Sometimes there are two to three octaves between the keyswitches and the keys for the instrument. I am only asking about NI products nothing else.
it’s because the range of the clarinet is on high octaves. Other instruments have also lower octaves and that’s why they put the keyswitches there.
As I told you, they are pre assigned and can’t be moved
Reviving an older thread here but I came upon this through a google search on this very topic. IMO it's just lazy programming, a lot of instruments have a small octave range so it's easy enough to program the key switches (KS) (starting on C which makes sense) 1 or 2 octaves below the lowest note depending on the number of KS and the lowest note of the instrument. That way a lot of the instruments and KS would easily fit a 61 key keyboard and even a 49 key keyboard at times.
I only just starting looking into this subject but found that not all KS are locked. I changed the KS on the flute of woodwind solo and it now fits my s49. Once you've changed the KS you will need to save it as a preset so you can load it up in future projects. You can't overwrite the original NI programming so you will need to load up the saved preset otherwise it just loads the original programming. Hope this helps some of you.
You can easily change the location of a keyswitch with a simple multiscript. This transposes any note you play below the clarinet range, i.e. C below middle C (#48 - end of line 2) down 2 octaves (24 semitones, end of line 3). It'll affect all instruments in the multi, but you can put in another condition specifying the channel.
on midi_in if ((($MIDI_COMMAND = $MIDI_COMMAND_NOTE_ON) or ($MIDI_COMMAND = $MIDI_COMMAND_NOTE_OFF)) and ($MIDI_BYTE_1 < 48)) set_event_par($EVENT_ID, $EVENT_PAR_MIDI_BYTE_1, $MIDI_BYTE_1 - 24) end if end on
Paste into multiscript slot (KSP button, top R of Kontakt window) and click Apply.
I saw that…..
I found the ImpactSoundworks plug ins to be far superior to those from NI unless the user is just using the NI guitars for patterns. I use the NI guitars for patterns, Amplitube for amps and pedals and to drop onto other instruments, and Shreddage Stratus for solo work as you can create far more convincing sounds with Stratus and it is nks..I have a s61 mk1 keyboard and get by with the keyswitches by octave shifting the keyboard. Not an ideal situation. No idea why there would be dead space keys, but perhaps there is a reason.
The UJAM Silk is good for acoustic guitar patterns and it is only 10 bucks now at PlugInBoutique. At some point I think this situation will improve and there will be lots more options/competition when Midi2 kicks in
NI doesnt even include a keyboard view showing keyswitches with their Komplete Kontrol software and thats just wrong. I can see why they changed the branding from KompleteKontrol to just Kontrol and eliminated the Komplete part ::) Shouldnt have to load Kontakt inside of KK just to get a keyboard view. Nor do they update/upgrade the guitar VST's and most other Instruments and that's just wrong too.
