So you’ve got yourself some lovely samples that use the Kontakt sample player! Well done you, as there are some stunning libraries available for this sample player.

You use your samples in your favorite DAW with no trouble at all, yet you are stumped when it comes to Sibelius, as everyone knows it is almost impossible to use Kontakt with Sibelius WITHOUT a Sound-Set, that mystical bit of software that enables all the articulations and dynamics to change with instructions in your score!

Well, you can use Kontakt without a Sound-Set for your all-time favorite samples in Sibelius Ultimate. It’s not as elegant as using a Sound-Set, but it’s perfectly possible and a lot of fun to do!

This course will show you all you need to know to set up Sibelius Ultimate with Kontakt using Key-switch staves.

These key-switch staves will allow you to change articulations in your scores whenever you want (so long as your library of choice uses key-switches) and I’ll show you how to do this using Native Instruments ‘Session Strings Pro‘ as an example.

As with all my courses, the video in each lesson shows how to do everything, but for this course, I have assumed that you know how to input notes into a score, but if you don’t, there is a tonne of info in the blog section showing how to do things in Sibelius, so if you are new to the software, check it out here, as note entry, and a whole host more are covered.