Where are keyswitches for orchestral instruments in Kontakt Factory Library documented?

b_hagerty

Many orchestral instruments in Kontakt Factory Library seem to contain keyswitches of some kind that I can't figure out. For example, the Bassoon has two sets of keyswitches based on the visual keyboard display: one, in blue, from C-1 to F-1, and a second, in red, from C0 to F0. (See screenshot.)

The red keyswitches are clear from the interface: they are articulations (sustain, fortepiano, etc.)

But the blue keyswitches, in the C-1 to F-1 range, don't have anything I can see that corresponds to the interface. No tooltip shows up when I hover or click on them. Are these documented somewhere, or am I missing something in the interface that would explain what they are supposed to do? Many instruments have similar seemingly undocumented keyswitches.

b_hagerty

Thanks! Looks like there is a PDF of the Factory Library documentation at Native Instruments:

https://www.native-instruments.com/fileadmin/ni_media/downloads/manuals/Kontakt_Factory_Library_Manual_English.pdf

Gee_Flat

Turn off 'Dynamic KS' and they disappear. They're used for on the fly changes to the sound.

The PDF for the KFL is on my old laptop but hard to find elsewhere...

https://www.scribd.com/document/360046823/Kontakt-Factory-Library-Documentation-English-pdf#

b_hagerty

Thanks! Looks like there is a PDF of the Factory Library documentation at Native Instruments:

https://www.native-instruments.com/fileadmin/ni_media/downloads/manuals/Kontakt_Factory_Library_Manual_English.pdf

Gee_Flat

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/47198#Comment_47198

Good find...

Kontakt is so overwhelmingly complex that its easy to forget as much as you learn or read about, if you don't apply it. Looking in the Kontakt manual, it says birefly that 'Blue Switches' are designed to trigger specific 'Zones', opposed to groups.