except the instrument’s own
Pedal CC
. So, in the exam-
ple above any CC from 55 to 64 (inclusive) would mute
the instrument.
Mute on CCs
is very useful in lead instruments when you
have several backing instruments held by different pedals
(using
Pedal holds...
when up
). By setting the
range to cover all the backing instruments’ pedals you can
ensure that the lead instrument does not play while you
are playing any of backing instruments.
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Pedalboard example
For the purposes of this example let’s assume we have a
10 pedal pedalboard that sends on CC’s 51 to 60.
Assume we have 5 lead instruments and 5 backing instru-
ments (a pad, two arpeggiators and two drum machines).
The first step is to set up the pedal board. For the lead
instruments we set the pedals to be latching (press to turn
off and press again to turn on). This will let us play any or
all of them at once.
For the backing instruments we set the pedals to be mo-
mentary (only on while pressed down). This will let us
press the pedal down, play something to be held and then
release the pedal.
Then we could make the following settings in Gtak6 for
each instrument:
Pedal Mode
Pedal
Mute
Pad
Hold when up
51
-
Arp 1
Up:Hold/Down:Sus
52
-
Arp 2
Up:Hold/Down:Sus
53
-
Drum 1
Mute when up
54
-
Drum 2
Mute when up
55
-
Lead 1
Mute when up
56
51-55
Lead 2
Mute when up
57
51-55
Lead 3
Mute when up
58
51-55
Lead 4
Mute when up
59
51-55
Lead 5
Mute when up
60
51-55
Then save the multi so we don’t loose all that work!
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Gtak6 in the Kontakt6 Library
We have tweaked the Kontakt6 Library in many ways to
make it easy to use with Guitar to MIDI converters. Most
obviously, we have added the Gtak6 script to each instru-
ment so you do not have to load it yourself.
We have also made more subtle changes:
• The transpose setting in Gtak6 has been set so that
the guitar can play the most notes possible. For in-
stance it is set to -24 (a shift down of two octaves) for
the Tuba. This means a guitar can play the Tuba’s
lowest notes.
• Pitchbend quantization has been set to a sensible
value for each instrument. For instance, for pianos
and organs pitchbend is set to quantized and new
notes are triggered, whereas for most stringed instru-
ments pitchbend quantization is set to auto.
• We have extended the range of most instruments to
match the guitar. For instance, the violins originally
only played down to G, by changing the range the low-
est sample we have made them play down to E. This
is slightly less realistic, but much more playable.
We have not extended instruments in the
Choir collection because they sound very
unnatural when extended.
So, the “Bass”,
“Tenor”, “Alto” or “Soprano” instruments will
only play over a limited range. The combined
instruments (with “Choir” in their names)
contain all the other samples and so play over
a much wider range.
We have also had to alter many of the scripts in the
Kontakt6 library to work with Gtak6 (mostly because of
strange behaviour in the KSP scripting system). This
should not effect you unless you want to load Gtak6 into
your own instruments derived from the library instru-
ments, see
for more details.
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