Digital Performer

[Andy B]

Has anyone been able to get more than 16 midi channels running Kontakt with Digital performer on the same machine? If I run multiple instances, all of them share the same 16 midi channels.

Can anyone help please?

Thanks,

Andy.

[Chaim Goldman]

Some have good results useing a VST wrapper with the kontakt vst plug-in, there you get more than 16 channels with multiple instances. But in stand alone it\'s only 16.

[Andy B]

Thanks for the reply Chaim. I know about the Audio Ease VST Wrapper, are there any others?

Andy.

[John DeBorde]

in my experience with VST wrapper, i get some weird interface effects, with parts of the interface jumping around. as far as i can tell, the audio quality is fine tho. still, i prefer to use kontakt in standalone mode because of this.

i get this with kontakt, lounge lizard ep-1 and hardcore bass\'s kompakt, but other VSTis work great with it.

hopefully this will all be fixed when NI gets everything up and running in DP for OSX.

HTH

[Andy B]

Hi John,
Are you able to have multiple instances of Kontakt and more than 16 midi channels, when running VST Wrapped inside Digital Performer? - and if so how?

Thanks,
Andy

[John DeBorde]

sorry for sidestepping your original question Andy. my recollection is that you can have multiple instances with access to more than 16 midi channels-each time you instantiate kontakt it is identified separately by the track name with 16 midi channels available-at least this is how it is with other VSTis.

frankly, it\'s been awhile since i\'ve used it in VST mode as i found the interface bugs pretty frightening. and now that i think about it, i think they might hinder any attempts to edit the patches.

kontakt takes a pretty big CPU hit anyway, so i question how many instances you\'d really be able to run. sorry i can\'t give you a more definitive answer.

[Rich Pell]

yea , thats the way its done in Cubase as well. e.g in your VST inst. rack ~Kontakt 1 has 16 midi cnls.,Kontakt 2 has its own 16 midi channels..etc etc..I can usually get about 5 instances going on 1 machine with P4 2.4 and 1 GB of ram. its great for orch. stuff. I have a feeling the new(1.5) update will accomodate DP better..Rich

[Andy B]

Thanks Guys.

Andy.