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Cinematic Studio Solo Strings Troubleshooting

Discussion in 'KONTAKT' started by Thomas O'Malley, Nov 14, 2021.

  1. Thomas O'Malley

    Thomas O'Malley New Member

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    Hello and thanks for your time!

    I currently purchased the Cinematic Studio Solo Strings and now I am using them in Cubase.
    First of all, my problem only occurs when I am in Cubase as the standalone Kontakt seems to work properly.

    However when I am in Cubase, load the instrument (it doesn't matter if Violin1/Violin2/Viola/etc.) and move one of the mic position faders, panning knobs or attack/release of the Sustain/Tremolo/Harmonics/Trills Articulation, all of them move simultaneously.
    The weirdest part is when I load multiple instances of the instruments into one Kontakt instance, all the faders of all CSSS instruments are moving as well.
    Also the modulation wheel next to the piano is moving simultaneously. However the difference with the modulation wheel is, that my moving of it doesn't change any of the parameters other then the modwheel itself. Actually I went through all 128 Midi CCs to find a macro but none of them changed the parameters. They are only changed if I'll drag them with the mouse in Kontakt.

    If I load other similar instruments like the usual Cinematic Studio Strings into the same Kontakt instance, they are working properly without any problems. It seems to be only a problem with the Solo Strings.

    I'd be grateful for any help somebody can offer me. It seems to be a very weird problem but I am quite new to Kontakt and don't know where to start troubleshooting as I didn't find any similar problems on the internet so far.

    I linked two pictures showing how everything is moving.

    Thanks!

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  2. airflamesred

    airflamesred NI Product Owner

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    Add a midi monitor, I guess it is in the KSP button, and see what is being transmitted.
     
  3. Thomas O'Malley

    Thomas O'Malley New Member

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    Thanks for the great advice. I've just tried that but it seems as if no MIDI Controls are used to change the faders. Another weird thing is that the problem doesn't happen when I am using the Plugin in Logic Pro X.
    Any other ideas? :)
     
  4. airflamesred

    airflamesred NI Product Owner

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    Right click on the individual mic sliders.
     
  5. Thomas O'Malley

    Thomas O'Malley New Member

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    With that and assigning a MIDI CC I can move the faders individually which is great! Thanks for the help and I can definitely work a little around the problem with this feature.
    However if I accidentaly move the faders with the mouse again or load a new instrument into the instance, all the faders move together again.
    Any more ideas?
     
  6. airflamesred

    airflamesred NI Product Owner

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    Set it up how you want and 'save as'
    It's all in the manuals.
     
  7. Thomas O'Malley

    Thomas O'Malley New Member

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    Again thanks for the help!
    The problem with setting it up is, that even after adjusting the faders with the learned MIDI automation, when reloading the newly saved .nki instrument, the faders are leveled together again.
    Can it be possible that there is a makro in either Cubase or Kontakt which I can just deactivate about it? Or any other ideas?
     
  8. Theo van de Ven

    Theo van de Ven NI Product Owner

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    Must be a setting somewhere Thomas, I use CSSS within Cubase 11 pro and I can change the sliders seperatly without moving simultaneously