S-Series MK3 Standalone MIDI Template Documentation

velanche · 2024-09-22T19:18:41+00:00

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Greets:
As of now, ther user manual, at least the PDF version, seems to have not been updated to include comprehensive documentation on the use and creation of MIDI Templates. There are a few videos and some online docs, but as a novice, would love to get more detailed info. This is especially true for the editing of the text files it generates: what does it do, what info can be edited/modified, etc.

I'd appreciate any info that can be offered; I am planning to create one this week…again. I tried the first time earlier this month, but haven't gotten it right. (Logic Pro Smart Controls, in this case.)

Thanks!

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Jeremy_NI

An update to the user manual should come soon, in the meantime you can find the information here: How to create custom MIDI Templates with Kontrol S MK3

@Matthew_NI When can we expect the manual to be updated?

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Maciej Repetowski

It sure would be nice to have updated user manual on this, especially that Play Assist on device is around the corner…

velanche

It's just good and helpful practice, IMO, to have good documentation on day of, or at least within a very short time frame (about 2 weeks), so as for those of us not so experienced, or at least with some basic experience, to take advantage of what's been offered. I've initially struggled with it when I tried creating a Smart Controls for Logic Pro template, so would be nice to not feel like it can be a stab in the dark to learn to create them, and how best to do so.

Jeremy_NI

An update to the user manual should come soon, in the meantime you can find the information here: How to create custom MIDI Templates with Kontrol S MK3

@Matthew_NI When can we expect the manual to be updated?

Matthew_NI

https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/comment/179044#Comment_179044

The Community Thread was available at launch - and we emailed it to all users, and advertised it as heavily as we could. It was also made available along with extensive additional documentation for the many months of beta, if you are a part of beta you would have had access to that as well.

Very few users read the PDF so figured we had a bit more time there - and it was better to update it once, once all things we're working on are shipped.

velanche

Hey @JeremyNI and @MatthewNI -

Thanks for the reply; I appreciate it.

Count me as a person who does rely on PDF documents as a low-vision user. As much as online documentation can be a pain, I would lean toward it if the info was current

And while there is a community thread on the subject, one has to scroll through post after post, thread after thread, in hopes of having their issues addressed. I'm used to the general expectation, in my experience that an official release of new features should be flanked by written documentation, in one place, in a singular document, even if it's an addendum.

I know there are plenty of people who have managed to use the MIDI features successfully, but for now I"m not one of them. I've tried a few times before giving up. Maybe I'll create a new thread on the community to get it sorted, but it'll be really nice once the official documentation, usually detailed and pretty much feature complete, is out there. I can appreciate that based on user feedback, the doc can get adjusted to incorporate those gotchas that one runs into.

Take my thoughts as you will, but I do hope to wrap my head around MIDI Templates, and my use cases, eventually.

thanks again.

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