Confused about WB set-up

[dubaifox]

I have read the manual, looked at the videos, but still am clueless about how to use wordbuilder.

I am running Pro Tools on my Mac.

I have Kontakt2 on a seperate dedicated PC, where I have all of my EWQL libraries (including choirs) installed. I want the choirs to be loaded into Kontakt2, not the SC Kompakt interface.

I am not even sure if I install WB on my Mac, or on the PC?!

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

[Peterkjones]

Hi there. Not surprised you're confused, as a Protools/Mac user myself it's taken me ages. When you've cracked WB (and it takes some cracking) it's fine, but you can't get it up as a plug-in on Protools. It has to be used as a stand-alone in association with SC (which can appear as a VST plug-in - see page 120 of the manual - but then you only get the instruments and not the WB multis). It seems, therefore, it would be better not to install WB on the Mac if you've got everything else on PC, since i can't see the two talking to each other. PC users will be able to offer better advice, but it would be good to park the library in a partition or separate hard drive from the programme and ask it to go fetch. There are big memory restrictions and you'll need at least 2GB of Ram - with space at a premium a separated library is useful. I believe with PC you have to get Loop-back connector soft-ware to get WB to communicate with Kompact or Kontact, but Mac OSX provides them internally already. Why don't you want to use Kompact? Range limitations are the big bug-bear but by using Mac's core-audio and routing an analogue signal from the audio-out jack of the Mac and returning it to Protools via your I/O you can get some joy. It's a bit noisy but tweaking levels reduces this and it's worth it for having WB. I find that bringing in a low audio signal and then using Protools Gain plug-in (found in Other in the Plug-ins menu) minimises the problem and gives me tracks I can handle. Incidentally, Protools processing plug-ins and effects are so superior to SC that you can leave all those parameters (except volumes) as they are. I can give more info about how I solved this if it's of any use. Other people may have better/easier solutions. Have great success. PKJ

[Sam Fischmann]

Hello,

My personal advice would be to install WordBuilder by itself on the Mac, and Choirs on the PC. This way, you don't have to go to your PC to change words, everything you edit in your sequence is on the Mac.

Open up WordBuilder first, then Pro Tools. In Pro Tools, create a MIDI track. Set the output of this track to virtual WordBuilder 1. Then, in WordBuilder, set the in put to VWB1, and the output to one of your MIDI ports that's connected to your PC.

On the PC, have Kontakt 2 loaded, and listening to that MIDI port. MIDI then goes from Pro Tools into WordBuilder, and from WordBuilder into your PC (and thus Kontakt 2).

-Sam

[jpatty]

The translation to the latin might leave something to think about....

"Sanguis ,Bibimus , Corpus ,Edimus
Blood, We drink. Body, We eat.

Sanguis Bibimus We drink the blood
Corpus Edimus We eat the body
Tolle Corpus Satani Raise the body of Satan
Ave Welcome

Sanguis Bibimus We drink the blood
Corpus Edimus We eat the body
Tolle Corpus Satani Raise the body of Satan
Ave Welcom

Ave Ave Versus Cristus Good by, Good by, destroy Christ
Ave Ave Versus Cristus Good by, Good by, destroy Christ
Ave Ave Versus Cristus Good by, Good by, destroy Christ
Ave Satani" Welcome Satan

The music is great and really attracts the ear.

[wesleydevore]

Did you mean to post in this thread, JPatty? or am I missing a metaphor here :confused: