Organ Swells

Kontakt Version Manual

Installation

Fortunately, Kontakt makes installation very simple. Load up any of the .NKI files to start!

Included Files

Included in the Kontakt version are a number of .NKI files. The one simply labeled “Organ Swells” is the Notes version, offering traditional triggering of individual notes. There are also a number of .NKI files with a key next to them. These are the key-specific versions triggering relative chords instead of individual notes. See the “Using Chords” section below for more information on those. The last version is under the “Advanced” folder, labeled “Custom Chords”. For more information about using this file, see the “Using Custom Chords” section below.

Kontakt Interface

The device interface has a number of envelope and EQ options at your fingertips. Attack is recommended to stay at 0.00 milliseconds as there’s already a slow attack. By default, Release, by default, is at 5.1k milliseconds but depending how fast moving a chord progression is, may need to be shifted accordingly. Tone (LPF) is, by default, wide open, but if you want to kick the swells back in the mix a bit and mellow them out, this is a great place to start!

Using Chords

Unlike most other sample libraries, the chords side is key-specific. It has every chord (major, minor, inversions) sampled with a two-octave span and, as the desired key is loaded, it allows the appropriate chords to be triggered within that key. For instance, if you select the key of C, this is what would play when you hit the following notes:

Using Custom Chords

Normal key selection works for the majority of songs in normal major and Mixolydian modes. When playing songs outside of those modes or where there are chords outside the traditional chords of those modes, Custom Chords is great to have around! With this setting, the keyboard is divided into three octaves of chords. C1 through B1 are all the major chords, C2 through B2 are all the minor chords and C3 through B3 are all the inversions (1/3, 5/7). This lets you trigger whichever chord you want at any time.

Tech Specs

  • Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz 24 bit

  • Download Size: 515.6 MB

  • Library Size: 520.2 MB

Requirements

  • Full Kontakt version 6.7.1 or higher

  • 4GB RAM required, 8 GB recommended

Questions?

For any additional questions you have on Organ Swells or any other library, please contact us.