Category: Music-Making
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Komplete Kontrol S MK3 and the Cubase MIDI Remote with VST Instruments
Context (jump to download section) This post assumes the reader already knows Can we use a NI Komplete Kontrol S series keyboard kind of like a hardware synth with any VST Instrument in Cubase using the MIDI Remote? The quick answer is – not fully, but still useful for many scenarios, especially, if we find…
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Modifying Komplete Kontrol S MK3 Templates
Context I’ve recently bought a Komplete Kontrol S61 MK3 keyboard to replace my prior MK2. And to my delight, it doesn’t only introduce new features like polyphonic aftertouch, but it also has the touch strip in a much better place than the prior model. It’s the nicest synth touch keyboard I’ve ever had and there…
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NI Guitar Rig is now really great
Since recently getting Guitar Rig 7 Pro, it has become my new favourite software guitar amp and pedal board environment. In standalone mode, it’s a very fast way to quickly noodle around on my electric guitar and headphones. Much quicker to fire up and more flexible than my dual tube amplifiers with an elaborate pedal…
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Duplicating Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S MK2 MIDI Templates
As of this writing, the Komplete Kontrol software doesn’t feature a way of saving, loading, or even duplicating MIDI templates. However, for those of us brave crazy enough to manually edit JSON files, we can duplicate templates.
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Not just for DJs: Native Instruments vintage controllers as Cubase MIDI Remote
I’m using a vintage Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol X1 MIDI controller intended for DJs as one of my Cubase MIDI Remote controllers. This type of setup can also be done with quite a few other vintage DJ controllers by NI.
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Importing a Cubase .midiremote script with mismatching port names
A solution that worked for me to solve problems when importing Cubase .midiremote files with mismatching port names.
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Komplete Kontrol S series – Cubase MIDI Remote – VST Instruments
Context This post assumes the reader already knows Can we use a NI Komplete Kontrol S series keyboard kind of like a hardware synth with any VST Instrument in Cubase using the MIDI Remote? The quick answer is – not fully, but still useful for many scenarios, especially, if we find ourselves repeatedly editing the…
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Avoiding Cubase MIDI Remote Jitter with NI Komplete Kontrol S series MK2 or MK3
It’s a pretty widely reported issue, that using the Cubase MIDI Remote in bi-directional MIDI mode (send and receive) with endless encoders operating in absolute mode causes a problematic “jitter” effect. When recording it as VST Automation, it looks something like this: This isn’t easy to solve for all affected hardware controllers. But we can…
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Hardware MIDI Control Types
The variety of the available MIDI controllers (used and new) is too much to track unless someone has too much time and energy or money to pay people to do so. 🙂 And not all hardware controllers are implemented equally. Some can be configured in a lot of detail – others not so much. Some…
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AstroLab: Arturia’s Puzzling Beauty
Background and context I’ve always enjoyed trying out new hardware synthesizers. Quite a few hours at a local Long & McQuade music store here in Canada. Or when I was still travelling a lot for work, it was stores in other cities or even different countries. You know you’re a synth nerd when visiting synthesizer…
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The King is dead – long live the King!
This post is about the Access Virus TI synthesizer – possibly my all-time favourite hardware synthesizer. The premonition There was a 2017 blog post speculating about the (lack of a) future for the Access Virus TI at synthmorph.com (archive.org link)- partly, because the mastermind behind that legendary synthesizer, Christoph Kemper had reoriented his company into…
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Cubase MIDI Remote Motorized Fader Problem – My Fix
As of this writing, (Cubase 13.0.41) there’s still a major flaw when using motorized faders with the MIDI Remote. So I’ve created my own work-around, that involves temporarily muting the problematic MIDI message types via inserting a MIDI utility script between the hardware controller and Cubase.