Native instruments out here giving high quality software along with high quality tutorials! No need to go to any other UA-cam channel to learn this software. Wish all companies could do the same.
@@spartahill Hey Mr. Hill🤝, finding time to exlore,practice getting to know hard and software ( Ableton live,Prefrences and set ups to make a sound come out !!😤🤣) is the hardest. Mo. - Fr. full time job. But if not making music...listening to it..a lot !!👍🎸🎹🎶. Take care !✌
Glad to know I'm not the only one starting a late career in music even though I have been involved since the early 80s. Best of luck to you in your musical quest! Cheers!
Incredible session from Brian - please much more like this, use Brian for individual lessons on the Komplete instruments! Other NI presnters should note Brians calm style!
I came looking for copper and I found gold, please, continue with the how to use series, I´m looking forward for massive and reaktor lessons, 😈 big thanks Brian and NI. 😃
Thanks Brian! You are a NI genius and your tutorials are so concise and clear. Thanks for running us through this information, the sections on "how to set up" multi's, instruments, banks, and quick loads is going to be immeasurable helpful.
I'm running my first instance of the Kontakt 7 plugin in Logic. The interface looks very different from what Brian shows here. No "main control panel" at top left. I'm feeling my way and can kind of guess where things are, and the video is helpful for that, but I'm feeling a major case of Lost In Translation.
Brian, you are a great teacher. All the content of Kontact 7 perfectly and simply to the point. I have saved the video to refer back to again and again. Looking forward to the next tutorial.
This was brilliant. I was so intimidated by Kontakt 7; it's my first full Kontakt that I've bought, having only used the Kontakt Player before. I'm stunned by everything I've learned in just this hour - suddenly a new world of sound has opened! Things I had no idea Kontakt could do! Thank you so much, Brian! I'll be coming back to this frequently, until I get more accustomed to everything I can do.
I must have tried over a dozen tutorials, but every time I listened for a few minutes, the voice or the presentation was simply not helpful in retaining the information. Thank you for taking the time to present yours at a nice pace with the right tone of presentation while educating without ever being boring. I'm already looking for more content from you. Cheers.
Thank you for this clear and useful tutorial. I've used Kontakt over 2 years now. In one short video I've gone from being intimidated by all the functions of the header section to "oh, I get it" and looking forward to using more of the features. Cheers!
Nice tutorial! I have barely used Kontakt so far, but this makes manipulating so much easier. Instead of just poking around to see what I can do, which is my normal MO, I can actually move around with a bit more confidence and purpose. Thank you!
Brian, you are a GREAT teacher, nice quick, simple and to-the-point explanation, well prepared and very easy to follow and understand! I would love to see more tutorials made by you... Congrats!
Finally - A great instructional video for NI. Just loaded 7 and the improvements are awesome. Using this software?, the best in instruments, I advise watching the entire video.
Wow! What an extremely informative and inspiring quality video 😊 I have been using Kontakt for a long time, but there is so much to learn in this tutorial that I will need to watch it multiple times. Thank you so much! Best regards, Erik
Very good tutorial. I thought I know how to use it but I get very useful information especially the multi output routing for a single instrument, I did not even know this is possible.
Brian , I have been refusing to use so many great things that Kontakt ( In various forms ) has because I just didn't understand the higher levels of use, and I did try hard. This instruction vid must have taken lots of thought and I am very grateful for the work you guys put into it. There are so many vids, tripping over themselves, to explain how to land a spaceship in Kontakt ... you have made this flight engineer (read songwriter) so much more confident, I may be able to write a best seller LOL Very big thanks again
Thank you for making this video!!! Sorta new to Kontakt, but never really took advantage of what it truly offers. Being the visual learner that I am, this helped tremendously
Really Awesome tutorials! Looking foward to the next episode of this Kontakt 7 series, such as how to create our own instrument, instead of manipulating the existing licensed instrument library. Thanks!
wow!!! Such a great tutorial!!! I thank you so much for your wide and clear explanatin. It helped me a lot to understand the tool and to be confident to use it,
Brian, that is one of the best how-to-use videos I've seen. The new browser took me a minute to learn; I can't imagine not having it, especially with all the latest instruments available. My confusion was creating a multi-instrument. When loading the first instrument, the instrument header showed the snapshot view, and it didn't occur to me to click the Info button to set my multi-instrument outputs.
