Does each instrument has a separate volume control for overhead, room, direct mics like some sample libraries have on the market?
Does each instrument has a separate volume control for overhead, room, direct mics like some sample libraries have on the market?
No, the instruments do not have such individual microphone volume control. Instruments of the library are composed of flat stereo samples. For your information, such separate mic volume control is usually redundant as you can change the sonic balance of the drums by means of equalizing. Direct microphone usually captures the main tone of the drum - e.g. 200 Hz for a snare drum. Boosting or cutting this frequency region is equivalent to boosting or cutting the direct microphone level.
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In the "High Hat" sample set I've got I cannot seem to find WAV files for the open high hat. I also cannot seem to vary openness level when playing MIDI drums.
In the "High Hat" sample set I've got I cannot seem to find WAV files for the open high hat. I also cannot seem to vary openness level when playing MIDI drums.
The open high hat samples reside in the folder with the "EDGE" suffix. The openness level is specified in the file name (ranges from fully closed to fully open).
To set the high hat openness level you have to program the MIDI CC #4. Note that in many cases the MIDI loop libraries do not set the MIDI CC #4 explicitly and so your sampler will most probably use the default "half open" value for MIDI CC #4.
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Can you please let me know if I can use these instruments in BFD, Drumagog and some other drum sample module plug-ins?
Can you please let me know if I can use these instruments in BFD, Drumagog and some other drum sample module plug-ins?
BFD, Drumagog and many other drum sample module plug-ins are not supported since they use "closed" proprietary formats, or are not wide-spread. We provide instrument files only in the NKI and SFZ formats as among universal sample library formats they are most wide-spread and sufficiently "open".
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I like the fact your library is offered in the NKI instrument file format, but I find it inconvenient that each instrument resides in a separate NKI file, unlike some libraries that have a single NKI file that contains several instruments.
I like the fact your library is offered in the NKI instrument file format, but I find it inconvenient that each instrument resides in a separate NKI file, unlike some libraries that have a single NKI file that contains several instruments.
A single NKI file is not provided, because as practice says customers usually buy only several instruments out of all available. Beside that, having different stick types sampled, drumheads with and without damping, offering a single NKI file is quite a limiting approach since in a kit, for example, one musician may want a damped snare played with a stick and cymbals played with rutes, while another musician may want only ride cymbal to be played with rutes. Thus, the number of usable kit piece combinations is large.
Also note that Kontakt allows you to save multi-instrument patches. So, you have to build your kit out of several separate NKI files only once. In the case of a possible MIDI note overlap, remapping the samples from one MIDI note to another MIDI note is also quite an easy drag'n'drop operation in Kontakt. It is also possible to change panning/volume of individual kit pieces when you are using a multi-instrument setting.