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Tutorials for music software

Quick Sample Exchange in Kontakt

The buttons to the right of the sample name (highlighted in orange) in the Mapping Editor allows you to switch a zone’s sample for the next sample in the folder that it is located in.

Pretty good for exchanging drum sounds, etc.

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How to create a mono channel in Kontakt 2/3

I got an email today that asked how to do this so here’s a quick tutorial that I wrote.
1. Open the output section in Kontakt by clicking the output button on the top. In Kontakt 3 it’s the button with 3 sliders on it. 
2. On the ouput section on the bottom click “add channel” to [...]

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Parallel Compression

Today we are going to discuss parallel compression (New York compression). I’m a pretty big fan of this technique. The main reason I’m a drummer and I like to beef up the drums with it. 
What is parallel compression? The simplest way to describe it is, mixing a compressed signal with it’s dry source to create [...]

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