The Sound Board

Guy Rowland wrote: ↑Aug 29, 2023 4:18 am I think what he's doing in that video (he doesn't say or I missed it) is loading up every main instrument and assigning to the same midi channel (except for basses which he forgot). He'd also have to have unified the keyswitches, which is pretty simple using the switcher's save / load, and I think switched legato off and sordino on, with his own reverb / spatialisation.

If that's the case, it's still a bodge. This will use auto-divisi of each instrument to play up to 3 notes, but this will be limited by the instrument's playable range. If you play 3 notes in both hands across the keyboard, the right hand three will sound on violins I and II, violas probably and maybe the cello. For the left hand it's likely no violins, some viola maybe and so on. So it's not a very good system, but it still sounds nice in the video don't it?

It's actually a bit of a failing of LASS 3 is that there is no multi script, which is what the ARC used to do. That was horrifically complex, but it's shame they didn't do some multis with a simple multiscript in that could handling splitting the divisis on a logical per-instrument basis, also adding first chairs. You'd need to use Divisimate otherwise.

Whilst mucking around, I realised I've been making life unnecessarily taxing on my machine sometimes. If I want to use LASS in the good old fashioned way of 5 monophonic instruments, I'm better off using patches in the Full Sections (Divisi Mixdowns) folder - just streaming one set of samples not 3. It's a bit silly that these patches default to polyphonic imo, but I guess it's easy enough to disable them then save the patches as a default state (also with my keyswitch map too). Once I'm sent the fixed patches I'll get on with this I think.

Guy Rowland wrote: ↑Aug 29, 2023 2:31 pm 3 1/2 tedious hours later - all instances replaced in all projects successfully. To be on the safe side I replaced with Kontakt 7.

So to all LASS 3 users - at the first hint of any trouble, or maybe even before, I'd recommend dropping Audiobro support a line. At least do some nervous checks if you've used LASS 3 recently, especially in Kontakt 6 - just make sure the projects re-open ok. Although they've changed stuff their end, Sebastian feels there may well have been a bug fix in K7 recently that didn't get updated in 6 which has reached EOL.

Guy Rowland wrote: ↑Aug 30, 2023 11:50 am Chores all done, so I've done a quick video here of how I use it. Not really getting into the weeds which I tend to avoid, just covering the basics.