KONTAKT MASTER EDITOR MOD
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KONTAKT MASTER EDITOR MOD

I loop through the values 0 through 11, checking a particular pattern of intervals using a mod operation to handle wrapping across octaves. Every twenty notes, 12, 0, or -12 is randomly added to the note offset so that the improvisation slowly moves through the range of the instrument.Д¬hord detection proved to be an interesting problem that wasn't terribly hard to solve. When a note is selected that does not fit this parameter, it is simply not played, which increases the rhythmic interest. I confine the distance between consecutive notes to within a fifth, so that large jumps do not happen. Notes are triggered in an on-listener callback that is dependent on Kontakt's metronome speed, and the user can select both a subdivision and a duration. All note selections and chord detections disregard octaves. For each supported three or four notes chord type I have a hard-coded list of notes that are allowed to play when each chord is held. On top of this scat machine, I wrote an algorithmic improvisation script that detects chords held on the keyboard and triggers consonant notes in an improvisational fashion. This creates the most realistic effect, while the deterministic mode allows the user to create a chorus of 'doos' or 'ahs,' for instance. One mode was deterministic (hard coded by the user) and another was set based on probabilities that a particular syllable would be used.

KONTAKT MASTER EDITOR FULL

I used amplitude envelopes in Kontakt to extract individual phonemes from the words and used scripting to sequence them as full scat words based on user-configurable settings. I used start consonants b, d, z vowels ah, ee, oo, ih and ending consonants m, p, and t. I recorded a friend singing five words containing about a dozen syllables across a three octave range. I also wrote an integrated Kontakt instrument designed to be a scat singing engine. You can download the script, Kontakt instrument, and audio samples here. It was a fun exercise, trying to conform to the lack of features in the language. I wrote out all of the 2D array indexing manually based on 2D logic.

One particular challenge of this is the lack of functions or data structures in the scripting language aside from 1D arrays. This is very useful in seeing the live cells in the grid as they play their notes. In Kontakt's mapping editor, you can see red marks corresponding to notes and velocity values. I had some fun with it and wrote some cellular automata and basic algorithmic improvisation into my projects. Kontakt is a MIDI sampling engine that, at its most basic level, maps a set of audio samples to MIDI events like key presses. While taking Music 346 (Sampling Synthesis) I wrote a variety of Kontakt Scripts.

Kontakt master editor