Oh my God thank you. I bought this last night and I just found out it’s manual contains around 300 pages! This video can be a good introduction though 👍🏻 Thanks NI
Why does my Contact 7 interface look different from yours? I don't have the control panel along the top . I don't have the ("gear" icon , "workspace" icon button,) Can someone please help me figure out why?
I'm trying to get back into music production and have Komplete Ultimate 12. I never took the time to understand Kontakt but watching this video has been so helpful. Look forward to creating some cool sounding multi's.
This was incredible! Thank you! I just recently bought Komplete Collectors Edition because I had a free version and I really liked the instruments I had and I wanted to get the other plugins like Ozone 10. I was having an issue when I got onto to play around with it, I had 2 different Kontakts in my folder I had Kontakt and Kontakt 7. When I loaded up Kontakt 7 I was only able to play the samples I didn't know how to navigate around but now I'm so excited to have found this video, it helped and made me feel dumb lol. Also I had no idea you could half of what was in this video, well worth the $900 I spent.
Kontakt 7 is amazing and this video is terrific as well. Such a clear explanation of so many different concepts. I love the Maschine videos too for the same reason! Wonderful teachers.
@@battledj2933 exactly and for many it will not please see my post above. make sure you and anyone who has this issue get them to fix said issues. Who cares how good it may be if the system that installs and runs it does not work as it should. Older versions work fine never had an issue until now.
@@vidworxsfx Indeed, in Komplete you open for example Playbox, on my komplete S49 keyboard screen the logo Kontakt 7 is showing, while Kontakt (6) is running in Komplete 😀 And Playbox is a Kontakt 7 instrument if i am not wrong 🤔 Native Access 2 is also... nevermind 😂
It will be hard to troubleshoot your issues in the comments section of UA-cam, Please reach out to our Kontakt support team so we can have a closer look. You can contact us through the form over here 👉 bit.ly/n1konta
@@NativeInstruments I did and heard zero till today. Note: its not just my issues its issues that span back months and a lot of others have had the exact same issues. That should tell you there are problems that must be fixed on your end as they still exist in 3.0.1 as well.
I just bought Konkakt 7, but when I go native access, it says (open) instead of install. I want to run it through my DAW and not as a standalone. Any ideas, please?
Hi there. Great lesson. I appreciate that you made it and I will return to this video to lock in my understanding of the updates to Kontakt. I love the new library layout and it's features but I kept instinctively wanting the old library layout back for the workflow I got used to over the years. It's great that I can switch between the two layouts as I ween myself off the old layout and get onto the new one.
If you're running the current version, 7.10.5, alot of what is shown here doesn't exist or doesn't work. Please be aware of this. Took me hours to get things figured out for it to work with my DAW, Cakewalk.
These tutorials are very helpful, thank you! I was hoping you'd touch on customising NI and non-NI device midi knobs, sliders and buttons to connect to instrument controls, and saving those MIDI settings for easy re-use or even default use with specific instruments/banks/multis.
After buying and installing kontakt 7 via native acess, It keeps giving me and opening the free version... Could anyone help me because i dont know what to do and there are no tutorials for this problem.
Nice, thank you! Is it possible to replace a loaded Kontakt instrument by double clicking another instrument in the browser? As it is right now, the browser is useful for stacking instruments only and not for loading and trying different ones.
