Originally posted by darvlay
"It's the s__t"
Translation:
It's great. It's magnificent. It's the best.
NOT:
It's too complicated. It's terrible.
I love how you tell me it's too complicated yet you're the one who didn't know what a track was and couldn't even figure out how to get the software to make sound. Yeesh! 😵
What makes you think I didn't know what a track was? BTW, I was able to connect with NI support on the phone and the problem getting audio from Kontakt was a button that says 'always load samples in purge mode' which is nuts, don't understand what anyone would want to use that 'feature' for. Anyway, unclicking that and reloading the sample let the audio out. I am 99% there, gotten rid of audio artifacts for the most part, by going to 4 gigs of ram, full load for XP. The reason I was confused about the audio V keyboard midi recording was basically I never used that before for recording, I had always done audio recording where a track is just the place where audio is layed down.
It's a bit more complicated with midi because you have two things going on. So I have recorded a piano piece in Midi and see what to do now. When I get finished with a midi track, I export the audio out to a wave file and then back into a pure audio track for finishing or mixing with other audio, that way I separate the midi track from the audio mix.
I thought you were panning Sonar, that's why I said it's too complicated, not for me, but for others who just started using it. I saw how protools LE or M audio was simpler to use but also has less features but for immediate recording for a newbie I can see it being easier to work with, especially V the earlier versions of Sonar.
One last note: The NI support guy told me XP does not recognize more than 2 gigs of ram. Have you ever heard of that? He said if you looked in 'system' from the control panel you would only see 2 gigs listed but in that regard he was wrong, I saw the ram listed at 3.7 odd gigs, which seems to me to say XP does recognize more than 2 gigs. I was under the impression XP 32 bit maxes out at 4 gigs because 32 bits of binary cannot make a number greater than 4 billion. To be able to use more than 4 gigs you need to go to a 64 bit OS, which can support terabytes of ram, more than that but I think it will be awhile before we see terabyte ram systems, eh!
The support dude also said XP 64 is not tested by NI, the only 64 bit OS supported was Vista and Windows 7 and I guess whatever the 64 bit version is in Apple.
He also said the DFD feature that the Kontakt manual talks about, where you can set the amount of ram allocated to samples is no longer valid in the latest upgrade, V 3.5.
Did you upgrade to 3.5 yet? He said in that version the DFD feature is no longer manually adjustable, being fully automated, Kontakt decides what ram to allocate now.