KK's level of native access (no pun intended) is definitely open to
debate. While many things can be done with it "out of the box" so to
speak, some cannot without the aid of the third-party programs Keyboard
Maestro and Chi Kim's VOCR. Basic installation and setup is accessible
without them, but once that's done, you'll definitely want these tools
to perform customizations to your rig.
Regarding adding Komplete Kontrol to a track, it's an instrument
according to Pro Tools, so you will create an instrument track and add
it in the usual way. From there, you will use the KK keyboard itself to
accessibly choose and edit sounds from your Kontakt library, as the KK
plugin hosts other instrument plugins for you. The way this is done is
through the use of files that contain data adhering to the Native
Kontrol Standard (NKS) format
(https://www.native-instruments.com/en/specials/komplete/this-is-nks/).
Many manufacturers, including Arturia, Waves, Impact Soundworks, and
Orange Tree Samples, just to name a few, offer these files as a standard
part of some of their products, making them accessible to visually
impaired users as never before. Many other manufacturers, Korg and
Spectrasonics for example, have products for which an enterprising
gentleman from an outfit called Freelance Sound Labs has made NKS files
available at extremely reasonable prices (on the order of ten dollars US
per package on average). Visit http://www.freelancesoundlabs.com to see
what he has on offer that may interest you.
And that's just the beginning. Any Kontakt library you own that is not
NKS-capable can still be loaded into the KK plugin via the keyboard
controller by adding it to your local Komplete Kontrol database of known
sample libraries via the Komplete Kontrol standalone application, for
which you'll definitely need both Keyboard Maestro and VOCR (unless you
have useful vision, of course).
There's an email list and WhatsApp voice chat group for visually
impaired user support of all aspects of KK. Send a blank email message
to komplete-kontrol-access+subscr...@googlegroups.com to get onto the
email list. Send me (or probably half a dozen others on this list) your
mobile phone number to be added to the WhatsApp voice chat if interested.
Hope this helps, and of course I hope you get into Komplete Kontrol and
enjoy using it as much as we who own it do.
On 3/3/2019 12:27 AM, Steve Sparrow wrote:
Hi guys. I’m very seriously thinking about purchasing complete control. I know
there has been a lot of talk about this on the list, but i’ve not really taken
a lot of notice of exactly how things are done. How easy is this to run, can
someone give me a brief idea of what the process is for using it. Do you just
insert it over an instrument track as you would with X band? i assume theres
more to it than that. How accessible is it.
Steve
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