Kontakt Engine
Main | QuickControls | Modulation | Effects | Mixer/Layers | Fresco
Main
Articulations
The hamburger menu toggles the visibility of the Articulations panel
Each articulation can be enabled or disabled, have its volume controlled and can be purged from RAM to save memory.
When on a Layered patch, instead of Volume control, each articulation can be sent to any of the available layers (multiple layers can be selected.
Normal Patch
Layered Patch
Additional controls can be available at the bottom of the menu. For example, the Stack button will help you select either one or multiple Articulations at the same time.
Other options such as Release noises can be disabled by toggling the button.
Quick Controls
The quick controls are here to help you customise your sound without having to dig through settings. They are freely assignable to almost any control of the library.
To assign a control to either of the four quick controls, go to the control you want to assign, and SHIFT+CLICK on it, a menu will appear displaying the current four quick controls, select the control you want to assign to.
Modulation
Further controls on how the samples behave can be found in the modulation settings. By clicking on the modulator’s title, you can load the slot with any modulator available. You set the limits.
All modulators all global when the patch is not ‘Layered’. When on ‘Layered’ patches, some modulators are global and some others can be assigned to selected layers. Perfect for sound design.
ADSR
A straightforward modulator helps you control the Attack, Decay, Sustain and Release of the library.
Offset
The Offset control helps you control where the samples start from, it’s great for sound design!
Velocity
The Velocity modulator offers you three tools: Curve control, a velocity compressor and an intensity control. The Intensity control will help you set the volume intensity at which each velocity plays. The higher it is, the more sensitive the engine will be to velocity differences.
The Curve control allows you to adapt the velocity curve to your playing style and keys weight. You can also draw freely how you want the velocity to behave.
The Velocity compressor helps you limit the lowest and/or highest velocity you want to play, the engine will recalculate your playing style to always be organic and within the limits you set!
Dynamics
The Dynamics control helps you transition between dynamics of the instrument (if available). The Expression control helps you control the volume envelope to give life to your playing style.
When in “Layered” mode, this modulator can be applied only to selected layers.
Pitch
The pitch control allows you to adjust the pitch of the library by +/-24 semitones (2 octaves) The Glide control allows you to control the pitch of the library on a softer manner, it’s perfect to assign it to a MIDI CC and make the library glide tonally!
When in “Layered” mode, this modulator can be applied to selected layers.
Gate
The Gate modulator helps you create 8-step rhythmic patterns easily. Toggle the buttons to control how the sound behaves in each step.
The intensity control easily sets how intense the volume changes are between on and off buttons.
The rate sets the speed at which the gate moves, it can be Synced with your DAW tempo by clicking the Sync button.
When in “Layered” mode, this modulator can be applied to selected layers.
Volume LFO
The volume LFO helps you control the volume oscillator using different types of waveforms.
These can be combined between sine, triangle, square, sawtooth and random.
The intensity control easily sets how intense the volume changes are during the oscillation.
The rate sets the speed at which the LFO oscillates, it can be Synced with your DAW tempo by clicking the Sync button.
When in “Layered” mode, this modulator can be applied to selected layers.
Pitch LFO
The pitch LFO helps you control the pitch oscillator using different types of waveforms. These can be combined between sine, triangle, square, sawtooth
and random.
The intensity control easily sets how intense the volume changes are during the oscillation.
The rate sets the speed at which the LFO oscillates, it can be Synced with your DAW tempo by clicking the Sync button.
When in “Layered” mode, this modulator can be applied to selected layers.
Reset
To get the visible modulators back to their initial state, you can simply click on the ‘Reload’ button.
Effects
A versatile and customisable 5-rack effects section allows you to set which and how effects can enrich your sound. You have total control on how each effect behaves and, in the mixer, you can even control the routing of each effect in each of the channels.
Effects can be send to Microphone Positions / Layers independently. You can control if an effect is inserted in a Mic Position / Layer by toggling them on/off in the respective channels in the mixer.
Mixer / Layers
A uniquely crafted mixer will give you control on each of the channels available on the library. Not only can you control the typical volume/mute/solo controls, but you also have access to more advanced controls such as the effects and the channel tightness.
On top of each of the channels, you have the option to turn off the effects passing through that individual channel, this gives you a lot of control on
which effects affect which channels, helping you customise your effect chain in a unique manner.
A pan control will allow you to control the panning of each of the channels (not available in Ambisonics) and by clicking on the channel title, you can
purge the whole channel in order to have you RAM under control.
A traditional Volume control will help you control the signal of your channels to achieve the perfect mix.
The tighten/disalign control works a bit like an offset control, except at milisecond-level. This is perfect for controlling when a sample starts in order
to get rid of microphone delays due to distance or even playing with haas or comb-filtering effects to bring frequencies up or down. Additionally this can have an impact on the punch of some sounds.
Fresco Pad
We have designed Fresco Pad as a new approach to designing sound textures, fresco is absolutely compatible with touch screens but it also can be controlled with a mouse.
Up to 2 hours of motions can be recorded and reproduced by Fresco Pad, so it really opens a new door on how you can create sonic art.
Upon activating the Fresco Pad, any (or all) of the four main knobs can be assigned to either the X or Y axis. As you can assign almost any control of the library to the main knobs, this means you can control pretty much any aspect of the sound (watch out for CPU-hungry settings!)
To record a motion touch, (or click) and hold the Pad and then play a midi key, a ‘recording’ label will appear, meaning from now on, Fresco Pad will record your motion until either you release the key OR stop touching (or clicking) the pad.
As soon as you finish recording, next key you press will reproduce the motion and the main knobs will move depending on how you assigned them.
Additional controls:
Retrigger: Every time you press a key, the motion will start from the beginning, if it’s off, the motion will continue.
Loop: As the motion ends, it will start again, if it’s off, it will remain on its last position.
Clear: Will clear the memory so that you can record a new motion
Speed: Increases/decreases the speed of the motion.
*Fresco Pad might not be available in all Libraries.