If you select the icon to the right of the workspaces icon, once you load an instrument it gives you minimized view. You can go back to the browser and load another single instrument (no layering). If the minimized view is still selected and you've pinned the browser (pin icon to the right of favorites), you can load different instruments & presets and staying in the browser
Hi thank you for this tutorial. One question: I'm at the min 33 of your video but I have a big problem: when I try to insert multiple libraries/ instruemnts in the rack space it loaded only one at time , for example I load a piano, after I click to a orchestral preset and it throws away the piano and give me only the orchestra. Only one in the rack space... why? Can you please help me? Do you have any idea of what's is going on in my Knontact 7 ? Thank you so much!
Brian, this is an excellent video. Thank you! At 16:57 you show how clicking on the preset names will audition the sound. This works for most, but not all of the libraries. Some libraries have no preview (audition) available. Why is this, and is there a way to solve the issue? (Mac mini M2, Mac OS 13.4.1, Kontakt 7.5.2). Thanks!
Just returning to Synths and music after a 15 year break due to inadequate synth power and computer processing limits that don't exist today. Cheers NI.
Excellent tutorial. No BS, straight to the point, no ads!!!! Thank you. 💜
Native instruments out here giving high quality software along with high quality tutorials! No need to go to any other UA-cam channel to learn this software. Wish all companies could do the same.
Thanx a lot Brian....!! I`m 57 years old , still trying and learning to make "music" 🤭..greeting s from Germany . Very good job !!🤙
It's good to know that others like me (56 years old here) continue to expand their knowledge, specifically music, in this regard.
Cheers!
@@spartahill Hey Mr. Hill🤝, finding time to exlore,practice getting to know hard and software ( Ableton live,Prefrences and set ups to make a sound come out !!😤🤣) is the hardest. Mo. - Fr. full time job. But if not making music...listening to it..a lot !!👍🎸🎹🎶. Take care !✌
Glad to know I'm not the only one starting a late career in music even though I have been involved since the early 80s. Best of luck to you in your musical quest! Cheers!
lol lars youre so cute
Great tutorial. Very focused, no wasted time, great audio, well scripted, no bs, just good solid working information on a complex app. Well done man.
🫡 🫡 🫡
@@NativeInstruments no microtuning in K7?
Hello i buy Kontakt 7 I don’t see all my library somebody can help me please
Incredible session from Brian - please much more like this, use Brian for individual lessons on the Komplete instruments! Other NI presnters should note Brians calm style!
This is easy to follow teaching along with a clearly visible screen. Thank you.
I came looking for copper and I found gold, please, continue with the how to use series, I´m looking forward for massive and reaktor lessons, 😈 big thanks Brian and NI. 😃
Thanks Brian! You are a NI genius and your tutorials are so concise and clear. Thanks for running us through this information, the sections on "how to set up" multi's, instruments, banks, and quick loads is going to be immeasurable helpful.
Well said.This clarity is what everyone should be aiming for.
I'm 56 and learning to play Piano and Synth, Looking forward to diving into this. a very smart purchase....😁
I'm running my first instance of the Kontakt 7 plugin in Logic. The interface looks very different from what Brian shows here. No "main control panel" at top left. I'm feeling my way and can kind of guess where things are, and the video is helpful for that, but I'm feeling a major case of Lost In Translation.
Brian, you are a great teacher. All the content of Kontact 7 perfectly and simply to the point. I have saved the video to refer back to again and again.
Looking forward to the next tutorial.
This was brilliant. I was so intimidated by Kontakt 7; it's my first full Kontakt that I've bought, having only used the Kontakt Player before. I'm stunned by everything I've learned in just this hour - suddenly a new world of sound has opened! Things I had no idea Kontakt could do! Thank you so much, Brian! I'll be coming back to this frequently, until I get more accustomed to everything I can do.
very well explained, bravo...…. your tonality and expression very effective, you should come out with more tutorials
Very clear and through explandation of Kontakt, thanks so much
I must have tried over a dozen tutorials, but every time I listened for a few minutes, the voice or the presentation was simply not helpful in retaining the information.
Thank you for taking the time to present yours at a nice pace with the right tone of presentation while educating without ever being boring. I'm already looking for more content from you. Cheers.
