Studio One and KK MK3 MIDI Mode Integration

Ongey

Hi folks, I'm trying to setup MIDI templates from my Komplete Kontrol S61 MK3 keyboard to control instruments in Studio One. 'Kind of' successful, but it feels pretty quirky. As it stands, it doesn't appear that MIDI CC events from the knobs and buttons are sent to Studio One. Instead, you have to use Studio One's Control Link to map the knob (which is detected in Studio One) to the control (see screenshot). For example, I have a knob 1 controlling MIDI CC14 on Channel 1, and an instrument that responds to that CC/Channel - but nothing happens.

The strange thing is that if I change the KK setup for that knob to transmit on MIDI channel 2, then the instrument DOES respond - even though it's set to only detect CC14 on channel 1!

My theory is that KK reserves channel 1 for sending specific knob/button info as control surface info (e.g. for communicating with Kontakt instruments) - although the mod wheel and touch strip really do just send MIDI CC's 1 and 11 that can be detected - maybe they are, along with the keyboard, working in 'keyboard' mode (if you've setup KK in S1, you'll know it has two configurations for keyboard and controller).

Of course, sometimes this behaviour is preferably - if I want one of the buttons to be sent as 'controller' data to map to an S1 command.

Any enlightenment on this area would be must useful, thanks!

Screenshot 1: Knob1 transmitting MIDI CC14 channel 1 received as control 'Knob 1'.
Screenshot 2: Knob2 transmitting MIDI CC15 channel 2 received as MIDI CC 15 (the [1] might be the channel received, and indeed that is detected).