Category: Midi Controllers
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NI Komplete Kontrol S 49/61/88 MK3 Template Editor Helper App
I’ve just uploaded a new version of my little helper app for editing Native Instruments Komplete Kontrol S series template files. kmtHelper_2025-04 This little app is primarily intended to make modify an existing template a little easier: This app is not intended to replace the very nice onboard editor. It only aims to augment it…
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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
This little helper app can do just a few things: Add, delete or swap a template image. Use characters in the template name, that aren’t available on the keyboard’s editor.
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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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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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Cubase MIDI Remote Templates for NI Maschine
Cubase MIDI Remote templates for several Native Instruments Maschine Controllers originally inspired and created by Jef Gibbons for a YouTube video in the spring of 2022.
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Novation Nocturn with Standalone PluginGuru Unify on Win10
The Novation Nocturn is one of quite a few discontinued midi controllers, that still work fine on my Windows 10 system (x64 version 20H2) – and it can be made to work just fine with the Unify standalone software. — I’ve created this post in response to a question by a fellow Unify user in…
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PluginGuru Unify with NI Komplete Kontrol Mk2
Unify is a very interesting software instrument (it can act as a host and as a plugin) developed by Shane Dunne in partnership with John “Skippy” Lehmkuhl (PluginGuru). One of the newer features (still labeled as “advanced and experimental”) makes it easier to configure a midi hardware controller’s knobs and buttons to remotely control the…
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Cubase Generic Remote doesn’t Accept Change
Recently I’ve been deep diving into midi hardware control in Cubase 10.5 on Windows 10 Pro (1809). This often meant having other applications open, like Midi OX and the Native Instruments Controller Editor – in addition to running things like LoopMidi in the the background. With all of that complexity, at times it seemed that…