For the S series MK3: A small Helper App for modifying .kmt template files
Encouraged by the product team's post, I've recently built a very small helper app (browser based), to give a simple front-end to things that I used to do via editing the .kmt files by hand.
Update 2025-04-10:
Created a new version of the app:
It can:
- Add or change the image file for a template
- Create/change template names with (optionally) special characters not found in the onboard editor
- Create/change the labels for knobs and buttons with (optionally) special characters not found in the onboard editor (new)
- Copy selected sections from another template file (.kmt) into the template file being edited. This can be handy for cases where you like some settings from a template made by someone else, but you want your own pedal settings, keyboard splits, etc.
- Keyzones, Buttons & Knob settings (pages), Pedals, Touchstrip, Wheels
I've also kept and added a couple of things that can also fully be edited in the onboard editor, simply because they were easy to code.
- change the default LED color for the template — since the recent firmware update, that can now be done with the onboard editor, too.
- change the MIDI output settings — since the recent firmware update, that can now be done with the onboard editor, too.
- Change the button LED colors (new) — can also be done in the onboard editor
- Change the display mode for Knobs (new) — can also be done in the onboard editor
It looks quite different than the first version. I pretty much re-wrote the whole thing to be able to handle up to 16 kmt template pages worth of buttons and knobs labels a bit better than the original code and user interface could. But it's still just regular HTML, JavaScript and CSS and should hopefully work in any modern mainstream browser.
To download the code for running locally in your browser and/or for modifying the code, click here:
I'll continue to monitor this thread for questions, issues or comments.
—Update 2025-03-20: Added a field for the MIDI output preference in support of the firmware upgrade released in March 2025. —ORIGINAL POST, when I first made the app:
This little kmtHelper app can do just a few things
- Add, delete or swap a template image.
- Use characters in the template name, that aren’t available on the keyboard’s editor.
- Pick an LED colour for the wheels, touchstrip, 4D knob, (this also becomes the KeyZones default color for that template). (NOTE: Since the Match 2025 firmware, this can also be done via the onboard editor).
- Pick the MIDI Output preference (Added in support of the March 2025 firmware update. This can also be edited via the onboard editor).
And it can also copy one or more sections from another template file:
- Keyzones
- Buttons & Knobs (pages)
- Pedals
- TouchStrip
- Wheels
Copying such sections makes it a bit easier to merge a template that another user shared into my own environment.
Maybe I like their knob and button configuration, but
- have a different Pedal configuration, or
- prefer different Keyzones, or
- simply prefer different colors
So just in case, someone else might find this useful here's the link to my introductory blog post,
and here's the direct link to the small helper app itself:
The user interface uses a step by step metaphor, in the hope to make it as easy to understand and use as possible.
Technical info: It's simple HTML, CSS, JavaScript - runs entirely in the local browser - so nothing gets uploaded to a server.
I've also tried to make the code somewhat understandable, so it's more verbose than elegant. And it's also available for download (and potential further editing), and it hopefully fully works in a local browser context, so should also be usable off-line:
Simply put the kmtHelper folder somewhere and open index.html in a modern browser with JavaScript enabled.
Any questions, bugs or other feedback, I'll try to monitor this thread.
Comments
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This is really cool!
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This does look cool. I need to find out how to get my template copied off the keyboard and onto my PC!
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You'll need to install the "Hardware Connection Service" via Native Access.
And once that is working ok - when the MK3 keyboard is connected to the PC, go to the EDIT mode on the keyboard (hold Shift button and press Browser button).
That should give you Import and Export options - i.e. Export and Import are both initiated from the Keyboard.
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When pressing the Export button, a window to select a target folder will open - this Window has the title"Select the location to save the templates"
NOTE: You may have to hunt for that window, because it may not always pop to the foreground.
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When pressing the Import button, a small dialog window will appear on the PC, and you can drag and drop the template files from your PC to that window.
NOTE: You may have to hunt for that window, because it may not always pop to the foreground.
After one or more template files have been added to that window, press the "Send Templates & Close", and then the imported template(s) should be available on the keyboard.
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Hey @nico5 and anyone who is interested:
Used this recently and works a treat! Makes the image import process much easier.
Here is an free online image editing site I used to get the correct pixel values (for those of us that have no clue what to do in photoshop):
Take Care
Patt.
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Doesn't work here - i.e. I don't get any window opening up when I select to Export a MIDI template. I tried re-installing/updating but no luck.
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Needed a hard re-boot. Seems to be okay now.
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Glad you got it working!
p.s. It's amazing that even in 2025 a hard reboot is still the answer to so many problems! 😆
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This is truly an amazing software!!!
And I would be very grateful if you could make the software that can edit NKS2.1 -
Thank you!
From what I've investigated, NKS2 seems to be a very different thing.
It's not one or more separate files, but an API that has to be implemented in the C++ code for each plugin or the KSP (Kontakt scripting language) for each Kontakt Library - and that can only be done by the makers of plugins and libraries.
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Yes, it's one of those things the Linux folk used to laugh about - but these days even Linux updates need a good ol' reboot.
Thanks for the tool though - it's very useful. I now have a bespoke background to my templates!
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Yes, it's one of those things the Linux folk used to laugh about - but these days even Linux updates need a good ol' reboot.
haha - yes indeed. If it has a processor, there's a good chance that a reboot fixes some things. And with modern cables increasingly having processors. we may even find ourselves unplugging and re-plugging cables as a fix.
Thanks for the tool though - it's very useful. I now have a bespoke background to my templates!
Thanks for leaving your kind note here. Since I'm sick and tired of privacy violating telemetry abuse by too many big players, there's zero telemetry in my little tool. So a comment like yours is the only way, that I can find out, if anyone is even trying the tool.
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Wow that's awesome 😎 👍
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This is awesome - been playing with it for 1/2 hour - already created 5 TEMPLATES on the fly
Mac user so no hard reboot needed😎1
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