Guidance please...

bufordosullivan
bufordosullivan Member Posts: 23 Member
in Komplete Kontrol

Hello! I'm a newbie, I guess. I want my S61N Mk3 to control plugins in Logic, as well as in KK. Are there any templates that I could/should use, or am I barking up the wrong tree? OR, is there any guidance on programming it myself? I don't use the DAW window, I mix with my mouse…

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  • bufordosullivan
    bufordosullivan Member Posts: 23 Member

    Hello all! A query: I love my new kks61, but its faders and knobs seem imperfectly constrained by Native Instruments - even Reaktor seems somewhat left out. I don't want the DAW controls to run the Logic mixer, I want them to control other functions like plugins and such. What are my options? Are there templates to use? Can I dig deep and program these things to work together?

  • BIF
    BIF Member Posts: 1,135 Guru

    Are you using Komplete Kontrol? And what version?

    It should work. Knobs and faders control things in the plugins and not in the mixer.

    How do you have the MK3 set up?

  • Vocalpoint
    Vocalpoint Member Posts: 3,688 Expert
    edited May 1

    Have to agree with @BIF

    Komplete Kontrol is designed to control NKS specific instruments and plugins exclusively.

    Some DAWs (like Logic, Studio One etc) also allow KK to assume transport control from the keyboard like Start, Stop, Record etc.

    But KK will not assume control of some stock Logic plugin or its mixer for example.

    VP

  • JesterMgee
    JesterMgee Member Posts: 3,223 Expert

    Not a logic user but KK is not a DAW controller, it offers some (basic) DAW control (transport and mixer) and NI have no real interest to extend this further.

    With Ableton Live it is possible to add further DAW control of devices, what is called "blue hand" control of a selected device, a compatible control surface (or in the case of KK, a user script device) can auto assign the first 8 parameters to the keyboard and with a little know how you can make it extend via 4 banks to 32 parameters. This is done by creating a second custom user script that works with the KK keyboard when you switch to MIDI mode.

    In Logic, no idea if that would be possible but the only real solution would be to use the MIDI mode of the keyboard and map those to things, just wouldn't be automated.

    Ideally the KK keyboard would incorporate a second layer MCU protocol that could allow it to talk to selected devices in the same way an MCU controller does, but wouldn't hold your breath for anything like that.

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