Kontakt Player Track Question

[WiFiSunset]

In Kontakt Player I'm trying to set track to shakuhachi, and track 2 to an EP Piano. But when I play the midi in track 2, it plays as a Shakuhachi instead. Forgive me if this is an obvious answer, but how do I fix this so that Shakuhachi only plays in Track 1?

I'm adding a screenshot of the issue as well.

[Kat]

The problem is that the Shakuhachi is set to channel A1 while the piano is set to A2, and the midi data in the piano roll only plays to A1 by default. You have to change that on your own. In the upper left corner of the piano roll there's a colored box, just below the dropdown menu. Click on it and this will happen:

Those numbers correspond to the midi channel number. It's pretty straightforward. Notes written in color 1 will be played by instruments set to [A/B/C/Etc] 1. The color isn't really important. It's just there to differentiate the notes in the piano roll. Write out your notes in the appropriate "color"(or select existing notes, open the above menu and pick the appropriate channel to change them) and they'll be played by instruments on that track with the correct midi channel(or Omni). You can also configure your midi keyboard/devices (if you have any) to play to certain channels to make this easier to do. By default they'll generally send input to channel A1.

[timaeus222]

Did you configure your MIDI Outs to play in channel 1 or 2, and then assign a port number to Kontakt? Your MIDI Ports should be set to an actual number and your MIDI Outs should match that port number. Otherwise, try changing the color of your MIDI Notes. But it may be a different way of doing it.

[WiFiSunset]

4 hours ago, Kat said:

The problem is that the Shakuhachi is set to channel A1 while the piano is set to A2, and the midi data in the piano roll only plays to A1 by default. You have to change that on your own. In the upper left corner of the piano roll there's a colored box, just below the dropdown menu. Click on it and this will happen:

Those numbers correspond to the midi channel number. It's pretty straightforward. Notes written in color 1 will be played by instruments set to [A/B/C/Etc] 1. The color isn't really important. It's just there to differentiate the notes in the piano roll. Write out your notes in the appropriate "color"(or select existing notes, open the above menu and pick the appropriate channel to change them) and they'll be played by instruments on that track with the correct midi channel(or Omni). You can also configure your midi keyboard/devices (if you have any) to play to certain channels to make this easier to do. By default they'll generally send input to channel A1.

That was the issue, thanks :)! After setting each kontakt to A1 in each individual channel, they played he instruments I set them too.

 

Thanks as well Timaeus! I'm just starting to mess with Kontact and Reaktor as well lol.