chest
02-04-2007, 11:18 AM
I'm a beginner with EWQLSO, so far only dabbling with it for familiarisation, so I hope you'll forgive the basic questions in this posting (and perhaps in subsequent ones).
I'll probably upgrade to Play, but even so I'd like to know how to make good use of the NI versions - hence the following...
. . (1) It appears on this forum that users who have Kontakt generally strongly recommend using that rather than the Kompakt players that come with the software. At present I have only v1.5 of Kontakt, though I'm very likely to upgrade soon, in spite of having read about bugs in v2. Is there any reason to use v1.5 in preference to v2 for EWQLSO? (I understand that the original v2 wasn't suitable?)
. . (2) So far, I've found three things that I prefer about the Kompakt players over Kontakt 1.5: the keyboard that displays which keys an "instrument" uses; the selectability of velocity response (though the curves are hard to select); and the smaller window. I know Kontakt v2 has valuable features like the memory purging and the flexibility of the scripting language. Also although Kompakt will save instruments/multis wherever you want, (I think) it'll only load from the installation folders(?) whereas Kontakt doesn't have this restriction. But are there circumstances where users with a choice would in fact opt for Kompakt?
. . (3) I seem to experience differences between Kompakt & Kontakt when playing the big string ensembles live at the keyboard. Perhaps because my PC is a little underpowered (and because I haven't begun tweaking the settings properly) I'll get occasional pops in Kontakt when playing four-to-five-note polyphony in the big string ensembles with all three mic positions turned on. But when I play in the same way using Kompakt, some notes don't sound at all until the keys are released, wherupon the release samples are heard. Is this a familiar happening with a known cure?
I'll probably upgrade to Play, but even so I'd like to know how to make good use of the NI versions - hence the following...
. . (1) It appears on this forum that users who have Kontakt generally strongly recommend using that rather than the Kompakt players that come with the software. At present I have only v1.5 of Kontakt, though I'm very likely to upgrade soon, in spite of having read about bugs in v2. Is there any reason to use v1.5 in preference to v2 for EWQLSO? (I understand that the original v2 wasn't suitable?)
. . (2) So far, I've found three things that I prefer about the Kompakt players over Kontakt 1.5: the keyboard that displays which keys an "instrument" uses; the selectability of velocity response (though the curves are hard to select); and the smaller window. I know Kontakt v2 has valuable features like the memory purging and the flexibility of the scripting language. Also although Kompakt will save instruments/multis wherever you want, (I think) it'll only load from the installation folders(?) whereas Kontakt doesn't have this restriction. But are there circumstances where users with a choice would in fact opt for Kompakt?
. . (3) I seem to experience differences between Kompakt & Kontakt when playing the big string ensembles live at the keyboard. Perhaps because my PC is a little underpowered (and because I haven't begun tweaking the settings properly) I'll get occasional pops in Kontakt when playing four-to-five-note polyphony in the big string ensembles with all three mic positions turned on. But when I play in the same way using Kompakt, some notes don't sound at all until the keys are released, wherupon the release samples are heard. Is this a familiar happening with a known cure?