I needed to do this a long time ago as there's a lot of confusion about what does what in the Instrument Editor. Hopefully this will keep you guys going until I have the time to do a tutorial for the Instrument Editor...



1 PRESET STRIP
These are the preset nodes you'll use to store and recall up to 12 different presets per instrument editor unit. An instrument preset is the state of all the parameters: condition strips, flag options, note modes, scale, chords, control strips.. everything within each instrument. You store presets by holding shift and left-clicking a "node" (small circle thing). To recall the preset, click a single time on one of the nodes that have a preset stored in them.

2 EXTERNAL PRESET CONTROL
Setup a MIDI note input to swap between the 12 different presets - very useful for live-sets. Play a note on either a MIDI keyboard or from your DAW... preset 1 = C, preset 2 = C#, preset 3 = D...... preset 12 = B. It doesn't matter which octave you play.

3 CONDITION/TRIGGER STRIP
Here you create a condition to trigger the instrument action. Setup a range for an input value to trigger the action.

4 INSTRUMENT UNIT MENUIf you need to manually export or import instrument save files from other projects you can do that here. You can also copy the current state of an instrument and paste it into another. Finally, you can either "clear" the current state of the instrument, or "clear all" of the presets "nodes" of that instrument as well as the current state of all its options.

5 NOTE MODEChoose the type or style of instrument you'd like to play. Static is good for single triggers like drums or turning effects on and off. Solo is great for playing a scale. Chord is obviously good for playing chords. They all work differently, so spend time with each one.

6 TRIGGER MODEEach "note mode" has it's own trigger modes. This give you options on how the "action" or note is handled depending on the trigger's "TRUE/FALSE" state. You'll also need to explore these for each note mode.

7 MIDI OUTPUT DEVICEThis is where you set where you'd like the MIDI notes to be sent. This might be an external MIDI device, or an internal MIDI channel for playing software synths.

8 - CONTROL SELECTORSIn each of the sections with these buttons, there is a value that can be controlled with an external value.. ie. Solo Mode's controllable value is the note you'd like to play in that scale, Chord Mode's controllable value is the chord you'd like to play, Velocity's controllable value is of course the velocity. The "Control Strip" will change accordingly to display the controller input setup for each of the Control Selectors.

9 CONTROL STRIPThis is in the bottom right hand corner of each instrument. It will allow you to setup a controller to manipulate parameters in the Instrument Editor. Use the Control Selectors to choose which of the parameters you'd like to setup a controller for.

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OK so when I set up an instrument I think I'm still confused about bits of the editor (quite a lot of it actually) the problem I want to solve first however is that in the actions section I only seem to be able to set it to out put repeated notes dat dat dat dat dat dat rather than as if I'd held a key down continuously - how do I approach that?

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I got it!!!!

I'm so happy ....it works!!!



This is a screen capture of my config ... If it can help

Righthand fromkinectar1
Lefthand fromkinectar2

Solo on hold (for an organ)

OSX 10.6.8

I don't know if it's a bug but the Control selectors are not saved by presets.

OSX 10.6.8
kinectar 0.8.3

Chris is working on the saving issues with osx - tricky without having a machine, Well done on getting it up and running though - is super cool when it's working