Thank you for this clear and useful tutorial. I've used Kontakt over 2 years now. In one short video I've gone from being intimidated by all the functions of the header section to "oh, I get it" and looking forward to using more of the features. Cheers!
Glad to hear our tutorial helps. 😇
Nice tutorial! I have barely used Kontakt so far, but this makes manipulating so much easier. Instead of just poking around to see what I can do, which is my normal MO, I can actually move around with a bit more confidence and purpose. Thank you!
Thanks a lot, Brian.🤞 Everything is understandable. An Oscar should be given to you for such a video.👍👏👏
Brian, you are a GREAT teacher, nice quick, simple and to-the-point explanation, well prepared and very easy to follow and understand! I would love to see more tutorials made by you... Congrats!
Finally - A great instructional video for NI. Just loaded 7 and the improvements are awesome. Using this software?, the best in instruments, I advise watching the entire video.
Every company should make videos like these
Wow, just starting out in Kontakt - I learned so much by this video! Will watch it again as it covers a lot of practical ground. Very well taught!
Learnt a lot from this tutorial. Thank you Brian.
If you listened for 1 minute to each of the 85,000 presets, it would take 2 months non-stop to hear them all.
My next live stream
If it took you an entire minute to decide if you like a sound then you probably shouldn't be creating music lol
cool answer@@SpicyViolinist
Each preset is only 3 seconds long. What do you do with the remaining 57 seconds? 😅😵💫
For the oh-so-clever replies, my point here is "Option paralysis".
DUDE thanks!!!!! You took me to school on Kontakt!! Thank you for making it simple!
Wow! What an extremely informative and inspiring quality video 😊 I have been using Kontakt for a long time, but there is so much to learn in this tutorial that I will need to watch it multiple times. Thank you so much!
Best regards, Erik
Very good tutorial. I thought I know how to use it but I get very useful information especially the multi output routing for a single instrument, I did not even know this is possible.
Brian ,
I have been refusing to use so many great things that Kontakt ( In various forms ) has because I just didn't understand the higher levels of use, and I did try hard.
This instruction vid must have taken lots of thought and I am very grateful for the work you guys put into it.
There are so many vids, tripping over themselves, to explain how to land a spaceship in Kontakt ... you have made this flight engineer (read songwriter) so much more confident, I may be able to write a best seller LOL
Very big thanks again
Thank you for making this video!!! Sorta new to Kontakt, but never really took advantage of what it truly offers. Being the visual learner that I am, this helped tremendously
Really Awesome tutorials! Looking foward to the next episode of this Kontakt 7 series, such as how to create our own instrument, instead of manipulating the existing licensed instrument library. Thanks!
This is the video I was waiting for all my life (well my NI Life, means since 2015). Thanks a lot.
What a great tutorial, clear, calm and concise. Good job NI and Brian!
This is a FANTASTIC tutorial Brian, thank you so much for putting it together. You made the process so easy and I learned so much!
Thank you Brian, you cleared up so much for me!
Great video Brian. I'm using Kontakt 7 from first time and I learn a lot with this video. Thanks
Thank you Brian, you're a brilliant teacher! :)
Tha Best Kontakt tutorial I've seen so far...
Excellent tutorial. Polished. Direct. Thanks!
Wonderful teacher. Thank you for the clear explanations. Your voice is very soothing☺️
wow!!! Such a great tutorial!!! I thank you so much for your wide and clear explanatin. It helped me a lot to understand the tool and to be confident to use it,
Thank you, Brian. Excellent tutorial -- I learned a lot.
Great vid, thanks. Brian your are a great instructor and communicator.
kontakt 7 is really a step forward. great job NI
Brian definitely did a phenomenal job instructing! Made an hour of learning feel like a breeze! Keep up the great work! #ThatsMyWord
Great overview - really took a lot of mystery out of the functionality!
