of my instruments stored on an external hard drive and work seamlessly?
Thanks for your help!
James

Even if you had the space on your internal drive, it could never cope with EWSO platinum if you started opening up more than a few instruments, so external is the way to go.
I am unfamiliar with the drive setup you are talking about, but I take it that all of the drives would be sharing a single FW800 port... all your VI samples, audio tracks etc.
Hmm. FW800 is good, but have you investigated eSATA? On my MBP there is a slot which can accommodate an eSATA card, which would give you throughput nearly matching an internal SATA drive, somewhere in the order of 3mbs. Now we're talking. Even on my MacPro, hard drive speed became an issue with a lot of orchestral VI's open, so I'd be looking into it a bit more, and asking a few more questions. Ideally from someone who knows more than me.

Issues with Kontakt 5

Hi,
I know the issue is more Kontakt 5 related, but there's no better place than apple forums to get the answers..
So basically, everytime i restart my mac and load a new project in logic, I have to manually load all the instruments that I use for Kontakt 5 (Drums, Bass, Piano).
I was wondering if there's something that I could do to avoid loading them manually..??
Also, I've ordered 4GB apple ram's for my mac because 2GB ram was giving me overloading issues. My mac has around 100GB HD space free and runs on 2.26 core 2 duo. Will the ram upgrade solve my issue ..??
Thanks and Regards,
Gaggy ..

Kontakt: load all your sounds, then:
...next time open the template instead of an empty project...
Your RAM upgrade will help, especially since you're using Kontakt, which can use a fair amount of RAM. And if you have too little RAM, the OS will dump RAM content to disk, but it will also have to read RAM content from disk sometimes or even all the time, and all this loading and unloading activity can max out the CPU; OTOH , your overloads could also simply be purely CPU-related, in which case the extra RAM will do little or even nothing to alleviate the problem. So: it depends. But it is a good idea nevertheless.
You have 100 GB free? On a 500 GB disk? Keep it at that, it's the recommended minimum "20 % free space" margin.

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