Kontakt et al.

We DON'T anymore need microtonal adjustment capability as a BONUS in
these software. These people need a complete vision update.

Oz.

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Chris Vaisvil wrote:
> The basic NI player that comes with the old EWQL is not capable of
> arbitrary microtuning.
>
> But the full version of Kontakt is capable of arbitrary equal
> divisions (I've done several 17 edo pieces this way) and most, if not
> all, sample instruments can be set to use adaptive JI, pure major,
> pure minor, Pythagorean, etc.... usual tunings - out of the box.
>
> With the script you are referring to I can additionally apply scala
> files and it seems to work very well.
>
> This free version of Kontakt 4 *might* be capable of tuning EDOs and
> using your EWQL samples - I don't know.
> http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/kontakt-player/?page=781
>
> The PLAY interface is weird - you don't even set pitch bends in cents
> - you set pitch bends in % of an octave. I think someone who was
> aggressively anti microtonal had a hand in developing it. Supposedly
> the next very of Play will have some micro ability - but I doubt it
> will be beyond well temperaments.
>
> Chris
>
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Mike Battaglia<battaglia01@...> wrote:
>> On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 7:48 PM, Chris Vaisvil<chrisvaisvil@...> wrote:
>>> EWQL Play interface is crap especially for microwork.
>>>
>>> In any case - Gene - I have Kontakt, Garritan Personal Orchestra,
>>> Garritan Jazz and Big Band, Garritan Marching Band, Kontakt with
>>> Vienna Symphony Library (subset) and of course pianoteq.
>> How are you retuning Kontakt - the $15 microtuning script? Do you find
>> it works well?
>>
>> Either way, I don't know what EWQL Play is, but the EWQL version that
>> I have uses "NI Kompakt," which seems to be a dumbed-down version of
>> Kontakt. My goal for a long time has been to get EWQL into Kontakt and
>> then find a way to microtune Kontakt. Once I do that, I'll probably
>> start writing lots and lots of music. Unfortunately, I'm in
>> Philadelphia, and my hard drive with everything I own is in Miami, and
>> so much for getting that done this break.
>>
>> -Mike
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