Alo Phogg's Music Blogg

Here's the third instalment in my occasional series about my so-called home studio. This time we're talking about my gear. The previous instalments were: Part 1 - The Room Part 2 - The Desk If you'd rather watch than read then take a look at the following video: If you prefer to read, keep going. I can't promise I'll cover everything that's in the video, but I'll try to give a good overview of what I've got. There may even be some extra info here that didn't make it into the video. Background As mentioned in the first instalment, for years I had nowhere permanent to house my gear, so I had to keep everything light so it could be set up and taken down after every session. That gear was simply a recording bundle from Focusrite comprising of their 1st edition Scarlett 2i2 interface with Focusrite branded condenser mic and headphones: They were joined later on by a 1st generation Novation Launchkey 25 MIDI controller: Unfortunately the constant plugging...

I've just wasted half an hour of my life trying to work out how to make an unwanted Kontakt library disappear from the library tab of Kontakt's browser pane and from Native Access. Why? Well a few weeks ago I upgraded from Kontakt Player to the full version of Kontakt. Player comes with the Factory Library Selection library which contains a subset of the instruments of the full Kontakt Factory Library that I now have. So I no longer need the Factory Selection library and wanted to remove it. I loaded up Native Access and searched for the uninstall button. Guess what? No such button. OK, could I delete the library from Kontakt? Nope. I can hide it, but not delete it. Great. Anyway after a bit of Googling I found how to do it on Windows ... manually delete the library and hack the registry! Yeah, really! Mac users have to search out and delete something called a plist , apparently. And where on the Native Instruments website did I find this gem of information? I didn...