Modartt user forum - Native Instruments UNA CORDA

Re: Native Instruments UNA CORDA

2016-11-30T14:07:47Z

Thank You and Thank You.

Re: Native Instruments UNA CORDA

2016-11-30T07:29:36Z

All you need is Kontakt Player for Una Corda. Editing is possible in it, but to go out of demo mode you gotta have a serial number and activate the library in Service Center, or Native Access applications.

Re: Native Instruments UNA CORDA

2016-11-30T07:09:28Z

I received Kontakt via my purchase a year or two ago of Komplete 10 (now Komplete 11). There may be lower-cost or free hosts that function similarly - I do not know.

Re: Native Instruments UNA CORDA

2016-11-30T03:35:47Z

Are you using Kontakt 5 or Kontakt 5 Player with Una Corda?

I do not have Kontakt 5 and it appears that I will be limited to editing for the first 15 minutes with Kontakt 5 Player.

I guess I will try to contact Kontakt. I've been told that contacting Kontakt is not easy.

Re: Native Instruments UNA CORDA

2016-11-30T03:09:48Z

I do not know of limitations on Kontakt.

Una Corda is certainly different and interesting. No better opinions yet.

Re: Native Instruments UNA CORDA

2016-11-30T01:41:48Z

Hello dklein,

I downloaded your Una Corda FXP. It was nice but... I understand why you downloaded the N.I. Una Corda. I look forward to any additional insights you have on the Una Corda.

I posted this at a different forum but you might know some of the answers to my Questions:

"I do not own any Native Instruments products but I love the sound of the Una Corda which is on sale for $74.50.
I have Pianoteq which I use as a free standing program. If I decide to record anything I will likely use my Tascam DP-03.
If I buy the Una Corda it looks like I would use the free Kontakt 5 Player.
According to this webpage:
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/p....-kontakt/
There are limitations on editing with the free Kontakt 5 Player.
While I can understand the limitations on demo sounds I would hope that there would be NO limitations on a product I buy from N.I.
Anybody got any insight on this? Any opinions on Una Corda?"

Re: Native Instruments UNA CORDA

2016-11-27T22:40:09Z

Well, way different sounding at home on my piano/computer-driven electronic piano. The speakers sound way different from the headphones, and will take some taming and work to get the sound which I envisioned from the videos and from the headphones.

Typical for many of the NI presets, they each vary greatly in volume and stereo imaging, the former of which is most annoying.

The instrument is quite curious, as the samples are done both via acoustic microphones around the instrument, but also as blends with electric pick-ups next to the strings. A hybrid acoustic/electric instrument of its own.

Native Instruments UNA CORDA

2016-11-27T12:11:50Z

While visiting my parents for Thanksgiving, traveling with my tablet computer, X-Key 37 keyboard, and a pair of folding MEelectronics earphones, I took advantage of the Native Instruments Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale and bought the David Klavins' UNA CORDA instrument for Kontakt for $75 instead of $150. Having heard various YouTube clips of it previously, the purity of the concept was intriguing. I have previously worked through Pianoteq to try to simulate its sound through Preset modifications, but not done a great job.

At 10 GB, the sampled item is quite large. Three sampled sets are included: the "pure" instrument, and then one sampled set each with a curtain of cotton and then a curtain of felt between the hammers and the strings. There are many ways to tweak the sound, including the standard resonances, reverb, etc., as well as ways to tweak the mechanical sounds of the open-framed piano. Each of their three sample sets comes with various presets, some excellent, and some annoying. So far my favorites are: Pure Instrument (Basic, Church Organ, Compressed Wool); Felt Instrument (Basic, Sad, Tremolo Rhodes); and Cotton (Basic, Light Swell).

At my stage in the 'learning piano' business (not actually my business), I often play simple tunes and simple improvisations - the Una Corda is quite elegant for this, as it has a haunting sparsity to it. Even standards, like Summertime, played as a solo right-handed melody, or over a single left-handed harmony note series instead of full chords, takes on an almost eerie yet gripping importance on such an instrument. It's kind of like a clarinet or saxophone version of a piano - those instruments do quite well with single tones and no accompaniment - the Una Corda brings that type of beautiful sparsity for the piano world.