Intro to Kontakt Scripting: Adding your First Knob + FREE KONTAKT INSTRUMENT

[@derekcarney]

You are a great teacher. You are precise, clear, concise, and go at the perfect pace. Not too fast and you don't get lost in tangents. Thanks so much and keep up the good work!

[@Gmacdrums]

Don't usually comment, however these videos are of the utmost resourcefulness and have assisted me greatly. You also appear to be a very fluent and skilled teacher. Well done mate.

[@danielclem7409]

I'm blown away, you helped me do something I thought was impossible. Thanks so much!!!

[@dawvideokanal7369]

This is the best tutorial I have found so far, not too fast and easy to understand, thank you!

[@jamesblunsdon3576]

I've watched this multiple times now trying to get to grips with scripting and 9:17 always crack me up with the deadpan "the labels all cutoff"

[@orciety]

Great tutorial! I love how you explain what each line does instead of just telling us what to do.

[@jessebillson]

I can't imagine a better start into kip than what you gave here!

[@TheTheimpossible]

Hey y'all I know this is an older post but I just wanted to say thank you! I was able to create my first Kontakt instrument ever. Decent Sampler is next. Onward and thank you again!

[@Sesaon3]

Thanks for taking the time David to post this excellent video. I have just sampled my first project (home piano) and now it's complete with Reverb and Volume Knobs :-)

[@polygonollie8448]

Thank you for doing this, David. It's an incredibly helpful resource to have, even with the documentations on hand.

[@navneet4489]

Thanks to you bro🙌 because of you I was able to built my first instrument...❤️

[@charlesrobichaud-parahawkm4088]

This is outstanding! There is so much here for those wanting to learn Kontakt Scripting; the process is clear and easy to follow and understand. Continued success. I do appreciate your generosity with your time.

[@mybiggrin]

Imma sample that hair

[@lolzlarkin3059]

Is...is...is that hair gel...?

[@AlexisFalantas]

that was an excellent and extremely helpful tutorial! Thank you for the time you spent to spread the knowledge!!

[@Utamaru56]

Thank you for this series. Exactly what I needed to kick start my personal project

[@nickdwyer]

This has explained some basic concepts I wish i'd taken the trouble to learn before now! Thanks. The idea of cut and paste straight from the KSP manual then filling in your own parameters is excellent

[@mundanemusic5005]

An excellent tutorial. You have a clear and logical teaching style. Thanks David. 👍😀

[@skylightmusicshowree]

Thanks David. It reminded me of learning BASIC (syntax error messages!) and then HTML. Being able to cut copy and paste from the manual is really neat, but watching you work through it made the process seem less daunting. Creating my own instrument for Kontakt is on my 'to do' list for 2019...no excuses now! :-)

[@nicholasharral6128]

This is incredibly helpful David! Thanks so much!

[@ChrisLodyMusic]

Total legend, thank you. I'd worked about half of this out on my own before I found this video, would have been much easier if i'd watched it first I think 😄 Thanks very much!

[@Dudadius]

Thanks. Learning a lot from your videos.

[@lullatone]

Thank you for making this and sharing it with everyone. You made it super clear and easy to understand!

[@stefanorncomposer]

This is my favorite channel! Love it!!!

[@KevinDePreeMusic]

This was super helpful! Thanks, David.

[@jaymusicz]

Wow! What a great tutorial you've done! I didn't know it's that easy to sample my own instrument.. Thanks a lot!!

[@66KhzProductions]

Dude you are a superhero thanks so much again! Saved me so much time

[@Fflynty95]

This has been really useful for me getting started, thank you so much so explaining the basics so brilliantly! Also I love the hair!

[@BenCaesar]

A whole new world!

[@jupiterbyjay6168]

Thank you much for this/your youtube channel🙌😁👍🏻 keep going!!!

[@DavidHilowitzMusic]

jupiterbyjay Thanks! More videos coming. :)

[@yeettheday]

thank you for making these videos, much love fam, these are incredibly helpful

[@garaughty]

Excellent, clear tutorial... much appreciated !

[@aLoudSi1ence]

Thank you so much. Better than some paid courses.

[@musicbooktech3999]

Thank you for your time, Great Video👍I want to create my own instrument library for kontakt and this will help me a lot. Thanks for the knowledge “priceless”

[@maxbrodie1267]

Thanks so much for making this David - v helpful.

[@PaulJonesy]

Great video, excellent explanation.

[@VincentSermonne]

Merci David ! Ce serait interressant que tu nous décrive aussi bien comment changer le knob en fader ;) Merci ça me fait enormement progresser dans ma compréhension de KSP !

[@maddamon788]

Thank you, I like your teaching style, subbed!

[@JahnRose]

appreciate all the vids. I am working on an instrument in Kontakt & I thought it would be nice to share it with people that only have Kontakt Player - Is there a way for me to edit the script so that it wont play in "demo mode" inside kontakt player & shut down after 15 min?

[@ronlobomusic]

Thanks for the awesome content!

[@howardbongabao3063]

thanks for sharing your gift of music. keep it up! Mabuhay!

