Now if I am going off the wall and I want to layer my organ with my harpsichord, I can just put them both on MIDI channel 1 or omni. I can get rid of an instrument just by hitting the X here if I want, but just remember that KONTAKT by default is going to give you sequential MIDI channels because it doesn't think you want to control everything with the same controller. And you'll see that if I instantiate another instrument, it will be on MIDI channel 3. And our organ down here is actually automatically instantiated on channel 2. And so what we have here is our harpsichord on MIDI channel 1, and A in this case, in KONTAKT, is always going to refer to your host MIDI coming from your DAW. So you can think of this KONTAKT rack as like a hardware rack like we used to have back in the day of hardware synthesizers that could all be controlled by one keyboard over different MIDI channels. Why, you may ask? Well, the answer is that KONTAKT is designed to run more than one instrument at a time in the KONTAKT rack. And if we go ahead and start playing right now, (instrumental music) we're actually going to still only hear our harpsichord. Okay, what you're seeing is that now, instead of just having replaced our harpsichord, we've actually opened the organ in addition to the harpsichord. Let's do pipe organ and that, again, is gonna be under orchestral. Actually, I'm looking for more of an organ sound. So let's say for example I'm gonna bag it with the harpsichord, and I can just go ahead and hit the X to go back to the beginning here. And now I might want to actually move to a different instrument. Then I can find an orchestral harpsichord, and there it is, the instrument is right here. So say, for example, I want to find some certain type of piano, I have to look through all of these different piano libraries, whereas if I went to my database, I could just hit piano keys then maybe, oh, I actually want a harpsichord but I wasn't sure where to look. And the good thing about these attributes is that they reach across all of the different libraries that we're looking in.
If your database is set up, what you can actually do is use these different attributes to find some of the things that you're looking for. Another great place to look for factory materials is database. That's what I'm gonna focus on as far as the library materials that we're working with. The main ones that you want to think about are Factory Library. So if you're not seeing all of these, don't worry about it. Now a lot of these are extras that were added on too that come with Native Instruments Complete, the Ultimate Collection and so forth. The libraries is where we're gonna find all of the different factory materials that came with KONTAKT from NI. Our files tab is where we can just see our computer system that we're working on with all of our different hard drives, and then we have our libraries. If you're not seeing the browse window, just hit this little Manila folder up at the top. I've instantiated KONTAKT in Logic and on the left-hand side we can see our browser.