Accessing 17-32 voices in Kontakt

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lamboguy
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Accessing 17-32 voices in Kontakt

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Hi Folks,

Running dp 4.61 on a mac mini, it's working great.

I have Kontakt 2.1.1 loaded and having a good old time playing voices 1-16.

How do I access Kontakt voices 17-32? They don't seem to show up in DP as 1-16 do.

I recall SI had the same issue which was solved with a newer version, but I have the latest v. of Kontakt running.

I PROMISE I'll look at the manual too :D I'm just not sure which one to look at.

Thanks!

Fred
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Post by dtobocman »

Channels 17-32 are only available in stand alone mode. Instantiate a new Kontakt plug in DP for more than 16. Same difference.
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Post by lamboguy »

dtobocman wrote:Channels 17-32 are only available in stand alone mode. Instantiate a new Kontakt plug in DP for more than 16. Same difference.
Ah! Thank you very much. :)

Fred

PS: Wouldn't opening another Kontakt plug in use up more memory? or not?
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Post by aafarr2 »

not a significant amount. Either way, the only other way to access 16 more channels is to have the standalone plugged through Bidule, which itself would probably take up more RAM than 2 plug-ins. 2 Plug-ins is really not that much of an impact. Also keep in mind that their are only 16 DP MIDI channels as it is.

BTW, I use 2 Kontakt plug-ins for my virtural orchestras, and it works fine.




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Post by system6 »

What kind of mini? How's the performance?
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Post by lamboguy »

system6 wrote:What kind of mini? How's the performance?
I've actually forgotten :) but looking at "about this mac" it says:

Processor 1.5 GHz PowerPC G4
Memory 1 GB DDR SDRAM

Frankly, it works great. I'd say you can do anything as long as you don't overload it. By overloading I mean that when I run a loaded bank of polyphonic SI and then everybody is playing a lot (ie: full orchestra's worth of instrument) it'll start slowing down and/or breaking up.

But frankly, short of that it's terrific.

Fred
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