Can I move the playback cursor in the Kontakt wave editor?

carburetor

Hello, I am thinking about buying Kontakt but I want to understand something about how it works first. Is it possible to move the playback cursor/play position in the Kontakt wave editor, similar to how you can do so in any DAW or program that plays audio? My friend has Kontakt and I could not figure out how to do it.

Here's why I want to do this: I am working in another sampler with making rather long loops (around 12 seconds), and every time I need to check my loop start and end positions, I have to listen from the beginning of the sample, which wastes a lot of time. I want to move the playback position to just before the end of the loop so I can hear just the loop transition and assess its quality.

Blindeddie

move the sample "Start" to a position right before the loop end.

Hope that's what you are looking for!! (of course, don't forget to set it back after editing 🙄)

EvilDragon

You can load Change Velocity script and set it to Fixed mode, then it will modify your input velocity to a single velocity value that you set.

Blindeddie

move the sample "Start" to a position right before the loop end.

Hope that's what you are looking for!! (of course, don't forget to set it back after editing 🙄)

carburetor

Thanks for your reply; that's a good workaround. I tried it, and it works when I trigger the sample from the keyboard. Kontakt ignores the loop when I use the play button in the wave editor, and if I turn on the loop button next to play button, it always plays from the beginning of the loop.

This means that I have to trigger the correct velocity layer with a keyboard every time I want to check my sample loop points. This is not ideal. Is there a better way?

Blindeddie

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/20661#Comment_20661

Not that I am aware of!!! Sorry!!!

carburetor

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/20664#Comment_20664

No worries! Thank you for your help.

EvilDragon

You can load Change Velocity script and set it to Fixed mode, then it will modify your input velocity to a single velocity value that you set.

carburetor

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/20725#Comment_20725

Thanks! That's much quicker than setting a fixed velocity from my keyboard. I have a workable solution now.

After looking into it, I think I might end up editing my samples and setting loop points in something like WaveLab. Is that what most people do?

Blindeddie

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/20725#Comment_20725

I learn something new every day... Thanks @EvilDragon

EvilDragon

Yeah I would absolutely recommend setting loops outside of Kontakt.