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[Jay Coover]

Kontakt, the worst NI thing ever? You serious? It’s pretty clearly the best all-around sample player out there IMO. And certainly not the worst thing NI has ever come up with.

It’s kind of their flagship product and supports a huge percentage of the content that comes along with Komplete.

Massive is great, but if I had to choose between the two, Massive would go, easily. I can replace Massive. There’s nothing out there that can do what Kontakt can.

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[Jay Coover]

EDIT: ***contacted by email***

I already have The Classic and Funkmasters. Picked up the other 4.

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[Jay Coover]

That picture confused me as well, for a few minutes. I’d suggest fixing the manual. Or you could blame everyone who reads it for not understanding the less-than-obvious fact that it doesn’t exist yet. Even when it does, yeah, maybe it will be free cuz it’s in the manual. I can assume that, right?

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[Jay Coover]

Usually it is Microsoft that is to blame, and I’ve searched my computer for errors, but can’t find any.

And your expertise in server side applications that you can’t possibly have any knowledge of or see in any way lead you to this conclusion how? And then you checked your computer (a client) for an error that was happening on the server. Got it…forgiven…but you aren’t probably on the right track.

A 500 error can only come from the server.

Either toontrack’s site was down, their web app didn’t like your request and choked on it, or you hit some other site by accident…DNS screw-up or the like. Latter would be odd.

Toontrack should probably check their own web logs and server event logs for this if they care about tracking it down.

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[Jay Coover]

Trouble is I don’t know if you can separate the piano from the other instruments (bass and drums) without a mess on our hands.

If you have an Aebersold track, the drums and bass are in one channel, and the drums and piano are in the other. Trouble is, I’m not sure how Melodyne will handle the drums. If it assigns a pitch to every drum hit, you’ve got a mess to clean up.

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[Jay Coover]

I like Jazz so I’m only going to purchase the Jazz stuff. So to me, cost is not an objection.

Straying from topic here a bit…while I’m not as disappointed with the MIDI parts as some, I will say for the jazz stuff, I expected to hear some more straight up comping, something like you’d hear on an Aebersold CD. Something you could plug into almost any jazz song, given that you’d have some things that spanned between Ballad, Bossa, and Bebop. I don’t feel like that’s really there. The Latin stuff is covered pretty basically, but the uptempo swinging jazz stuff is simply not there. That would have been pretty cool.

Another digression: To pull this off we need to be able to float up and down through inversions, not just octaves. The workaround is to move the MIDI file into your host and grab the top note and move it to the bottom or visa versa with the bottom note…play back…rinse, repeat.

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[Jay Coover]

There’s a fair share of 6/8. You’d need to click, I believe the half time button (x1/2). Not at my DAW at the moment to try it.

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[Jay Coover]

ORIGINAL: horsehead

It’s on the left hand side underneath the scissors tool. The icon shows “Al+/-“. Hovering the mouse over displays “Add/Remove/Correct Chord Notation”. Still don’t know what the point of it is as there’s no explanation in the manual.

Surprisingly, this tool enables you to add, remove, or edit chords.

I think it’s fair to say that the split tool wasn’t primarily meant for adding chords, except of course that when you split a clip in a place where there is no chord, it then creates one at the beginning of the newly-created clip.

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[Jay Coover]

I experienced this bug for a very short time when I first installed.
http://www.toontrack.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=124906

BTW, I was not imagining it either. I have a decent ear and know what I was seeing but not hearing.

Maybe try to reboot your machine and open it all up again. I’m not sure what happened but I have not seen the problem since then.

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[Jay Coover]

Possibility to retain the chord progression is one of the things that are high on our feature request list. However, although it seems like a simple thing to fix on the surface, it is not as straight forward as one might think. If it where, we would have implemented it already 🙂

Knowing a little bit about software, but not as much as you…the only reason it would be more difficult now is because it wasn’t accounted for early on.

The chords are associated to the disconnected MIDI files and no ability to keep them associated to the timeline was accounted for…perhaps even ignored to the point that backtracking and redesign is necessary.

I realize this is a challenge that no one else has undertaken. Certainly when you begin transposing majors to minors and visa versa and chord progressions where certain bass lines or leading tones flow gracefully into one another, only to be jarred by the user entering some unpredicted chord change, then the real challenges beginning.

Thank you for doing this. Keep up the good work.

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[Jay Coover]

Another cool feature would be a way to intelligently humanize imported MIDI files that were programmed or quantized. You know the type. All perfectly quantized with every note velocity equalling 100. Exactly the type of piano parts we have come to hate.

Randomize the note placement slightly, in the manner a human would. Also, perhaps add velocity emphasis in certain places, with options on how to do this.

EDIT: adding this to my OP.

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[Jay Coover]

Ladies, please.

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[Jay Coover]

Feature requests anyone?

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[Jay Coover]

ORIGINAL: Whitten

I just think we need to get out of the headspace that EZkeys is a one stop shop for piano composition.
It’s aptly named EZ, in that it most closely resembles EZdrummer in concept.
With these ‘EZ’ products, you find midi parts that almost fit your needs, you straight away drop them into your DAW, and all the editing and refinement goes on there.
Also, you aren’t limited to one instance of EZkeys.
If you are really worried about losing something you’ve slowly built up in the EZkeys songline, then create another VI track and launch a second instance, then switch between the two.

Yeah, this one is a in tricky space. For instance, you can’t turn a blues riff into a maj7 riff and not have it sound funny.

Simply, you’ve got to get it in the ballpark, drag the MIDI file over and do some editing, basically put.

Those who will be successful with this plug-in will get that. Funny there’s a music theory pdf included.

Good luck catching up with that.

Kudos to toontrack for even attempting something like this. I get it.

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[Jay Coover]

Yeah, get Elton John and Billy Joel in for a session before they croak. Jerry Lee Lewis is still around too, but not for long.

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