As part of a recent remote support session about setting up Native Instrument’s Komplete package with Ableton Live during a booking on Fiverr, I was asked the following question: Why do I have to press so hard on my Komplete Kontrol S88 MK3 keyboard to… Read More »Controlling Keyboard Sensitivity of Komplete Kontrol S88 MK3 Keyboard
This week, I re-connected with a client who I had recently helped move his Kontakt and Spitfire sample libraries to a new SSD. My client explained that the ‘Repair’ warning kept appearing in Native Access. This told us that Native Access was losing the connection… Read More »Kontakt Libraries Showing ‘Repair’ in Native Access – Solved
Hi Paul. I have been recommended Native Instrument’s Mint guitar software, but I can’t figure it out in Pro Tools. Can you help me please? PW I connected remotely with PW to give a short lesson on how to use Mint in Pro Tools. This… Read More »Delivering a Lesson on Using Kontakt’s Guitar Instruments
This week, I took my 4th job via the website Fiverr. I was contacted by Luke who needed some help setting up Guitar Rig and Cubase. Luke and I used Fiverr messaging to confirm his requirements and arrange a time for the hour’s lesson. At… Read More »Remote Lesson on Using Guitar Rig in Cubase
Last week, I connected with a client to help work out why he was experiencing problems with slow loading Kontakt instruments. During that session, I diagnosed that the slow transfer rates of certain SSD drives in his system were the cause of the issue. I… Read More »Moving Sample Libraries to Improve Logic Pro Loading Speeds
Last week, I remotely connected with a client who I have been working with for a number of years. He needed my help as he was experiencing glitches in his audio whilst running Kontakt instruments in Cakewalk by Bandlab. (This software is also branded as… Read More »Audio Glitches When Using Kontakt in Cakewalk by Bandlab- Solved
As part of a recent remote support call I helped a client by diagnosing why certain Kontakt instruments were very slow to load on his system. He was running the latest version of Logic Pro on an M1 Macbook Pro. Some of his Kontakt instruments… Read More »Diagnosing Slow Loading Problems in Logic Pro
Hi Paul. I can’t see any of my instruments in Komplete Kontrol in Logic Pro. Can we connect for you to sort that out for me? – Sam I received the above message from Sam and we arranged a time to connect for later that… Read More »Komplete Kontrol Missing Presets in Logic Pro
Waves plug-ins are causing similar slow loading problems in both Cubase and ProTools. In recent years, Waves have started using a complicated system of licences/update plans to force their customers to buy updates to keep their products compatible with the latest DAWs. Users start to notice problems when they try to load old plug-ins within new DAW software or new plug-ins within older DAW software.
This week I was booked for two different remote support requests involving different DAWs. One client was running Pro Tools and the other Cubase. Both problems had the same underlying cause. The Problem As Pro Tools loads a session template, the loading bar moves across… Read More »Pro Tools freezing when loading a project on Windows – Solved