Brian, that is one of the best how-to-use videos I've seen. The new browser took me a minute to learn; I can't imagine not having it, especially with all the latest instruments available. My confusion was creating a multi-instrument. When loading the first instrument, the instrument header showed the snapshot view, and it didn't occur to me to click the Info button to set my multi-instrument outputs.
Best explenation of Kontakt on youtube, thanks and God Bless.
after several days of contemplating, I finally bought and downloaded Kontakt 7 :)
First impressions? 🧐
@@NativeInstruments I wish I knew this when I started Sibelius and Logic Pro a decade ago :)
It's never too late to get into Kontakt. 💛 Have fun!
Love Native instruments. This tutoria has Shown what I actually needed. Very nice!!
Thank you for making it free, now I can make my own music for my YT videos
Very professional and humble tutorial. Thank you Brian.
Oh my God thank you. I bought this last night and I just found out it’s manual contains around 300 pages! This video can be a good introduction though 👍🏻
Thanks NI
I just bought Kontakt. Thank you so much!
Thanks Brian. You're a great tutor.
Thank you so much. I have seen keyboardist using Native Instrument during gigs. I wanted to do the same with the standalone and select favorites.
Why does my Contact 7 interface look different from yours? I don't have the control panel along the top . I don't have the ("gear" icon , "workspace" icon button,) Can someone please help me figure out why?
Same problem, I just figured out that kontakt updated all their interface with the 7.7 update
I'm trying to get back into music production and have Komplete Ultimate 12. I never took the time to understand Kontakt but watching this video has been so helpful. Look forward to creating some cool sounding multi's.
Welcome back 😎
avoid getting the bundles
So detailed...thank you! I finally know my way around Kontakt after all of these many years! Thank you for putting this together for us!
This was incredible! Thank you! I just recently bought Komplete Collectors Edition because I had a free version and I really liked the instruments I had and I wanted to get the other plugins like Ozone 10. I was having an issue when I got onto to play around with it, I had 2 different Kontakts in my folder I had Kontakt and Kontakt 7. When I loaded up Kontakt 7 I was only able to play the samples I didn't know how to navigate around but now I'm so excited to have found this video, it helped and made me feel dumb lol. Also I had no idea you could half of what was in this video, well worth the $900 I spent.
Thanks Brian, I'm so encouraged! Great Job. Thanks for being so detailed in each section. Looking forward to more uploads.
Kontakt 7 is amazing and this video is terrific as well. Such a clear explanation of so many different concepts. I love the Maschine videos too for the same reason! Wonderful teachers.
Sure if it's works, standalone 7 won't start, but VST is working fine 🙂
@@battledj2933 exactly and for many it will not please see my post above. make sure you and anyone who has this issue get them to fix said issues. Who cares how good it may be if the system that installs and runs it does not work as it should. Older versions work fine never had an issue until now.
@@vidworxsfx Indeed, in Komplete you open for example Playbox, on my komplete S49 keyboard screen the logo Kontakt 7 is showing, while Kontakt (6) is running in Komplete 😀 And Playbox is a Kontakt 7 instrument if i am not wrong 🤔 Native Access 2 is also... nevermind 😂
It will be hard to troubleshoot your issues in the comments section of UA-cam,
Please reach out to our Kontakt support team so we can have a closer look.
You can contact us through the form over here 👉 bit.ly/n1konta
@@NativeInstruments I did and heard zero till today. Note: its not just my issues its issues that span back months and a lot of others have had the exact same issues. That should tell you there are problems that must be fixed on your end as they still exist in 3.0.1 as well.
I just bought Konkakt 7, but when I go native access, it says (open) instead of install. I want to run it through my DAW and not as a standalone. Any ideas, please?
You'll want to see the links below the video for the instructions to use in your own DAW.
At last..a great intro to kontakt for a newbee user…thanks!
really great, very precise and clear explanation on a program that is gorgeous.
time to make more 😁
Well done. Easy to understand tutorial. Thank you NI!
