Nigel Mackay

Nope. Nigel just didn't read ALL the information. ?

You might be able to do some of it with the MIDI Event Filter FX.

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Spitfire LABS is not a Kontakt instrument. When you install it you select where to put the library and the plug-in. Run the Spitfire Audio app, and have a look around to see where you installed everything. Make sure that the location of the VST is in you scan path. If you run the app you can relocate parts to better folders if you so wish. It appears under Instruments in Browser. Guitar Rig 6 is an FX. It must be in your scan path. It appears in Browser as an Audio FX, and you add it to the FX rack of an audio track. Traktor DJs are standalone products. They are meant for live DJ work. You get a simulated DJ desk on your desktop or iPad. Reaktor is a DAW. Has its own instruments and effects. Look up Reaktor and Traktor on YouTube. Neither of them have anything to do with Cakewalk. It might be a good idea to start from scratch, installing everything properly, in suitable folders. Each Kontakt library must be an intact folder structure. You unzip them into your master Kontakt Library folder. Whatever you want to name it. Things like GuitarRig must be done properly. The various bits need to know where the other bits are.

Got together with Spitfire Audio. They have problems with their installer. Doesn't write the config files to all users. With me, placed the files under a phantom user. Had to copy to the correct location.

I don't offhand know of a good tutorial about the concept of using Kontakt. Kontakt plays VSTs designed to be played in Kontakt. And only those designed to be played in Kontakt. You put Kontakt in your VST folder. (Not the other stuff.) In your project you insert Kontakt from the list of instruments. Create a folder called Kontakt Instruments or whatever, and insert the folders of all those NI instruments as sub-folders. This is not essential, you can have them all over the place and add them one by one, but it is easier to keep track if they are in a master folder. In Cakewalk, you open the GUI of the inserted Kontakt, and click on Manage Libraries. You use the Add Libraries button to add all those folders. When you close Manage Libraries you will have the familiar list of libraries that you have seen in videos. On YouTube go to Creative Sauce and see the tutorials on using Kontakt Multiple Outputs. Also have a look what is recommended in the Tutorials section of the Forum. Be aware that something like Blocks Base needs to be played inside Reaktor. You can search YouTube for guides about that sort of thing. BTW If you use the + at the top of the track pane to add Kontakt (choose Instrument rather than Audio) you can limit the number of audio tracks Kontakt creates. If you drag from the Browser the Limit To entry does not work with Kontakt. EDIT In YouTube search for kontakt library install. Plenty of tutorials.

Kontakt is not the best way to learn how to use a DAW, much too much to learn. Put all that stuff in a folder called Kontakt Stuff for Later When I have Learned. Then watch this video. (Ignore the Audio Inputs setup bit because you don't have an audio input interface.) Play with the SI Bass, Drums, Strings and Piano. The watch this video. More videos to watch: 1 2 Watch this and then immediately this.

That would be up to a particular VST how it interprets such an event. It could never be a Cakewalk thing. Overlapping notes are usually, legato, glissando or hammer-ons. Pitch bend is improbable.

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I assume multi-timbral.

Install both. Try the VST3. If it gives problems, disable it and use the VST2. For this use the excellent Plug-ins Manager.

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It would have to be Key at the Now marker, because of modulation.

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I have tried Repair, Reset, Relocate, you name it. Nothing clears Error #3. I have tried the VST and VST3. No luck. Looked in YouTube. Nothing. Google only finds their guide. Anybody know what I can do to get it to work?

Check Edit -> Preferences -> Audio -> Playback and Recording. If Driver mode is WAAPI Exclusive, change it to WASAPI shared.

Almost no synths do. Multiple audio channels out (drum kits for example,) but all incoming data is on a single channel.

Most, but not all, convert by using Import in the articulation map editor. When you import it even asks you where to store the converted articulation map before it imports it.?

You can get different levels/volumes by having different velocities/expressions (depending on the synth) on the different tracks. But the synth doesn't really care which track the MIDI data comes from, it produces audio. And so Pan can't be controlled before the synth. The only option is 2 instances of the synth. What synth is it? Maybe other advice you can get.

Do you have any FX - reverb, EQ, etc - applied and when you bounce, do you select to have everything applied? Are the audio racks of the synth and the bounced track routed the same? Are the Gains and Levels of the synth tracks and the bounced tracks set the same?

Leaving that pitch-bend sensitivity out is fine, 256 = 2 semitones, which is the default value.

Regarding drum maps, watch this and this.

In the top-right corner of the GUI window is a mapping pin. Click that.

With a MID file there are autorun SysEx messages. Don't suppose they do run with a project file. There is a SysEx viewer if I remember correctly. It seems if you remove all non-note data that it doesn't crash. Delete one at a time to see when it stops crashing. ?

Save under a temp name and delete all events except notes. If that works, do the other events type by type. Easy enough if you select only one type at a time in the View menu. Depending on what happens, you can then look for the specific one which is the problem. A pain, I know.