Glad you are learning a lot! Thanks for the feedback, I'm trying to find a better way to present code for future videos, because it can be a challenge to read and hit the pause button at the right time lol.
Hey Dyami, unfortunately note, it is a manual process to create the knobs frame by frame. A lot of it can be copied and pasted, then adjusted slightly for the next animation, but it is time consuming I'm not going to lie haha. Knobman is a great app for generating the animations automatically, I'd recommend that if you want something quicker for sure. I just like to design every aspect of the knob myself, so Affinity Designer gives me that flexibility and control.
Or, if a Gif is not working, could you assign a picture to e.g. the volume of the instrument? so everytime the instrument makes a sound the "knob" would move accordingly? i'm searching for a way to make parts of my GUI move without moving a knob or a slider
Hey Yassin, I don't believe Gifs are available in Kontakt, though I've never tried. Mostly, Kontakt uses film strip animations, as in one PNG file that has all the stages of the animation laid out in series, and a text file to interpret it. It's possible that you could have an "on note" callback that maybe triggers a modulator, which in turn triggers a knob tied to the modulator, though I've never tried to animate things automatically in this way. It would be cool to see how you get on and I'll have to try it out for myself to see if I can find a way.
Thank you but I have a question: could I use other kontakt library interface and knobs and put other sounds? What would be the result? Did you test this way or you like to design by your own?
Hey Amir, you could try and use someone else's design for testing, provided you have the permission, script file and graphics. I created a demo script for example that anyone can use, though it doesn't include graphics: ruclips.net/video/eCXIeTgBGY4/видео.html. However, I definitely encourage you to create the design and the script together, I think you end up with a more well laid out instrument if you do it this way. You could use my script from the link as a test for the library, to try out certain features, but you could then design your own layout based on what you liked from the test. Hope this helps!
Hey again, I'm making my graphics in Microsoft Excel and annoyingly when you export a PNG it adds an extra pixel - so my full width becomes 1001. Do you know if Kontakt would just cut off this rogue pixel when I load in the image or would it squish/blur it? Any insight would be hugely appreciated. I don't want to make the image smaller if I can help it as then it would become significantly smaller, due to the Excel grid system..
Hey Sam, great question. For things that have a strict size limit, like the 1000px width of the background, Kontakt just cuts this off. Inside elements like Labels as well, if you set the background of the label and then reduce the size of the label, it will cut off the image. So that could be handy in your case. Though sliders don't seem to work this way, or buttons and lists or anything else that is a control where you apply a picture to the control itself. That will be set to whatever size you created, but if its just a pixel on the bottom or right side and its completely transparent, you shouldn't notice anything. It always preferences top left corner unless you change the alignment. Hope this helps!
@@StephenOConnellCmdShiftNew Thanks so much for the replies, super helpful, really appreciate it. Sounds Like I'm on the right track with everything - scripting going better than expected thanks to your videos! I have another couple of quick Q's. I've been scouring the manual and can't find the set_engine_par info for a GUI button that reverses the samples of all groups - weird as it's so easy to do when you click the spanner with the button right there. Any idea how that's done? Another seemingly simple thing I can't seem to find - is there a way to add a 'mono' button for specific groups. My samples are in stereo and I might not always want them as such, would be nice to blend from a mono'd group into a stereo one sometimes etc.. again any help would be hugely appreciated thank you 🙏🙏🙏
this might be exactly what i was looking for for months!
Great video! Looking forward to the next part. Thank you!
Have learned a lot from you.But I really wish you could zoom in when you are showing code so I can read it well.
Glad you are learning a lot! Thanks for the feedback, I'm trying to find a better way to present code for future videos, because it can be a challenge to read and hit the pause button at the right time lol.
Videos are great, but the resolution needs to be higher. The text in your code is not readable on-screen.
Does affinity design have a feature that creates the frames of animation for say, a slider like knobman or did you have to do that manually?
Hey Dyami, unfortunately note, it is a manual process to create the knobs frame by frame. A lot of it can be copied and pasted, then adjusted slightly for the next animation, but it is time consuming I'm not going to lie haha. Knobman is a great app for generating the animations automatically, I'd recommend that if you want something quicker for sure. I just like to design every aspect of the knob myself, so Affinity Designer gives me that flexibility and control.
Waiting for the following parts, please upload em quick. :D
Hey Ekram, great news. I have all 3 parts in a playlist for you. NEXT STEPS: Kontakt Custom Graphcis
ruclips.net/p/PL9PMDexJWBpqPBwI8I5ZOsNMtQi952qI0
@@StephenOConnellCmdShiftNew Started to get into this library building thing and stumbled upon your videos! Thank you
Or, if a Gif is not working, could you assign a picture to e.g. the volume of the instrument? so everytime the instrument makes a sound the "knob" would move accordingly?
i'm searching for a way to make parts of my GUI move without moving a knob or a slider
Hey Yassin, I don't believe Gifs are available in Kontakt, though I've never tried. Mostly, Kontakt uses film strip animations, as in one PNG file that has all the stages of the animation laid out in series, and a text file to interpret it. It's possible that you could have an "on note" callback that maybe triggers a modulator, which in turn triggers a knob tied to the modulator, though I've never tried to animate things automatically in this way. It would be cool to see how you get on and I'll have to try it out for myself to see if I can find a way.
just wondering.. could the backround also be a gif? i kinda guess no, but if yes this would be a very cool visual feature for my instrument
Thank you but I have a question: could I use other kontakt library interface and knobs and put other sounds? What would be the result? Did you test this way or you like to design by your own?
Hey Amir, you could try and use someone else's design for testing, provided you have the permission, script file and graphics. I created a demo script for example that anyone can use, though it doesn't include graphics: ruclips.net/video/eCXIeTgBGY4/видео.html. However, I definitely encourage you to create the design and the script together, I think you end up with a more well laid out instrument if you do it this way. You could use my script from the link as a test for the library, to try out certain features, but you could then design your own layout based on what you liked from the test. Hope this helps!
Hey again, I'm making my graphics in Microsoft Excel and annoyingly when you export a PNG it adds an extra pixel - so my full width becomes 1001. Do you know if Kontakt would just cut off this rogue pixel when I load in the image or would it squish/blur it? Any insight would be hugely appreciated. I don't want to make the image smaller if I can help it as then it would become significantly smaller, due to the Excel grid system..
Hey Sam, great question. For things that have a strict size limit, like the 1000px width of the background, Kontakt just cuts this off. Inside elements like Labels as well, if you set the background of the label and then reduce the size of the label, it will cut off the image. So that could be handy in your case. Though sliders don't seem to work this way, or buttons and lists or anything else that is a control where you apply a picture to the control itself. That will be set to whatever size you created, but if its just a pixel on the bottom or right side and its completely transparent, you shouldn't notice anything. It always preferences top left corner unless you change the alignment. Hope this helps!
@@StephenOConnellCmdShiftNew Thanks so much for the replies, super helpful, really appreciate it. Sounds Like I'm on the right track with everything - scripting going better than expected thanks to your videos! I have another couple of quick Q's. I've been scouring the manual and can't find the set_engine_par info for a GUI button that reverses the samples of all groups - weird as it's so easy to do when you click the spanner with the button right there. Any idea how that's done? Another seemingly simple thing I can't seem to find - is there a way to add a 'mono' button for specific groups. My samples are in stereo and I might not always want them as such, would be nice to blend from a mono'd group into a stereo one sometimes etc.. again any help would be hugely appreciated thank you 🙏🙏🙏
some pro course to be able to learn 100% of the script and so on