LUNA AND SESSION HORNS SUSTAIN INDEFINITELY

Bobby Martin

I am having an issue with NI sounds when used as a plug-in in LUNA sustaining notes indefinitely. Bought Sessions Pro Horns and Ireland suite. The Horns play perfect standalone, same with the Ireland stuff. Load into LUNA as a plug-in, the horns sustain indefinitely. BUT, I tried recording a track to see if it records that way(which was really hard to do to ignore the sustained notes) and it DOES NOT record that way. Played back fine, no sustain. Seems like it is just through the audio output(headphones) as you are playing. Seems like the Ireland suite was fine, no, just checked. The drums and anything percussive are ok. But the accordion, flutes, and pipes all sustain.

I am using an M-audio 88 key keyboard. I am pretty new to MIDI so don't really know if perhaps it's a setting in Native Instrument Kontakt 8 or elsewhere. All my other plug-in's from other parties work perfectly in LUNA.

No sustain peddle on the keyboard, I have tried everything I can think of. Re-installed NI Horns, still the same.

Using Windows 10, Intel i9-9900 CPU.

Have been on the Universal Audio forum as well, no word yet.

Thanks for any help, I love the horn section and The Ireland suite and can't wait to record them.

Bobby

Jabba101

This seems to be a problem very specifically between NI instruments and Luna. This only happens with my NI instruments in Luna (all other third-party instruments I tried work perfectly fine in Luna), but my NI instruments have no problem in any other DAW I try (I mainly use Samplitude these days, but I tried them in Reaper and Music Maker with zero problems).

Every NI instrument I tried - Massive, Massive X, Reaktor (including Monark), Kontakt instruments - all sounds that sustain as long as you hold down the keys continue forever. I've tried everything I can think of, but no, cannot fix it. (I also confirm playback of a midi sequence is fine, the problem is specific to playing the instrument live into Luna.)

So all I can come up with is a workaround, which is as follows…
1. Play with another instrument in Luna to get the notes down, then switch to the NI instrument for playback/mixdown.
2. If you must play the NI instrument e.g. maybe the instrument has special features triggered by playing certain notes such as string slides or other sound effects, then all I can think of is that you play the NI instrument in another DAW and then export as a WAV or MIDI file to use as appropriate to your Luna project.

That's the best I can think of, but then again I am but a lowly drummer stumbling around in this world of midi gloriousness, LOL.
(Funnily enough, I registered on the Luna forums yesterday to talk about this very subject - but went to bed before posting anything - I get up and find my Luna forum account banned with the reason "spam"… Oh well, it's a funny old world.)