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updated to 4.2.3 now having problems with Alicia's Keys and others

Discussion in 'KONTAKT' started by dadsquared, Aug 9, 2011.

  1. dadsquared

    dadsquared New Member

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    Hi,

    I kind of dislike making my first post here a complaint, so I apologize in advance.

    First, the system: iMac, running 10.6.4, 3.08Ghz processor, 8 gigs RAM, and I run Kontakt inside Reaper.

    for the past few weeks, I've been having fun running Alicia's Keys and my other piano libraries (mostly AcousticSamples) in Kontakt. I upgraded Kontakt this past friday to 4.2.3 (from 4.2.2), and now, I'm getting some odd sustain pedal artifacts when rendering a file, and this is affecting all the libraries. Just as a test, I ran the acousticsamples libraries (mainly the Kawai EX) inside acousticsamples ASP player, rendered a file, and there were no problems at all. I also recorded and rendered a pianoteq file (it has it's own player) and everything was fine.

    While I'm actually recording and playing the midi in Kontakt, everything is fine. When I play back the file in reaper, everything sounds fine. But when the file renders, the "drops" are there- it's like the sustain pedal is dropping notes.

    I suppose one solution to this is to stop using a sustain pedal... :) but I'd prefer not to. I was wondering if anyone else has encountered this? And I was also wondering if there was a way to roll back to the previous version of Kontakt? I have a fairly large project happening at the moment, and I'm kind of tired of chasing these gremlins!

    thanks in advance for any advice you might have,

    Jeff
     
  2. EvilDragon

    EvilDragon Well-Known Member

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    Never noticed this, and I have 4.2.3 and 4.2.2 on my PC at the same time.
     
  3. dadsquared

    dadsquared New Member

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    Hi EvilDragon,

    Thanks for the input (I've always enjoyed your insights on the pianoteq forum!). It's a bit of a random thing, which I can cure somewhat by inserting some CC's in Reaper. I can make it happen very regularly by recording something using, say, Alicia's Keys, then switching libraries to a Galaxy piano or acousticsamples. And it did not use to do this. I'm wondering if there's a way to make what I'm using as a midi controller (a Kawai CN33) to send only on/off with the sustain pedal, as opposed to half-pedaling (I forgot the proper term, I think) that it usually does- I can't find that in the manual, though...

    Now I'm wondering how to get 4.2.2 on my iMac! :)
     
  4. EvilDragon

    EvilDragon Well-Known Member

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    For filtering out the sustain pedal values, you'll need a short multiscript. This quick and dirty one will apply ignoring of CC64 values 1-126 for ALL MIDI channels:

    Code:
    on midi_in
        if ($MIDI_COMMAND = $MIDI_COMMAND_CC and $MIDI_BYTE_1 = 64 and in_range($MIDI_BYTE_2,1,126))
            ignore_midi
        end if
    end on
     
  5. Sagantech

    Sagantech New Member

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    Sounds exactly like the problem discussed in this thread. Scroll down to the post from yesterday to see a possible workaround!