Kontakt 101

Beginner's Guide

31 Videos
1h 53m
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Native Instruments' Kontakt is a powerful engine for creating and playing sampled instruments. Join NI expert Matt Vanacoro in this course, and learn to harness the industry-standard sampler: NI Kontakt 6!

Matt Vanacoro

Matt Vanacoro is an A-List New York City based performer, composer and educator with deep experience in all aspects of production, synthesis, electronic keyboards and music technology...

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Overview

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More than just a sampler, NI Kontakt includes over 43 GB of meticulously recorded samples and lots of features hidden under the hood. In this course, you learn to bring life into your music with this cutting-edge programmable sampling environment.

After giving an overview of the different uses of Kontakt, Matt explains how to best manage its sample libraries and presets. You learn about snapshots, third-party instruments, NKI files and you discover what an unwrapped library is. Matt explores the often overlooked Factory Library, the Play Series instruments and Kontakt's Retro Machines Mk 2. And then you dive deeper and learn mode advanced Kontakt concepts: instrument multis, layering, creating splits, keyswitches, sampling your own sounds, Auto Mapping, adding effects, and a lot more...

So sit back and learn to get "kreative" with Native Instruments Kontakt in this course by trainer and Kontakt expert Matt Vanacoro!

Outline

Section 1: Section 1: Setup

Section 2: Section 2: Working With Instruments

Section 3: Section 3: Sounds and Multis

Section 4: Section 4: Moving Forward

Section 5: Section 5: Sampling and Beyond

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Reviews

Anon wrote on June 12, 2023

Loved it. Learned so much. Thank you
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Robert wrote on July 1, 2022

This course is well-designed. It assumes no prior knowledge of the subject, but is mature and straightforward in its presentation of sometimes complex material. I found it easy to absorb the explanations and to put into practice what I had learned.
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Frank wrote on April 17, 2022

This was a well laid out, well narrated course. It just scratches the surface, but it helped me to dare to dive in the rest for myself, while if I hadn't followed this course, I wouldn't have explored it all on my own. Cudo's.
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Lucianu wrote on May 24, 2021

Very good course for finding out what is possible with Kontakt 6
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Robbie Stevens wrote on January 7, 2021

Really helpful overview of Kontakt as a whole. Exactly what I needed to begin getting more from this amazing sample player.
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Maarten wrote on June 29, 2020

Very good introduction!
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Alex wrote on June 24, 2020

Great beginner's introduction to NI's Kontakt. Thanks!
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Ron wrote on June 21, 2020

Nice friendly presentation and an enjoyable course for those new to Kontakt.
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Greg Mackender wrote on May 26, 2020

Up-to-date information on the basics of the latest version Kontakt. Everything the first-time user needs to know.
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Nick J wrote on May 16, 2020

Good course as an introduction.
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