Michael Warren

Your solution worked, but for 3 years. With audio interface ( steinberg) never had a problem. Thanks for the fixit tip. Consider this thread closed

That seemed to work, but why? I haven't tried starting CWB from a hard reboot of the PC yet, but at least I'm back with no latency in the program which I had previously.

You should have the option of changing the Global ID for your controllers. That way they are recognized as 2 different devices. I don't have 2 Units, but if they have the same common global ID, they would be seen as one.

I haven't used the app you are using, but found many times that the keyswitch has to be dropped one or two octaves to work. I actually keep an info book for all my Kontakt instruments with the register that the keyswitch actually works in. It doesn't reflect what the manual lists in many cases. Just a thought.

I believe after the last update, the program locks up at the splash screen. I am currently using Version 2019.12 (Build 26, 64bit). I can restart machine and it will then work, but usually not when I first start it. I use a Dell Optiplex 9010. 24Gb of memory, a 1T SSD where the program is located. I don't have this problem with any other program on first start. This is a recent event. I'm using an Intel I7 at 3.4 ghz so I have plenty of computing power. I wanted to try to roll back the update (Using W10 64bit Pro) but I don't have the option in programs for Cakewalk. I hate to uninstall and reinstall. That could be a nightmare with all my paid plugins and orchestral patches. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, what was your solution. Thanks in advance, Mike Warren

Does anyone have an idea on how this is done? I look in all the presets, and I see rotary, buttons, and sliders but no transport buttons. Does that mean I map my contrller transports to mmc and it bypasses ACT and sends directly to cakewalk by bandlab? Thanks in advance

I had a lot of problems with the a800. First it didn’t integrate seamlessly with sonar. More importantly every piano sample sounded distorted or strange pitch in lower octave except for kontakt piano sample. One of the other sampled pianos went from C to B when I moved up to Db a 1/2 step away. Mod wheel had a drop in vol for a 1/2 second when increasing modulation. Releasing modulation wheel dropped output to zero. I programed a slider as modulation, but that’s not how I want to work. Pluging oxygen 49 back in, all piano samples worked flawlessly in lower octave. On the maudio, you can program multiple velocities to trigger 3 different brass effects, not on a800. You also have option of programming Midi mmc for transport. Not on A800. I realize I’ve only had it 3 days,but maudio was up and running in 3 hours. Plus side was kybd felt great.

I’m waiting for my unit to arrive today. I wondered if the sliders let you enter data for 2 different values like my old maudio. For ex in jabb cc15 controls multiple brass effects. A value of 33 to 63 triggers one effect,64 to 100 another. You get the idea. Hate using multiple sliders for 3 brass articulation effects. Thanks, Mike Warren

I just ordered a roland a800 pro. Comes with a map for Sonar. I’m hoping this does the job. Check this out on you tube. May do the job for you. It’s arriving today. I’ll try to respond tomorrow with a review.

Thanks, that should work. I appreciate you taking time to answer

Is there a way of having metronome default to 1 bar count in instead of always changing 0 bars to 1 looked through the .ini files, but didn’t see anything. I know it seems trivial but it saves a step. I mean globally, not for that one composition, but every new piece would default to 1 bar count off.

I usually drag addictive drums in to have multiple outs for each trap piece. Old habits die hard for player. Live and learn. Now that I've used up my reservoir of cliches Thank you again. I'll post tomorrow after trying out.

You may have solved my problem. This option doesn't appear when adding Kontakt as FX in audio track. If I drag from the browser, it gives me the midi out option. Now midi tracks let me input output of the Kontakt player to that track. I've been on this all day and don't have the time to experiment except for dragging from explorer, and seeing that output now appears in the input dropdown box. Thanks a million in advance if it works. I'll respond again tomorrow. Mike Warren

In some other Daws, you can route another Kontakt Instrument to trigger Midi on a separate other instrument. Ex: Kontakt Library patch to a vintage horns patch. I go to Kontakt preferences and select Send Midi to Outside World, choose CCs and Notes. Looking at youtube examples other programs show a dropdown of Kontakt Out that you would select for the Input of a 2nd track. This doesn't appear as an option in Sonar. It only shows my input devices (Kybd, controller, etc., Virtual Instruments) , but no Kontakt out option. Is that not supported in Sonar or am I doing it wrong. I'm running Kontakt as a soft synth in Sonar, not as a stand alone instrument. I only use 1 instance of Kontakt and multiple midi tracks addressing different midi channels and patches in Kontakt Any ideas or workarounds any users came across? Thanks, Michael Warren

