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Pedal Control using notes
You can control Gtak6’s pedal functions by playing notes
using the
Gtak note to CC
multiscript which gives you
six ‘virtual pedals’ mapped to six notes on your fretboard.
To use it:
1. Load the Gtak6 multi (
gtak6_multi.nkm
)
2. Access the multiscript editor by clicking the
KSP
but-
ton as shown below (to the left of
AUX
).
3. Click the first tab to get to the
Gtak note to CC
script
(due to a bug the tab may start out saying
<empty>
)
4. By default this multiscript is disabled, to enable it
click the Bypass button (the button is grey when the
multiscript is enabled)
Once you have enabled the multiscript:
1. Set the Midi Channel to match the channel of the
string you want to use for the notes to CC function.
By default this is set to 6, which corresponds to the
Low E string if you have your Base Channel set to 1.
If you are using multiple MIDI ports in Kontakt6 you
will have to choose the right one here (A,B,C or D),
otherwise just use A.
2. Set the Pitchbend range to match the setting on your
Guitar to MIDI converter.
By default the script is set to respond to six notes on the
Low E string starting from fret 13 and going up to fret 18.
These were chosen because they give you the option of
playing them by tapping with your non-fretting hand.
Below each note is a display showing what CC number is
sent (set to 127) when the note is played. You can change
the values of the notes and the CC’s they send individually.
The six virtual pedals work like buttons on an old car ra-
dio: when you press one down all the others pop up. This
makes it easy to keep track of what the pedals are doing
even if you can’t see the screen.
Once you have set up the multiscript you can use Gtak6
just like you would with a pedalboard, for instance to
switch between two sounds:
If you need more virtual pedals, there is a copy of the mul-
tiscript in the second slot (mapped to the 5
th
string).
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Custom Gtak6 downloads
Unfortunately, there is no central location where you can
make changes to settings in the KSP scripting system.
This means that if you want to use a pitchbend range of
24 you would have to go through each of the 1000 instru-
ments in the library, change the pitchbend range and save
the instrument. Or you could change the range each time
you loaded an instrument, but that would be very annoy-
ing.
To save you having to do this we have made available cus-
tom Gtak6 downloads with various different settings for
things like pitchbend range. Just go to the download page,
login, and click to go to the custom downloads page. The
form will look something like this:
Make your selections then click download. Finally, install
the files as described
If the custom option you need is not there, contact us and
we will see what we can do.
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