Hi, I’m a little confused, as far as I know the NI KK plugin is not accessible unless one buy or own a KK Keyboard controller, that is you have to buy a separate master keyboard to have access to the plugin. If the plugin is not compatible with VoiceOver, and one need to buy an extra dedicated expensive master controller you otherwise would not buy, I would not call it an accessible solution….
Also, I have not found the NI installers to be accessible. Of course, I have not tried all of them, but it was hard to navigate and focus VoiceOver in the main installer from NI. I really hope I’m wrong though…. Best, John André On 03 Mar 2019, at 16:34, Steve Matzura <[email protected]> wrote: 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 [email protected] 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 > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
