Using ELECTRIC SUNBURST

To select a pattern using your MIDI keyboard, press the corresponding keyswitch MIDI note.

To select a pattern via the user interface, click on the pattern you wish to use.

To play a pattern, play chords on your MIDI keyboard. After releasing the keys, playback will be stopped within a specified note duration (see the Latch Mode section in chapter The Playback Page).

To stop the playback, either trigger one of the three endings (see section Playing Endings and Slides) via keyswitch, or release all keys on your keyboard.

Strumming patterns: Strumming patterns are based on recorded loops. If you play more than one single note, additional single notes will be added on top of the originally recorded loop. For best results, do not play too many notes a time.

Arpeggio patterns: When playing arpeggio patterns, the playback engine analyzes the incoming chord and allocates the individual notes to different strings of the guitar. The more notes you press on the keyboard, the more sophisticated the resulting arpeggio will sound. Therefore, playing up to six notes at a time can lead to interesting variations. Depending on the selected pattern, several notes of an incoming MIDI voicing will be performed as hammer-ons and pull-offs on a single string.

Riffs: Riffs come as pre-recorded performances. However, they adapt to incoming chords by chromatically adjusting individual notes of the riff to the incoming chord. For example, if the preset riff contains minor thirds and sevenths, pressing a Cma7 voicing on the keyboard will cause the playback engine to adapt the pattern in such a manner, that the minor third is replaced by a major third and the minor seventh is replaced by a major seventh.

make use of an intelligent voicing generator, and/or

activate the Auto Chords mode.

To enable or disable the voicing generator, select a pattern, and then click on the Voicing drop-down menu.

Each pattern offers five individual, pre-defined voicings that suit it well. If you press only one single key, you will hear the unaltered voicing preset. If you press thirds, sixths, sevenths and/or other options, the voicing preset will be adapted accordingly.

To take full control of your voicings, disable the voicing generator by selecting “as played”.

To enable or disable the Auto Chords mode, click on the little power button next to the Auto Chords button. The Auto Chords mode can be combined with the voicing generator and provides the most basic chords (major and minor as well as some options), auto-mapped and auto-transposed on the white keys.

To show or hide the Auto Chords Panel, click on the Auto Chords button.

To set the key of your song, select the key and mode from the drop-down menus. This will transpose/shift the chord layout such that, in case of a major key, the root pitch will always be assigned to the original C key; in case of a minor key, the root pitch will always be mapped to the original A key.

To play chords in the Auto Chords mode, simply click or play a single white key anywhere in the chord range (see keyboard layout of section Pattern Selection and Playback). This will play the chord labeled on that key. In other words, no matter which key and mode you choose, you can always play the seven diatonic pitches (plus the diminished seventh pitch) with the white keys from C to B (plus the B flat key, which is represented as a white key as well).

To add options or suspensions, click, or play and hold, any of the labeled black keys. To remove an option or suspension, click the corresponding key again, or release that key on your MIDI keyboard.

To exclude the Auto Chords settings from Songs or snapshots, click the lock icon in the top left corner of the Auto Chords Panel (see section Locking Parameters When Loading Snapshots or Songs).

To trigger an ending with the current chord, play any of the three keyswitches from G#1 up to Bb1 with the intended intensity (i.e. velocity). These ending keys are marked yellow in KONTAKT's on-screen keyboard. When an ending is played back, the current pattern playback will be stopped.

To trigger an ending with a different chord, hit the new chord just before triggering the desired ending keyswitch. As a result, only the ending chord will be played back with the new chord.

To play a slide sound, play the B1 key, marked in green, with the intended intensity (i.e. velocity).

To adjust the Impact slider with the mouse, drag the Impact slider. The default center position can be recalled via [Cmd] + click.

To adjust the Impact slider via MIDI, move the pitchbend wheel on your MIDI keyboard. The default center position of the Impact slider should correspond with the default center position of your pitchbend wheel.

To load a factory or user sound preset, either

To save a new user sound preset, enter a preset name into the field and click on the floppy disk icon. This will store the current sound settings (see chapter The Guitar Settings Page), including the Voicing and Impact slider positions, into a new user preset.

To overwrite a user sound preset, click on the floppy-disk icon again, after you've changed sound settings, without changing the preset name itself.

To delete a user sound preset, select it from the drop-down menu, then click the circular Delete button.

Linking sound presets to Song presets: When you check the Link to Song checkbox, each loading of a Song preset (see section The Song Browser) will recall and apply a specific factory sound preset.