[@ephremluechinger]

really helpful, thanks a lot. all your videos are really good by the way. thanx for that.

[@MichaelBogaMusic]

Thank you so much! I appreciate so much the time you took to do that, can't wait to try it out!

[@thaiwoodwind444]

Thank you for teach me. This is a good video for beginer.

[@mrmeoff]

Great vid,! Thanks for sharing.

[@EndreOttem]

Wow, excellent channel! Thank you so much for this.

[@ZeroesandOnes]

Fantastic, great video

[@whatitdokaris]

damn this tutorial is incredibly accurate. thanks and congrats

[@StudioLucidMusic]

Great Video! Thanx David :-)

[@pjdahmen]

Thank you for the great tutorial

[@TheFriedSky]

Awesome, thank you! Great hair by the way. :D

[@DavidHilowitzMusic]

Thanks! Seems to look different every time I shoot a video. :)

[@FiddlingwithmyWhistle]

Slowly working through more of your videos... this is a good one... that's If I had Kontakt. But can you get older versions to make a library in 5.3, if you buy 6

[@polypx]

2'45 It does matter where you add it if you want to also route velocity to that cutoff... must be in the group inserts for that.

[@DavidHilowitzMusic]

Good point. That's absolutely true!

[@MaseratiSparks]

@@DavidHilowitzMusic If i want to add another knob and functions would i have to start a new on init?

[@DavidHilowitzMusic]

@@MaseratiSparks no. you can declare as may knobs as you need within the same init block.

[@MaseratiSparks]

@@DavidHilowitzMusic I dont mean to pander you but this is what i have so far declare ui_knob $Reverb(0,100000,1) set_text($Reverb,"Reverb") set_knob_label($Reverb,get_engine_par_disp($ENGINE_PAR_RV2_STEREO,-1,0,1)) so i would duplicate and do the same thing?

[@DavidHilowitzMusic]

@@MaseratiSparks Yes, but with a different variable name.

[@rollonfood]

Hey great video. I want to sample a little semi modular and make into a library. 2 things I'd like to ask. When i sample it , do i need a fully sustained note or does note length not matter? Also there's no way of knowing which notes coming out without using a tuner plug in, do i have to at least sample a different note from a whole octave?

[@dokma_eu]

Thanks for this introduction, David. I believe we all know who you are, your name was mentioned at several places (either at Spitfire Audio channel or at Christian's own channel, I believe?). Please share more knowledge and examples on how to work with Kontakt Scripting Language, that would be great.

[@Neetamusic]

This is a really great vid thanks for the walk through! Thought next time it might be helpful to see the script a bit larger or have the text that your typing appear somewhere lager. kept having to pause and enlarge the screen to see exactly what you are typing!

[@mattkelly270]

Awesome video, thank you!

[@RitchieCaron]

The video I needed to see. Thank you so much

[@siddhantpetkar9728]

Great video!

[@lufemisc]

THANKS!!!!!!!! SOOO MUCH!

[@wuuukie]

Hi, do you possibly know how can I assing computers keyboard for changing instruments in kontakt? I used to change them with my midi, however I tend to change octaves and keys a lot, so its a big no no for me. Im looking for something like Q-P - guitars, A-L - pianos, Z-M - synths etc.

[@jeffhijlkema]

Great and so generous!...

[@giscardrasquin4793]

Awesome!

[@mysoundrights]

Excelent tutorial! thanks!

[@artietrasshko7141]

Hello Sir Mr David Hilowitz, really enjoyed this tutorial but was dismayed to see that the Korg Volca key sampler is no longer available. Is there a way I can get a pdf of the script you made?

[@eross21]

this is very helpful. how can i go about doing the same thing, but instead of filter knobs, i can have the step sequencer on the performance view like yours?

[@crimps953]

the ladder filter is basicly a moog filter btw

[@HarpyaMedia]

Hey, guy! Liked it! Well, is there any way to get the name of the current loaded instrument?

[@jonmattox]

Brilliant!

[@AndyDrudy]

You sir - are a legend!!

[@Michael_H_Nielsen]

That was really good and understandable :)

[@MrJansteiner]

Hi David, first of all thank you very much for all these useful videos. I find them very helpful and inspiring. Not sure what happened with your hairstyle in this video but that’s ok- artistic freedom…🤣 My main question: you’re starting one step too late or advanced for me, ie how do you generate all these neat samples that you then just nicely and simply drag and drop into Kontakt? That’s where I’m stuck. Should I record one large session and then chop up? Is there an easier/faster way? I’m using Ableton but I also have a couple of other software samplers. Would it be better to do it in sampler like eg Waves CR8? Thanks again for your help and advice. All the best from Ireland, Jan

[@joeycequina9073]

Thanks

[@andrewarnold9888]

Hi, I used this video to add knobs to a Kontakt instrument. Thanks for putting this together, it's really informative. It has inspired me to dig a little deeper into scripting. I've recently built a simple instrument with an LFO modulation, and added a knob for controlling the frequency via a modulator. This is fine, except that the knob is not responding to the move_control command, as used for all the other 8 knobs. Can you help? Thanks again for this video.

