Using Kontakt as a VST

Dear Anyone.

I'm disabled so I have to use a notation package, can't play a keyboard. And I'm trying to use Kontakt as a plug-in for it. Anyway.

Got a Gigabyte mobo (that's the firm that makes it!) with a gig of RAM and pentium 4-style processor. And an M-Audio Audiophile 2496 soundcard.

Software: Sion Quick Score Elite notation package and Kontakt 3 with the libraries that come with it. It's legal.

QSE has two main folders, one housing the program and one called VST Plug-ins. It supports Rewire. Installed Kontakt into the Plug-ins folder and got a MIDI feedback loop going that threatened to shatter the soundcard. Uninstalled Kontakt, reinstalled the soundcard, MIDI loop stopped. So.

I've never tried to install a VST before in my life. I know it stands for Virtual Studio Technology, that's all I know. How, from scratch, do I add it to the VST Plug-ins library so there's no MIDI feedback loop? I want to start up QSE, put the instruments I'm using into Kontakt and hear the notes I put into the sequencer with the mouse played back on the Kontakt sounds.

If there's a tutorial on this somewhere, tell me! But be warned - my knowledge is SO basic, tutorials usually start where my brain ends. They're telling me how to do loads of wonderful things and I still can't find the ON switch! I CAN read music fluently, use the notation sequencer and that's about it - I've been using Windows sounds up till now.

If it comes to this, I know there's a program called MIDI Yoke which is like a universal Reason Rewire, but I don't know how to use that properly either (can't make Kontakt see it.) Anyone who can help with either of these 2 ideas - would prefer the plug-in solution if poss - please help!

Yours harmoniously

ulrichburke

Hello Ulrich!

Do you want to use Kontakt with the notation software or with a sequencer? I am not an expert, but I think a sequencer should automatically update its VST library whenever it finds a new VST plugin. If it is the former, I think you have to do something with the midi ports (input, output)...

Alexandros