Native Instruments Mixer Usage

[brandondrury]

I guess I should sit down and put some serious time into the Native Instruments Komplete manuals, but maybe I can save an hours by posting here first.

When I load up Kontakt 2, for example, Kontakt ends up loading about 50 outputs. (It may be 20, but it seams like 50).

I may only use 5-10 outputs, but I still have to deal with all 50 outputs. This is in Cubase SX3.

This isn't an enormous issue, but it's a real pain when I want to automate the level of a violin or something and have to scroll through 50 channels of nothing. On top of that, if I use Battery, I've doubled the problem.

Does anyone know where the setting is to reduce the number of mixer channels used by Kontakt 2 or any other Native Instruments Virtual Instrument?

Brandon

[richiebee]

I've been wondering this too. Hey if you're with Cubase today (I'm with Kontakt but dongleless so I can't open cubase), go into Kontakt, hit the output button. Select your surround channels and delete. Select your output 2 channels and delete. Now hit the save as default button.

Close Kontakt (and probably cubase), re-open and see if you now have reduced channels showing up in the mixer in cubase.

I'm not sure what will happen.

R.

[brandondrury]

I tried your idea. It didn't seam to make any difference.

The problem is I have 6 different channels for "surround" outputs from Kontakt2. This is wonderful, but I'm not doing any surround mixing. There were 2 default surround outputs in the Kontakt 2 options. So it appears that there is no direct correlation between how you setup the outputs in Kontakt 2 and the Cubase SX3 mixer.

I'll do some searching on this. This is my biggest problem I have with my rig at the moment (besides the 10 terrabytes of samples I can't afford).

Brandon