[@jimp5713]

Hi David, would you be able to help with how to declare a knob to modulate a Convolution Reverb on the Main Effects part from an NKI instrument? Its on Slot 0, but am not sure how to declare it and what to use to define. Also would be great if could have a button to turn on/off. But at this point would be hopeful if could help with how to do this. I think it has something to do with the following possibly, but am not sure on this. Thanks, JimP on init declare ui_knob $reverbKnob(0,1000000,-1) set_text ($reverbKnob,"Reverb") set_knob_label ($reverbKnob, get_engine_par-disp($ENGINE_PAR_EFFECT_TYPE_IRC,-1,0,-1) make_persistent($reverbKnob) end on {--------} on ui_control ($reverbKnob) set_engine_par ($ENGINE_PAR_EFFECT_TYPE_IRC,$reverbKnob,-1,0,-1) set_knob_label ($reverbKnob, get_engine_par-disp($ENGINE_PAR_EFFECT_TYPE_IRC,-1,0,-1) end on

[@andreaswallevik516]

Thanks man!

[@JimmyBlimps]

This is amazing thank you so much for these videos :D I just finished my first two attempts at libraries and while they're very basic they now look nice and have a few controls. Have you done a video showing how to set keys for changing groups? I'm working on a voice pack and would be cool to be able to press keys on the controller to easily switch between ooh's and aah's etc.

[@wlacsilbalazs]

Is it possible to make it work backward? Can an engine parameter move a slider while its playing?

[@enormoustunes6012]

How did you manage to import different sample to each group and have them in that drop down menu?

[@atroppmusic]

thank you for the very informative and incredible videos!! im trying to do exactly what you do on this video bug the filters are crashing (making some weird and very very loud noises) or not answering to the interface knob at all.. the code is exactly the same. do you know what can be happening here? tried to do it on 5.7 and 6.2 with same results

[@portcreditswag]

i be having problem using reverb in my sampler instruments(off topic)...got the html cheat for a samp inst? redit? man kontakt has bugs. so annoying..on kontakt 5 on an old computer, thx love from toronto

[@MaseratiSparks]

Im trying to add reverb knob and its not moving

[@edmilsonlima8683]

Como eu faço para bloquea meu meu script do contact

[@zenobibonsai]

Love your kontakt vids really helpful - I know I watched this in one of your videos cant remember which but can you tell me how to assign a default value to a knob in the init section cheers dude :)

[@zenobibonsai]

Never mind I found the answer: by adding this in the on init: set_control_par(get_ui_id($myKnob),$CONTROL_PAR_DEFAULT_VALUE,630000) I also went a little further by adding a reset to default (ctrl and click on knob) by adding set_knob_defval($myKnob,630000) also in the on init This would set the master volume to 0.0 on load and when ctrl clicking on knob :0) this is fun!

[@steelcityriddims]

@@zenobibonsai Thanks Barry you just helped me out with setting the default value

[@GranulatedStuff]

The hair's because of the Inbetweeners (Joe Thomas) look-alike thing right ?

[@TheJphoenix69]

so the samples are mp3 or.smp or does it matter?

[@project2784]

🙏

[@erickfp]

That reminds me of learning html in 1996. Then they invented visual editors. Mmmm, I'm not too sure I want spend too much time learning this script language...

[@pyjamaplanet]

"Ok. We have a working knob..." :D

[@MaseratiSparks]

Do you an email? I want to know how i can make one instrument that can load multiple samples ? like as in changing sounds in banks?

[@DavidHilowitzMusic]

Maserati Sparks Hmm. That would be a good topic for a tutorial video.

[@MaseratiSparks]

David Hilowitz Music if you can make a video that would be awesome

[@gkathmandu]

Hello sir, I dont usually have sustain pedal, How can I assign it to my midikeyboard's mod /filter or any other ? Cant find it anywhere else

[@dokma_eu]

Korg Volca is a "little bit noisy", haha :)

Game for Kontakt github.com/luisreiskeys/Kontakt_Game

[@authenticexpressions2559]

zoom in

[@marcusdekker]

and i thought a sampler would be a simple instrument; just record a sound, press a key and it plays........

[@brunovalente2077]

Why it wouldn't be as simple as drag and drop for a program that costs 400€!! Why they dont upgrade their software, it looks so outdated. I can see now why Native Instruments is struggling to survive

[@EricPeelMusic]

Funny. The only reason to have this knob would be to allow the customer to avoid the $400-600 it takes to buy this 20 year old piece of software in order to access the cutoff directly from the insert. But in doing so, you must pay Kontakt (several hundred dollars per year, for life), to allow your user to avoid the $400-600 it takes to buy this 20 year old piece of software in order to access the cutoff directly from the insert. Greedy, corrupt fellowman running Native Instruments for sure. By the way, when do think they're going to update their 20 year old interface? So I don't need to be 10 inches away from my 4k monitor and avoid wrecking my eyes after a day's work? And so I don't have to rely on a literal single 4k pixel to make a 5% adjustment to an envelope?