User Manual

ALICIA’S KEYS User Manual – 9
3 Interface and Operation
This chapter will introduce you to ALICIA’S KEYS specic controls, which are situated in the
Performance View section of the Instrument within your KONTAKT/ KONTAKT PLAYER software.
► Press the Performance View button ( PV ) in the lower right of the Instrument Header to
show/hide the Performance View.
The Performance View button in the Instrument Header
To learn how to operate the Instrument Header’s controls, refer to the documentation of your
KONTAKT/ KONTAKT PLAYER software.
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Note that ALICIA’S KEYS will not work properly if you transpose it using KONTAKT’s
Instrument option MIDI Transpose (Instrument Options > Instrument > MIDI Transpose):
pedal noises will not sound, and ‘pedal down’ samples will not be released, but play until end.
3.1 Basic Controls
There are six basic types of controls: knobs, sliders, buttons, drop-down menus, click menus,
and numericals.
3.1.1 Knobs
• To change a knob value, click on it and drag up to move the knob clockwise, or down to
move it counter-clockwise.
• Knobs can be ne-tuned by holding down your computer keyboard’s [Shift] key as you
move the knob.
• [Ctrl] + Click (Mac OS
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X: [Cmd] + Click) resets a knob to its default value.