Vir2 Instruments Acoustic Legends HD - Manual (Page 60)

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that you assign host automation IDs #0 to #9 to a patch to control
typical synth features; now if you load the patch into Kontakt rack
slots 3 and 7 in your song you would want to select different LFO
settings for the two slots; this is now possible with this new feature
because the second instance of your patch now gets host IDs #10 to
#19 instead!
Library Path: This is the “User Patches” save location. Here you can
save User tweaked instruments and combination multis (from many
libraries). By default it is set to the Kontakt 2 Application folder. If you
move that folder to another location, use this option to reset the
“User Patches” path.
Tab 5: Search/DB
This screen gives you options to specify what folders or volumes
should be used when using search functions.
Tab 6: DFD - Direct from Disk
Amount of Memory for DFD: Adjusts the amount of RAM to
dedicate to the DFD process. Although samples stream from disk, it
is necessary to store attacks in RAM so they are available instantly
upon playback. If DFD isn’t working properly, try allocating more
RAM to this function.
Purge Menu
Purge analyzes which samples were used in an arrangement, and
removes from RAM any samples that weren’t used. Thus, Kontakt
Player 2 can handle huge amounts of samples while exhibiting very
low RAM usage. Scoring of large ensembles with many instruments
and samples now becomes manageable.
Purge is available here on a Global level, but is also available on the
Instrument level. You would use Global purge after a song was done,
and you wanted to remove all unneeded samples. The Instrument