Exporting MIDI to Kontakt 5?

Hi, lautier.
I use kontakt, but Ron says you need a host program (DAW) since kontakt is a sampler, in which you can load libraries and effects, etc.

In my case I use FL (you have lots of daw with different prices and some free).

The first step is to make the score, for example in Musescore, you can add the maximum information, dynamics, volume, tempos etc, although this is modified in the daw with work.

Once finished it is exported in midi (in Musescore) and opening the daw is imported as midi.
Each instrument is assigned to a channel (this can be modified, created, deleted, etc.)

From here it is about assigning sounds to those midi channels, it can be done with kontakt or with any vsti, in the free field there are interesting things although most are paid.

As you comment, you think to use the bookstores that come with kontakt, very well, at first it seems to me successful until you get all the operation, then you can go acquiring things from other houses (they are quite expensive).

Well, you have the channels with your instruments, the next step depends on the daw, there are differences, in my case I charge a channel with kontakt (or several kontakt, depending on the number of instruments).

I open kontakt from the daw (.dll) and load the libraries in kontakt, for example 1 guitar and a cello.

In the container of the DAW for kontakt (wrapper) I have to place a number (INPUT PORT - different for each instance) and in the instrument another channel number, for each instrument.
Once configured kontakt I go to the MIDIS channels that I have imported (guitar and cello), I have assigned the kontakt wrapper the number 1 (each instance a different number), the guitar I assigned the channel 1 and the cello the 2 , so in the midi channel of the guitar you have to place in PORT the number 1 (kontakt instance) and in channel 1 for the guitar, 2 for the cello.

Another thing that has to be done in kontakt and that I forgot is to configure the outputs so that the sound goes independent to the mixer and then we can manipulate it, reverb, eq, compressor, etc.)
This is easy, you have to open outputs, one for each instrument and assign them in the PROCESSING tab (in FL) 1, 2, 3, etc.

With this we get to have the separate instruments in the MIXER.

This whole subject is easy but not intuitive, so if you have questions ask or watch videos in YTB about the daw and kontakt.

Another topic that you comment is that at the moment you do not think to introduce with keyboard the notes, I do it this way, in the daw we have a piano roll to manipulate everything, velocity, volume, effects, sizes, notes, etc.
Everything by hand and takes a lot of work, it is difficult to achieve the realism of playing live.
Sometimes you can find works touched in midi by people who are more realistic, you can use those midis, they are humanized.

This would give for hours because you have to know many things, for example mix and use all the tools of the daw, eq, pan, reverb, compressor, limiter, etc.
But to give you an idea these are the things you must know to achieve the purpose you mention.

I'll make a simple outline of the steps (in FL), greetings.

MUSESCORE export midi

FL import midi

CHANNELS FL
channel 1 guitar PORT = 1 channel = 1 (PORT 1 is the instance of kontakt, PORT 2 other kontakt..)
channel 2 cello PORT = 1 channel = 2
channel 3 ....... PORT = 1 channel = 3 etc
kontakt ( another channel)

IN KONTAKT
create outputs 1, 2, 3, etc
instrument guitar Port A (from host) = 1 output = 1
instrument cello Port A (from host) = 2 output = 2, etc.......

WRAPPER FL
Input port = 1 (instance)
Processing 1. Kt. st. 1 / Kt. st. 1 R = 1
2. Kt. aux 1 / Kt. aux 1 R = 2 etc......

with this, each instrument is assigned in the mixer separately to manipulate, all this is joined in the master that is the final sound that we export to different formats, wav, mp3, flac, etc.
Before that in the mixer we have configured each instrument to our liking to make a whole, for it is given panoramic, volume, eq, reverb to place the sounds in the stereo space, etc.

With some images it is better understood and this way it can be valid for other people who want to start mixing.

I have exported the midi from Musescore and import it into Fl,
menu File - Import - Midi file

I have done a short midi with violin and cello to try.
I created two channels, one for each instrument, if there were eight instruments I would create eight, correlatives.

On another channel I add kontakt (we have to have it in a VST folder and tell FL the route, only the first time)
in the following way:
menu Channels - Add one - kontakt 5 (if it does not appear in the list you have to scan as follows:
menu Channels - Add one - More - Refresh - fast scan; it appears in red, click on kontakt 5 and it will be available forever.

Now we open kontakt, we load the violin and the cello, it creates an output by default, but we need another one for the cello.
In the outputs tab we can create the ones that we need, in this case another one, the 2.

To the violin we assign the output 1 and the cello the 2 that we have created

We have to change the ports, the violin is assigned the 1, we assign the cello to the 2

In the container of kontakt (wrapper) we must assign a port (instance of kontakt) in input port, I have assigned a 1, if we load another kontakt we can place the 2 and .......

In the Processing tab, we place the outputs of the two instruments 1 and 2.

We have already configured kontakt, now we must relate the channels that we have imported with the kontakt instruments so that they take control.
I have changed the default names for those of the instrument, clicking on the channel we open the channel configuration window, in this case we have selected the cello and in PORT we place 1 (instance of kontakt) and in channel the number that we have given to the instrument within kontakt, in this case 2, the violin is 1, the rest is not played, they are inherited midi data.

If we have taken the correct steps, in the mixer the first channel will be the violin and the second the cello, independent, the master is the main channel where all the other independent channels are mixed.

It is time to open the piano roll from the midi channel, here we see the notes of the violin, the cello notes of the other channel as ghost (reference) and below we have the velocity bars to handle the dynamics, one by one or by selections.

To get an idea, I have loaded an eq and a reverb into the violin channel of the mixer, now that the kontakt sounds of the libraries are the ones in control, it is time to mix and as a last step, export to wav, mp3 etc, using menu File - Export

Beefy is what my machine isn't :)

Plugins all take a lot of your CPU availability and memory.
So if you have a really old machine like mine that has 4G of Ram you run into limits all the time... Yes one off the shelf but not an entry level machine,

Mac OS X 10.11, macOS 10.12 or 10.13 (latest update), i5
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4 GB RAM (6 GB recommended for large KONTAKT Instruments)

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