Native Instruments Brian Kullas on the company:: Brian Coolis is the global product specialist lead for Native Instruments. Theres a handful of companies now that all fall under the Native Instruments brand. Some of the biggest music tech heavy hitters now, all under one umbrella. So definitely a very exciting time.
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A Little About the Keyboard in Pro Tools and Bitwig:: Todays workshop is to introduce you to what you have at your disposal in the writing rooms, specifically the keyboard. Theres a lot of stuff that the keyboard can do to really help speed up your writing process. And if theres anything that you need clarification on as Im speaking, just feel free, raise your hand.
Komplete Control for Instruments & Sound Devices:: All of our keyboards integrate with pretty much all the major Jaws, Ableton, Logic, Cubase, Pro Tools. FL Studio is actually coming for the new keyboard. Complete Control is a plugin that ties all of your instruments, your effects loops, one shots all together. There are almost 61,000 presets to choose from.
Complete Control:: Complete Control lets you customize your music from the keyboard. There are 45 pages worth of parameters to customize. This gives you the opportunity to kind of do some basic sound design. It lets you focus on finding sounds, customizing them.
Pro Tools:: Any preset that Ive favorited across every instrument, theyll all show up here. You can always save everything that any preset that youve tweaked. Now you can always access it again directly from the keyboard. Its kind of this universal system that can be accessed from anywhere.
Botherion Drum Kits:: We have these things called expansions, which are essentially just sample packs. Previously these were only available in the machine software. Now anyone, regardless if you have machine or not, you can actually use these sample packs inside of battery.
Battery Drum Kit vs. Complete Control:: I would basically just build it in battery and just use battery as the sequencer There's tons of stuff at your disposal inside of Complete Control. We definitely want to add more functionality
Analog Dreams:: Analog Dreams lets you create effects chains. Theres isotopes, vinyl chorus effect and then molecular. Changing the order of the effects is going to change how the sound sounds overall.
Midi Keyboard:: The color keys indicate different instruments. Depending on what instrument you have loaded, the light guide is actually going to give you visual feedback based on, again, what youre using. Do some orchestral DA DA string Ensemble.
Complete Control 2:: There are ways to utilize non supported instruments inside of complete control and also on your keyboard. By default, complete control will just auto map all of the parameters for you. My best advice is just create one global mapping inside of serum.
Daw 2.8:: The keyboard is mapped to a lot of the key parameters you would want to adjust or have access to inside of your dog transport functions. quantize, undo, redo, being able to record and launch different things. Once you configure kind of the whole integration process, you basically have access.
For Ableton, Automation is Key:: The auto button basically just enables disables automation inside of Ableton. It does a lot more than just be a generic keyboard. Even just having the mixer functionality, it really just limits how much you have to be at your laptop, your computer, doing a lot of tweaking.
Viola Effect Chains in Complete Control 3.0:: You can still do that with instruments and effects chains, like a whole rack. However, with the instrument and the effect together, you cant save that as one thing. What is the MPE compatibility on that? Are you guys moving into that?
Immortal Keyboard: Complete Control (Mark 3:: The Mark Three version of the keyboard has direct integration with Contact. You do not need Complete Control to use any of your Contact instruments. And it supports polyphonic after touch as well. Well actually have that for FL Studio for the first time.
Polyphonic Aftertouch:: A lot of keyboards have after touch. With polyphonic aftertouch, you can apply a pressure to individual keys and just that note is going to basically utilize the aftertouch expression. The biggest improvement is that it integrates directly with most orchestral libraries.
Interactive Sound Devices: Contact 7:: You basically layer, know, three different contact libraries all simultaneously. It really lets you create some unique instruments, different textures. Its limitless possibilities when youre in the browser on Complete Control.
Contact 2:: Dont limit yourself just to one instrument. Get creative. Just layer stuff together. Limit your tools. I definitely have a problem of trying to collect as many plugins as possible. It can definitely get very overwhelming figuring out where to start.
How to fully install Native Instruments 14 in 2 Minutes!:: Keep track and organize your plugins and your sound libraries and all of that. In Complete 14, theres a lot of tons of instruments effects. Can you install directly external hard drives?
Native Instruments Account Creation:: Once you get the email with the Google form, it basically just says, hey, do you have a Native Instruments account? No. If you do enter the email you used, hit submit. Feel free to send out my email if anyone has any questions or issues.

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