Enter Edit mode and for any of the multiple pages of controls you can reassign dials to control any available parameter, and thus make your own controller presets for any VST instrument. NI provides a free Controller Editor app so you can build your own templates for hardware (when you flip into standalone mode) but crucially this is also possible from inside the software. So you still get multiple pages of controls with names, that can be tweaked from the hardware, they’re just not arranged specially for the hardware by default. The parameters inside your non-NKS instrument aren’t specifically mapped to the Native Map system but many of them do appear nonetheless. All the stuff that gets sent as MIDI from the hardware like scales, arpeggios and the touch strips works here like it does with any MIDI destination.Įdit and create your own maps to link the hardware to instruments not yet officially supported, or indeed tweak those that are. Presets aren’t visible to the hardware either, but your instrument’s software interface still works just like it should so loading and saving behave as expected. You don’t get tags or a place in the browser but you can still load any VST plug-in with the mouse inside the KK app. Well the good news is that you can still do a surprising amount. Let’s turn now to what you can do if your favourite plug-ins aren’t NKS compatible yet, or indeed may never be. So for example when an instrument doesn’t occupy the whole range of the keyboard, the lights will show you that. Compatible instruments can also use the Light Guide system. You don’t seem to be able to load effects remotely although you can switch them on and off if they are already present. There’s the odd limitation such as the fact that effect sections for the Wurlitzer and Vox V are pre-mapped as expected but you still have to load an effect using the mouse, or save a preset with an effect loaded. With Arturia’s compatible instruments this worked brilliantly and provided far more intuitive control than using the mouse ever could. Light Guide is one of the things that NKS plugs can use. So you might choose a synth and then filter for patches that were leads, and with effects on. You can select an instrument from the hardware and then use the navigation dial and arrow keys to filter using tags if you like. This is set by the developer so that drums always appear in the drums section, organs under keyboards and so on. The first thing you get with NKS compatibility is a presence in the KK browser so that when you press Browse on the hardware your instrument appears under the relevant category. I was able to test Arturia’s V Collection to see how the linking actually worked in practice. Let’s start with the instruments that are already compatible at the time of writing. As you’d expect, integration is seamless but it’s the expansion to third-party instruments that’s the real news. Arturia has the most at present with its whole V Collection 4 already set up to work with Komplete Kontrol.Īs far as NI’s own instruments go, not all that much has changed in terms of interaction between the hardware and software so I’m not going to dwell on it. A specific list can be found on the site and not every instrument from every company will get compatibility, but this list can only grow as time passes. These include Arturia, Heavyocity, Softube, Spitfire Audio, U-He, Output and more. Having played around with the technology (and I stress I’m not a developer), it feels like it’s mostly about mapping controls to certain standards, which isn’t spectacularly difficult if you’ve already built a whole software instrument.Īt launch there are a fair few big-name developers already on board or about to come on board with compatible updates. This will encourage users to get involved in NI’s hardware ecosystem and from the developers’ point of view, lets them boast of greater compatibility with hardware. As such, NI states that updates to third-party plugs to bring NKS compatibility will be free rather than rolled into paid updates. Not another plug-in format!īefore you start fretting about yet another plug-in format to cope with, it should be noted that NKS isn’t like the difference between AU and VST, or AAX and AU-it’s an “extended” format which adds functionality rather than being a complete rewrite. Third-party instruments can now work as seamlessly as NI’s own.
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