Kontrol 2024 outlook: what was, what now, what next?

I’ve been using Kontakt and MK3 in Sonoma but haven’t experienced any major issues. What is the current issue Matthew?

[EDIT] Sorry, ignore this thread, everything is working fine today, not sure what I did wrong yesterday

Apologies for my earlier rant.

A question I’ve just asked on Arturia forum is below. Is what I’m asking down to Arturia or is it a current limitation on what they can do with nks?

Thanks

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Hi, my keyboard setup is as follows.

Native Instruments mk3 S88 and Arturia mk2 Keylab 61.

In Komplete Kontrol the S88 knobs control various parameters.

Also in Komplete Kontrol I can sign an external controller to the 8 knobs (and for some buttons).

The relevant bits from Komplete Kontrol manual are

The way this works is, I simply assign the first 8 knobs on my Keylab to the 8 knobs in Komplete Kontrol. Now they happily control the same parameters as the S88, knob 1 on the Keylab controls exactly the same thing as knob 1 on the S88 etc. What’s more, it doesn’t matter what cc the 8 knobs on the Keylab were set at before assigning them, the S88 still also controls the 8 knobs, hence must have done something in s/w to allow this.

I can load any NI instrument and whatever the 8 knobs control on the S88, the first 8 knobs on my Keylab control the same. Even if on the S88 it shows there’s 3 pages of knobs, I go to page 2, whatever those knobs now control on my S88, my Arturia Keylab knobs also controls them. Which is very very very handy.

So, I only need to assign those knobs to my Arturia Keylab once, then next time I launch Komplete Kontrol, it remembers, and it doesn’t matter which NI instrument I load, or what page of parameters I go to on the S88, the first 8 knobs on my Keylab control exactly the same parameters as the 8 knobs on the S88.

However, when I load Arturia V synths into Komplete Kontrol, while the S88 happily controls them, they are not assigned in the same way as NI’s own instruments. 

For example I load in a v instrument with 3 pages of parameters on the S88, on the first page, only 2 of my Keylabs knobs control the same thing as two of the knobs on the S88, and not in the same place (made up example not near keyboards, say knob 2 on the S88 controls cutoff, knob 7 does on my Arturia.)

I then select page 2 or 3 and none of the Keylab knobs control anything, using my previous example, knob 7 no longer controls what knob 2 controls on the s88.

So NI seem to have coded their 8 knobs to always use the same 8 knobs that I can assign to an external controller in Komplete Kontrol, and whatever page of knobs I’m on, they still work flawlessly on my Keylab, but Arturia appears to use a different method where not only do they not use the same 8 knob’s assignable in Komplete Kontrol, but a knob that happens to work on one page doesn’t work on the other pages.

Sure I can use Analog Lab, but as you’ve made the very nice effort of making your v synths NKS compatible so we can use them in Komplete Kontrol, it would be nice to be able to control them from within it as easily as we can with NI’s own instruments.

Thanks

I’m a member of the KK Beta group. Will the beta be available there before release?