Problem Solved. In my first request for help, I mentioned that the company support was really good. Yesterday, I received a new .RAR file that I installed and the program is working great. I installed it 2 ways. First under my log in profile. (I'm in the admin group). I used pictures folder created in KONTAKT and the Pictures folder in KONTAKT 5 that already existed. I also logged in as Admin, went to the Documents folder, Native Instruments/Kontakt and created a picture folder there. I extracted to that folder also. Program now works as it should and is a great quick arranging tool for jazz band horns. Support has been great throughout. Matthew mentioned a utility called procmon. Another great utility since so many devices are using USB is USBDeview.exe This displays all of your USB devices and how much power they are drawing. Essential seeing if you are overextending your machines USB power max before it begins to prioritize or act strangely. Always suggest you use a USB device with individual power supply for each port and not just rely on your computer. You might search for usbdeview-x64 Closing out this request for help. Put in a 1Tb SSD yesterday and my additional 16gb of memory came today which bumps me up to 32gb. Life is good.

Matthew, thanks again for your effort to help me. I installed those pictures and txt files to that folder. ( several times ). In the same path to kontakt 5 is a folder called kontakt. From what I understand, that is the kontakt 6 folder. I even created a pictures folder in that directory and duplicated the files from kontakt 5/pictures. A holy Mary attempt. Didn’t help. Since this post, I deleted all files from the app and reinstalled with no improvement. The files to download for the app consist of 11 .rar files. You only extract the first, and it links and extracts to all the others. Since this post, my 1 tb ssd arrived. I’m going to move my c: with data and files cloning to the new ssd. That should be a piece of cake.( in a perfect world). I will wait until I hear from support, but no later than one more day Again, I appreciate all your suggestions. Users like you are what makes this forum a great help to other users. Mike Warren

Forgot about Procmon. I used it a lot when working as a tech years ago. Filtered on Kontakt.exe and access to folder that I name Straight Ahead. No errors appeared. I'm still at a loss because the file containing pictures is parsed correctly for all of the single instruments, it also contains the multi pictures, but does not parse them out for the patch. Thanks for trying, it's appreciated. Still at square one. I'm waiting on support today. They usually respond in one day and are interested in helping me resolve problem.

First let me say support has been great in trying to resolve my problem. I purchased program at a great price about a week ago. Primarily for its auto harmonize feature. The instruments are fine, but when using multi, the skin that contains description of sliders and other info does not appear. That includes the notation sceen of the voicings of the multi instruments. That was the main reason for purchasing. I have v2 released in 2017. What is really strange to me, when searching problems with this product on google, the only results are their videos or reviews. Not one result by an individual making a positve or negative comment. Thats almost impossible to believe unless they only sold one copy to me. Has anyone purchased this? If so, what’s been your experience with it. I’m using it with kontakt 6 full version. Thanks

I was dissapointed. Samples are great, but only about 10 % of articulations of the full blown program. For the money I expected a lot more. Save your money for a full version.

Aopolgys for horrible spelling mistake preferrence unchecked

In preference menu, There is option to zero controllers on start. Have you unchecked that feature? That might explain controllers resetting to zero data.

I can turn on the scrub tool by the key combination + j. The only problem is that I can't hear anything while clicking and dragging. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks in advance.

I just open piano roll view and enter articulation note in this screen. Most articulation keyswitches are 1 to 2 octaves below yhe instruments lowest range so they are not heard. It has to entered a few ticks before the note you are going to effect. Some people duplicate track using new articulation sample, mute it and delete notes they don’t want the effect on. You can duplicate track several times the assign same midi channel to all with each track having a different articulation sample.

My mistake. I was expecting to see B1,B2!etc. from dropdown. Forgot I renamed “ Forward, Stop, Record, etc. “ So when I saw in dropdown, I thought I was looking at action, and not renamed buttons. Duh! As I said in original post, I’d still appreciate if someone could send me The Mackie Act presets. I don’t think that would violate any copyright rules. Maybe the moderator would have more info about that Thanks to all