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Symphony Series Percussion: microphone issues

Discussion in 'KONTAKT' started by Samuel P., Aug 20, 2021.

  1. Samuel P.

    Samuel P. New Member

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    Hi there!

    I'm getting really weird behaviors with the mic positions in Symphony Series Percussion. I did search the Internet and this forum to find a similar issue, but could not find any. So I guess it might be a problem on my end.

    There are two different issues.

    1) Gong 1 microphones

    This can be reproduced on my end with the standalone version of Kontakt (6.6.0). If I open Gong 1, select close, mid, far, and spot microphones, only spot will play. In fact, to be more accurate, whatever microphone I select, only the spot microphone will play and shows activity.

    In my DAW (Cubase Pro 11.0.30), if I route each microphone to st1, st2, st3 and st4 (my default kontakt preset has 8 stereo outputs), I can clearly see in the mix console that only st4 is playing something.

    I tried many things (like batch-resaving) but the problem is still there. Can anyone reproduce this behavior or is the problem on my end? I'd really like to know! What should I do to fix it?

    2) Far microphone routing not saved with a project

    This one may be related to my DAW and is extremely annoying. This concerns all instruments from Symphony Series Percussion.

    Steps to reproduce the issue on my end:
    * File > New project > More > Empty > Create project
    * Add instrument track with Kontakt, pick any instrument from the Symphony Series Percussion, let's pick Gong 2 for example.
    * Select microphones close, mid, far and spot and route them to st1, st2, st3 and st4.
    * In the track inspector, click on the icon at the right of Kontakt to enable outputs st2, st3 and st4.
    * Play something, and you can see all 4 microphones correctly playing in the mix console.
    * Save the project: File > Save
    * Close the project: File > Close
    * Open the project: File > Open
    * Play anything, now you can see the far microphone is not playing...
    * To fix it, go back in Kontakt, change the Far microphone routing to default then st3
    * Saving again won't solve the issue: each time I load a project, I know I have to fix the far microphone of all instruments from Symphony Series Percussion. So annoying!

    Can anyone else confirm this behavior or is it just me? Any idea how to fix this?

    Sorry for the long message! Thanks in advance for your answers.