Loading instruments from Kontakt 7 into Maschine

J. Spencer

Let's start with: I'm new to Maschine (and really any NI software that's not Traktor Pro).

I recently picked up a new Mikro and bought Komplete Standard. I know I can load something, like the Butch Vig Candyassed drums for example, into a Sound slot. From there, I can switch to keyboard mode and change the root to C1 to play the pads. While I'd love to have multi-colored pads here, it works. I've also done the drag-n-drop of the premade Patterns into the keyboard and messed around.

That's all great and fun, but my real question is how I can prevent Maschine from opening a new Kontakt plug-in window every time I load it into a Sound slot? For example, if I wanted to map individual kit sounds to Sound slots 1-4, Maschine is opening up multiple Kontact windows for each one.

I hope I'm just doing it wrong, but that also seems like a huge waste of resources for mapping a bunch of single sounds from the same kit. Am I forced to use Keyboard mode?

D-One

You can use Pad Mode, you just need to load the Instrument in one Pad, then route the MIDI Out of all other Pads into the Pad that has the instrument and transpose each one o they send the correct notes.

Read my comment here: https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/84970/#Comment_84970

It's basically this:

Paule

IMHO you can load a sound and library to Maschine but not a Kontakt instrument (.nki) direct in Maschine.

Jeremy_NI

@J. Spencer You should be able to open a multi output version of Kontakt in Maschine, this way you can assign the outputs of Kontakt to sound slots in the same Maschine group. I think @D-One can explain how or maybe give a link?

D-One

You can use Pad Mode, you just need to load the Instrument in one Pad, then route the MIDI Out of all other Pads into the Pad that has the instrument and transpose each one o they send the correct notes.

Read my comment here: https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/84970/#Comment_84970

It's basically this:

J. Spencer

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/85645#Comment_85645

Awesome! It's not a perfect solution, but it's pretty much what I'm trying to do. Thank you @D-One for this simple solution.

The plugin showing/not showing is a bit much, thankfully I can close it once they are loaded to prevent it from turning on and off repeatedly.