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Thanks for your reply. I did download the free player and I'm a 360 member. I've been learning the tools they are cool. I have some feed back for the chords
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Hi @D-One , apologies for the delayed response. Regarding your last point, the first two Tools were initially designed to serve as an inspirational kickstart, with the Playbox case significantly influencing some design decisions. In particular, the arrangement of chords and phrases follows a harmonic progression rather than strictly adhering to the harmonic grades of a scale. This provides ready-to-use content that can be useful in certain contexts but may lack synergy between the two modules as you correctly observed.
Recognizing that some users may want more control over this, we introduced an "Advanced" mode accessible through the settings. This mode offers a different experience, including a remote octave for phrase and chord selection via keyswitches, and extends the selected entries across the keyboard, enabling modal or chromatic performance. By selecting the same phrase and chord in each tool, the Advanced mode might enhance the affinity between the two modules.
Here is a video demonstrating a quick example of this functionality:
Additionally, there's a list of phrases and chords that share the same mapping, identifiable by their matching names:
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Hi! How can I open up K8 in classic view by default? It seems no matter what I do, it always displays the new overview with the smaller library thumbnails on the left. I am used to the classic view and find it most intuitive.
Edit: Nevermind, found the "set as default" option in the menu :D
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Question: If we start creating Leap user content, will NI setup a forum to share that, and do NI see that as something cool to support?
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Agree.
One of the missed opportunities with Machine was not having an official editor to easily design and create kits. Both Leap and next Maschine software should have better user editing support, adding covers, hero graphics etcs.
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I like the new Tool Chords, but I want to just play along to a pattern once I get something that I like. So a pattern play button should turn off your key chords so that you can play along.
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Fantastic suggestion. Will see what we can do here!
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And that’s a wrap, everyone. We're closing this Q&A thread now. Huge thanks to all of you for your great questions and a big shoutout to the Kontakt 8 product managers and designers for joining us these past two weeks. We may still get to a few unanswered questions next week, so stay tuned. Hopefully, this AMA gave you a clearer picture of where Kontakt 8 is headed, and rest assured we've taken note of all your feedback.
For questions not related to Kontakt 8, don’t worry - Our Chief Product Officer will be sharing a quarterly update soon, where you’ll be able to ask about any of our products.
Thanks again and see you next time!
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Heads up: Simon, our Chief Product Officer, has just shared the latest quarterly update:
If you have any questions about products beyond Kontakt 8 that haven't been addressed in this thread, feel free to ask them there.
The thread will be open until this Friday, October 11, 2024 only. Don't miss out!
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This is still an IF rather than a WHEN. Could you send me a PM (this thread is closed)?
I'd be interested to hear more about how you use those features.
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This is a great question!
Kontakt could expose this, but doesn't yet do so.
Whilst we plan to do something here, realistically it won't happen in 2024 - but rather be a focus in 2025.
Tagging @Tim_NI as he and I were just chatting about this yesterday. 🤭
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Here you go! Using Kontakt 8 in Maschine
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