How do I get set_key_color to apply on instrument load?

drobertbaker

The simplest script in Kontakt 6:

on init
set_key_color(1, $KEY_COLOR_RED)
end on

works great when applied, however when I load the instrument, the keys come up all white.

All the instruments I look at have the keyswitches colored on instrument load.

What's the secret I'm missing?

I copied all the code from another instrument's script that works just fine straight into mine.
Same result, nothing.
Some setting on the instrument I created?

I copied another instrument made by somebody else with instrument keys in blue and keyswitches in red over my new instrument.

OK. The new copied one worked fine.

Then I overwrote its scriptcode with my simple

on init
set_key_color(1, $KEY_COLOR_RED)
end on

It no longer showed any red keyswitches (mine or the originals)on instrument load.

Then I copied the imported script back to where it originally was, so this imported instrument was back to how I found it.

It showed NO red keyswitches.
HOWEVER, the now invisible original keyswitches worked JUST FINE!

??????????

theodorech

First, double-check that you’re not using the key-lighting factory script. Also, the note you’re changing the color of is 1 (C#-2). Not sure if that’s what you intended. The general approach should be: a) put all the keyswitch MIDI note numbers into an array, b) loop through that array and colorize, c) wrap the loop in a function and call it whenever needed, plus include it in the persistence_changed callback.

on init
declare $i

declare const $NUM_KEYSWITCHES := 4

declare %keyswitches_notes[$NUM_KEYSWITCHES] := (36, 38, 40, 41)
end on

function colorize

$i := 0

while ($i<$NUM_KEYSWITCHES)

set_key_color(%keyswitches_notes[$i],$KEY_COLOR_RED)

inc($i)

end while

end function

on persistence_changed

call colorize

end on