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11.19.2019 Announcement - I'm working on a video series that will focus on music theory, composition and orchestration. I will announce it and give more details in a video that should go out before the end of this month. I've put many hours of work into this. Hope to see everyone!
Steve

UPDATE COMING 5/2019 - HOW TO Kontakt 6 Optimization in your DAW with Vienna Ensemble Pro 7. There will be some serious professional level optimization tricks included in this video. In 2016 most clients were running 4-core i7s, 16GBs of RAM with HDDs and maybe a single SSD. Now, in 2019 almost every client has Xeon CPUs, a slave PC, 64GBs to 128GBs of RAM and multiple SSDs. If you liked this video, the upcoming Kontakt 6/VEP7 video will change your world!

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I spend hours making every one of these video because every ounce of the content is made by me.

NOTE ABOUT AUDIO: Too much "air" high-shelving was applied to my voiceover, (and possibly de-essing was not applied). It's overwhelming. I get it. However, this video is 3 years old and there's nothing I can do to fix it. ALL of my videos over the past two years have been completely checked and cleaned up with RX before uploading. I would appreciate it if the "mouth sounds" comments would cease. Yes, a quick funny comment is tempting, I'd probably do it too (actually wouldn't), but enough already. Problem was solved years ago. Thank you to those of you who appreciated the video and continue to contact and support my video work.

Regards,
Steve Steele

Also see: HOW TO Advanced Kontakt mixer outputs in Vienna Ensemble Pro 6. https://youtu.be/7MCAj6fwJyE

I bring you these tutorials for free because I want to share and spread knowledge. It generally takes the better part of a day to create one video, especially the longer videos.

NEED A CUSTOM VEP TEMPLATE? I BUILD TEMPLATES FOR LEADING COMPOSERS EVERY WEEK.

That's what I do (and train clients in VEP and several DAWs and include workflow solutions so you'll have a smooth running system - no crashes, just works). Contact me. I've built custom Vienna Ensemble Pro templates for many Hollywood and Disney composers. I provide training and support for those that need it. I AM VSL CERTIFIED (official VSL Cert. badge on home page).
Btw, I'm also a Music Theory and Composition instructor.

I have custom TouchOSC and Metagrid control templates that I give away for free to clients. These support many popular sample libraries, most DAWs and Vienna Ensemble Pro. Go to my website for more information: http://www.stevesteele.com

About this video:

In this video I show you five ways to optimize Kontakt 5 in a large film scoring type template to take up less of a memory footprint, use less CPU threads and how to save the optimize version in your template.

Topics I cover:
1. Kontakt's Multiprocessor Support (CPU core count).
2. Kontakt's Database and how to manage it.
3. How Kontakt's uses DFD and how to set it for your system.
4. Kontakt's CPU Profiling Mode
5. How to correctly Purge Kontakt.

I also provide a Terminal tip for OS X (macOS) users and a couple of Vienna Ensemble Pro tips.

Steve Steele