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It does work. You can use the method I described below to get the first instrument hooked up to a midi cc automation. Then for all the other instruments, just click on the midi-out channel settings box, right-click the first knob you can assign, override generic link and type in whatever cc# you want to work with, then right-click again to automate it.

Two things: 1. LoZ Skyward Sword - beating that flying whale thing called Levias, the one with the eyes underneath it. I hated the flying bird mode of travel in that game, and trying to kill those constantly moving eyes while trying to fly and not crash into the darned thing all the while was excruciating. Once I beat that, I sat down, took a break, vowed to only do that one time, and continued the game. 2. LoZ Twilight Princess - completing all 50 levels of the Cave of Ordeals. Ok, yeah I'm proud of that accomplishment! But once was enough.

Just so you guys know, Timaeus is lightning fast. And I think you'll be quite pleasantly surprised!

Awesome comment!

I love books. I have a huge library of them. Any time I'm into a new topic, I buy a book on it right away. No matter what the topic is. Sometimes ten books. So, what I do is I start reading the book, and start getting inspired and motivated and learning a few things, and about halfway through I put the book down and just start doing. Then I use the book as reference only, but often I don't even need to do that. But the book gives me courage and gets me started. I guess the books are like training wheels for me. Maybe Meteo feels similarly! I wish you luck Meteo, your music is already so great, can't wait to hear your new stuff.

I have a small group of friends I share my wips with. I have one who is really great at music theory and can hear when I've violated musical rules. I have another who is great at arrangement and sound design. I have yet another who is a mixing genius. I typically send my wips to those three people and get the most amazing and diverse feedback from them. I trust them. Some wips I will throw into the wip forum here, once I'm detached enough from the song (after not working on it for a few days) to get more random and unexpected feedback... but typically I've bounced it off my Fab Three prior to that time. My stuff would never approach "shiny and perfect" without this feedback process. It's amazing the big stuff I miss by being too close to the mix. This feedback is essential for me to move forward. As for copyright stuff and stealing, gosh I can't help you there...

The Midi Files by Rob Young I have this book and it's completely over my head at this point.... but it sounds like this is just the book you're looking for. Nothing about orchestration and all about working with the samples.

I recently encountered this problem too. You can handle it two ways. You can make your first instrument play on your first midi out, and that is easy to link to any midi cc # you want of course. But if you want to link the first instrument directly from Kontakt, go into Kontakt and click the dropdown menu in the wrapper (little down arrow in upper left corner), and select "browse parameters," then all the parameters will appear in the browser to the left. Start scrolling.... the cc's are waaaaaay at the bottom but they are all there. Find the one you want, and right-click to create your automation clip. PITA but it works. Now, I don't know how you would link all the instruments directly from Kontakt, not sure if that can even be done, but you can easily link the rest of them via their midi out channels as you described.

YAAAAAY so glad to hear this. Keeping my fingers crossed for a total successful reinstall. I never thought you "bricked" your software, I knew it would get fixed somehow. I'm glad if anything I said helped or at least supported you! And I'm sure CrapCleaner is a wonderful product... hhhhmmm don't have it myself so can't really say (computer-guru friend thinks it is simply Crap)... but yeah I'd be really careful with things like that going forward. Good luck, keep us posted. Looking forward to reading "yay it all fucking totally works now" haha!

I'd be delighted of course! Check out what I emailed you today, good stuff in there.

Oh gosh Wes... I didn't realize how cool your interpretation of this was until I just refreshed myself on the source... WOW that's a very cool adaptation of that melody!!! And I do love the beat. And the gating. You should definitely keep going on this. It does need some changeups now. You could change chord structure and add the next part of the source and some original stuff, slow it down, speed it back up, then back to this part. Really great so far!

Meteo, did you get this fixed yet? Did you have to reformat, or what? I never heard of CCleaner before this thread, but suddenly I'm hearing about it all over the place. In the past three days I've met two people who had computer problems and they had this on their machines! Eegads.

Maybe one of these two videos, made by a good friend of mine, may help: drum output routing drum midi mapping edit: the first video may be the help you're looking for, the second one is just cool to know

If only there was a way to just pluck out that .dll from your discs and not have to reinstall everything... but I don't know enough about that to say. My friend is offline, I'll ask him one final time when he logs back in.

So sorry you're still struggling M... glad to see you posted in Looptalk... I just pinged my friend again to see if he has any other advice, if he does he'll post it there. Hang in there, it *will* get solved somehow. edit: this may be totally unrelated, but do you ever run something like Malwarebytes on your machine? Just in case there is some weird virus in there now? (it's free and wonderful)

Check your PMs.

Meteo, did you get it fixed?

I hope it is just as simple as fixing the registries! Please let me know if that works.

Well you can install 10 and just try out PLAY in there. You don't have to do anything else with it if you don't want to, just see if the PLAY problem is related to FL Studio. If PLAY works in 10, then we can focus on getting you a new install of 9. And when you're feeling brave, you can muddle around in 10 and see if you like it. edit: My friend finally replied. He said NEVER run CCleaner, it deletes things not actively used by Windows and deletes registry keys. Sounds like a bad news program!

Don't be silly. If I can actually help you, that's my reward. I hate to see you not use 10 though, it's really not so different from 9 and you can activate those block thingies... although the playlist is so superior but I totally get what you're saying and respect your feelings. Let me know what happens with 10 and PLAY and we'll proceed from there.

Neblix is right, you can enable those pattern blocks in 10 if you want. I still think you should download 10, just to see if it will handle PLAY correctly. 10 will install to a totally separate location than 9 and won't mess it up. If 10 works, and you still want 9, you can either find the download .exe somewhere online or I can give you my 9 files to install and you can re-register it to you, I dunno it's worth a try.

Why don't you install FL10 anyway? It won't overwrite 9. Just install/authorize 10 and see if PLAY works in it. At least you'll know! Curious... why are you resisting 10?

Holy crap... well it's gotta be either PLAY or FL... if you uninstalled/reinstalled PLAY, I would do the same with FL. Maybe uninstall both, reinstall both. Also what about registries? I know nothing about those except they get hosed up sometimes... still waiting for my friend. Trying! (I know how frustrating this is... maybe you'll help me sometime through a similar problem!)

You could try reinstalling the demo of FL and see if that helps. I've asked my friend, if anyone can help it's him, I'll let you know what he says asap.

From my little bit of research, it looks like PLAY could now be pointing to an older version of qtcore4.dll. It seems many people have been able to get it working again by reinstalling whatever program they are getting that error on. What about at least running an update on the PLAY plugin? That might get the right file back. Here's hoping. edit: what about just doing a system restore? edit #2: I just fired off the question to my computer-guru friend.