[RWP] What's the current state of n I kontact accessibility with hsc and ahk?

Thu May 2 13:10:53 EDT 2013

I took Gianluca's AHK scripts for a quick spin earlier with Kontakt 5
on my usual Reaper x64, Win7, NVDA. Overall, really useful. I was able
to load up a few instruments, point one of them at the right directory
to find its samples and resave it. There are a few other commands
available that I haven't explored yet, just did what I needed to do
earlier on and cracked on with the job at hand as I was pressed for
time. Sometimes, it took a couple of attempts to get the AHK
keystrokes to find their intended target, but it wasn't a huge
frustration. It's also worth noting that on my system, if I switched
out of the fx window midway through a workflow that I was relying on
the scripts for, I had to do some mousing around to get focus back. I
guess it's fair to say that there's still a bit of jiggery-pokery
involved, but whatever, it's progress IMO.

I haven't compared these side by side to the free HSC sets thanks to
my JAWS installation being put through the ringer. I'll give it a go
next time I need to use Kontakt assuming FS have figured out a
solution by then, this is the weirdest case of JAWS getting its
knickers in a knot that I've ever seen. Would be good to hear from
anyone who's already tried the HSC approach in the meantime.

Anyway, for any non JAWS users who were teetering on the edge of
donating and waiting for someone else to take the leap, I leaped and
lived to tell the tale.

Scott

On 5/2/13, Indigo <33indigo at charter.net> wrote:
> Scott, please let us know how well Gienluca's AHK scripts for Kontakt
> work for you.
> I guess I don't expect to ever get full access to a Native Instruments
> program, but it's nice to get a handle onto the library browser anyway.
> Thanks,
> Indigo
> .
>
>
> On 5/1/2013 4:47 AM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
>> There are AHK scripts for Kontakt. Not 100% sure how the functionality
>> compares to Steve's HSC efforts, but thought it would be worth
>> confirming for everyone that they do exist as donationware. If you
>> want to find out more or make a donation to acquire them, the chap you
>> need to be talking with is called Gianluca. You can write to him using
>> gianluca.apollaro88 at gmail.com
>>
>> I'm gonna be trying these out when cash is flowing a little more
>> freely, hopefully in a few days time.
>>
>> Hth someone
>>
>> Scott
>>
>>
>> On 5/1/13, Patrick Perdue <patrick at pdaudio.net> wrote:
>>> Same here. NVDA with Reaper is fast and awesome. I'm definitely not
>>> missing
>>> the sluggish Jaws keyboard intercept slowing things down with fast
>>> starts/stops when editing big projects and the like.
>>>
>>> On Apr 30, 2013, at 5:52 PM, "Alex H." <linuxx64.bashsh at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Too bad this is all for JAWS. I'm an NVDA user....
>>>>
>>>> On 4/30/13, Steve Spamer <steve at vipaudioaccess.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Trahern, no you can't make samples from wave files. It's just
>>>>> giving
>>>>> you
>>>>> the ability to manage any instruments and libraries you may have.
>>>>> Using
>>>>> it
>>>>> to make sample instruments is way off, unless you have quite a few
>>>>> $$$'s
>>>>> to
>>>>> donate?  Cheers Steve.
>>>>> Visit:
>>>>> www.vipaudioaccess.com
>>>>> for audio access solutions, articles, demos, to showcase your music
>>>>> and
>>>>> to
>>>>> basically get involved!
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: RWP [mailto:rwp-bounces at reaaccess.com] On Behalf Of trahern
>>>>> culver
>>>>> Sent: 30 April 2013 11:24
>>>>> To: Reapers Without Peepers
>>>>> Subject: Re: [RWP] What's the current state of n I kontact
>>>>> accessibility
>>>>> with hsc and ahk?
>>>>>
>>>>> Cool can you make samples from wav files? Kind regards trahern
>>>>>
>>>>> On 30/04/2013, at 8:54 AM, Calvin Botha <djdarkness.botha at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> You can access kontakt's patch load dialogue and reset multi dialogue
>>>>>> as well as browsing for samples if kontakt doesn't find them in a
>>>>>> patch. Check the links to his site I provided. All is explained
>>>>>> their.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 4/30/13, trahern culver <sound.warrior20 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> So how much access to kontact do steavs scrips give the user? Kind
>>>>> regards
>>>>>>> trahern
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 30/04/2013, at 6:48 AM, Calvin Botha <djdarkness.botha at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hay trahern. TO understand the current state of Kontakt
>>>>>>>> accessibility,
>>>>>>>> you must realise that every library for kontakt has a different
>>>>>>>> interface with kontakt acting as a frontend for the library. It's
>>>>>>>> not
>>>>>>>> static like spectrosonics products or like most of the vsts found
>>>>>>>> in
>>>>>>>> Sonar or Reaper. As you know kontakt is bitmapped, with tons of
>>>>>>>> interface elements that change as one interacts with them.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So far Steve from VIP Audio access has done some amazing work with
>>>>>>>> regards to Kontakt accessibility. You can check out his latest hsc
>>>>>>>> set
>>>>>>>> for kontakt and reaper here:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.vipaudioaccess.com/free-hsc-set-kontakt-basic-operation/#comment-
>>>>> 444
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Steve has also taken on the mamith task of making some libraries
>>>>>>>> for
>>>>>>>> kontakt accessible. The first 2 he has just finished are from
>>>>>>>> orange
>>>>>>>> tree samples. Absilutely amazing sounding guitar libraries. Check
>>>>>>>> it
>>>>>>>> out from the link below:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://www.vipaudioaccess.com/pricing-and-ordering/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Their are several demmos of these libraries up so far. I myself am
>>>>>>>> seriously keen on purchasing these.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hope this helps.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 4/30/13, trahern culver <sound.warrior20 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Hey all what's the current state of native instruments kontact
>>>>>>>>> accessabilitie with hsc and ahk? Is the latest version fully
>>>>> accessable?
>>>>>>>>> Your help with this question would be most welcome kind regards
>>>>>>>>> trahern
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>>>>>>>> --
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>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>>
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