Great tutorial! Cover I think everything essential about Kontakt for user-level usage. Thank you very much Brian!
it has open up a new world for me, many thanks
the best question is how did you get the audio out of kontakt into a streaming software! i have given up after 4 hours!!!!!!
watched it completely. super clear explanation.
this was great, definitely want to come back to it and follow along!👍🏿
Wow! I had no idea what a powerful tool Kontakt 7 is. Great tutorial.
Excellent tutorial!
Excellent video. Thanks Brian and NI :)
THIS . . is how tutorials should be made. Organized / to the point / does exactly what the title says.
Agreed. Especially if you enjoy talking heads and repetition.
Hi, Is it possible to somehow switch the presets in the library using some buttons in a regular midi keyboard, not with the mouse? Help please.
Hi there. Great lesson. I appreciate that you made it and I will return to this video to lock in my understanding of the updates to Kontakt. I love the new library layout and it's features but I kept instinctively wanting the old library layout back for the workflow I got used to over the years. It's great that I can switch between the two layouts as I ween myself off the old layout and get onto the new one.
Super useful and well explained. Thanks a lot!
Wrench icon and Edit Mode functionality missing in Kontakt 7 rack by all instruments.
Where is it?
I’m brand new to NI. Super useful ! Thanks.
Wow, best kontakt tutorial ever, thanks
Fantastic tutorial. Can't wait to try it.
If you're running the current version, 7.10.5, alot of what is shown here doesn't exist or doesn't work. Please be aware of this. Took me hours to get things figured out for it to work with my DAW, Cakewalk.
Amazing class, thank you very much.
These tutorials are very helpful, thank you! I was hoping you'd touch on customising NI and non-NI device midi knobs, sliders and buttons to connect to instrument controls, and saving those MIDI settings for easy re-use or even default use with specific instruments/banks/multis.
Just updated to Kontakt 7. Great sale.THANKS NI
After buying and installing kontakt 7 via native acess, It keeps giving me and opening the free version... Could anyone help me because i dont know what to do and there are no tutorials for this problem.
Hugely helpful for this Kontakt newb. Thanks!
Very very helpfull tutorial. Thanks so much!
Great detailed introduction to get started with Kontakt 7. Looking fwd to next level!
Awesome stuff! I had no idea it could do so much
48:36 accidental among us. Very nice tutorial :)
Fantastic presentation.
Nice, thank you! Is it possible to replace a loaded Kontakt instrument by double clicking another instrument in the browser? As it is right now, the browser is useful for stacking instruments only and not for loading and trying different ones.
If you select the icon to the right of the workspaces icon, once you load an instrument it gives you minimized view. You can go back to the browser and load another single instrument (no layering). If the minimized view is still selected and you've pinned the browser (pin icon to the right of favorites), you can load different instruments & presets and staying in the browser
@@briankullas_NI You just made my day brother! Thank you 🙏
Hi thank you for this tutorial. One question: I'm at the min 33 of your video but I have a big problem: when I try to insert multiple libraries/ instruemnts in the rack space it loaded only one at time , for example I load a piano, after I click to a orchestral preset and it throws away the piano and give me only the orchestra. Only one in the rack space... why? Can you please help me? Do you have any idea of what's is going on in my Knontact 7 ? Thank you so much!
Thx Brain, great video to understand Kontakt
Going to have to watch this all the way through. For some reason, my Keylab can't do midi learn with Kontakt 7
Brian you're sooooooo GOOD!
Brian, this is an excellent video. Thank you! At 16:57 you show how clicking on the preset names will audition the sound. This works for most, but not all of the libraries. Some libraries have no preview (audition) available. Why is this, and is there a way to solve the issue? (Mac mini M2, Mac OS 13.4.1, Kontakt 7.5.2). Thanks!
Thank you -- this was very helpful!
Super helpful, thanks dude!
Just returning to Synths and music after a 15 year break due to inadequate synth power and computer processing limits that don't exist today. Cheers NI.