Setting up Kontakt 5 Player Multi-Out in Studio One

This video is a step-by-step instruction video on how to set up a multi-output instance of Kontakt 5 Player in Studio One.
As an example I've used the drum plug-in called Studio Drummer.

[@whydoineedausernamef]

Thank you SOOOO much for this explanation!!! I've watched 3 other videos today on multi-out in Studio One and you are the only one that mentioned the "Output" symbol you have to click in the Instrument Editor. Pretty important step to not omit if you want things to work. You are a life saver!

[@carminedelduca1]

Great explanation !!!! Super detailed as we need. Congratulations and thank you very much. I had many doubts and could not understand other tutorials. Yours was perfect !!!!

[@SupercyMusic]

Thank you! And great to hear the video was helpful to you 👍

[@garrystubbs4891]

This was perfect, I have been struggling with this for several hours today. I have been making notes, getting closer each time, but hadn't achieved what I set out to do as a template for Kontakt in my Studio One projects until I took a break and found your excellent tutorial here. I had looked at a few others earlier in the day but they left me none the wiser. Kontact is a superb engine but it can be bafflingly difficult to figure out under the hood much of the time. Thanks once again and thats a sub from me to your channel.

[@Jazman342]

Thanks for this. Took a fair bit of searching online to find how to show the Kontakt mixer in the first place. I have, however, been unable to get the mixer in Studio One to function in any usable way. I mean the signals appear as expected but I am unable to do anything with the channels. Have to hold "options" (Mac) to move an individual fader and when I add an effect to a channel it adds to all channels. I suspect the issue is within Studio one and routing of the individual channels. The video is several years old now alas. Got me started though so thanks for that.

[@Mookle123]

You're a godsend. I couldn't find a comprehensible explanation for this anywhere! Thank you for donating your time to make these tutorials for the masses :)

[@SupercyMusic]

Thank you! And you're very welcome 😉

[@BlackBearTexas]

Thank you!!! The routing in kontakt has been so hard for me to understand, but you definitely helped me with your explanation at the end of the video. The routing behavior is very odd, you're definitely right about that

[@SupercyMusic]

Thanks for your comment! Great to hear this video helped you out!

[@CptCoitus]

I've been struggling with this for about a day trying to figure out how to get more than 5 stereo outputs from Kontakt 5 Player in Studio One 3. This is what I did to get it to work. Open up Studio One. Load Kontakt 5 Player onto a new track. Open "Outputs" dialog to add more output tracks. Add 16 stereo outputs (or how many you need) starting at "Kt. St. 1" and click on "ascending output", "delete existing tracks", AND "make this your default configuration" buttons. Hit "Okay" to create tracks. Hit the Exclamation button (!) in the upper right to restart the engine. Now close Kontakt, delete track and instrument from Studio One, and then open a new instance of Kontakt on a new track. You should see all of your stereo tracks listed in the output pull-down at the top of the window. I hope this helps anyone scratching their head over this issue.

[@SupercyMusic]

Great information, thank you!

[@ganjarrahparta6740]

Thak Youuuuuuuuuuu

[@AntonSherar]

What do i do if i have 12 instruments with each of them having been set to specific settings? Do i just have to do it all again? :(

[@sol_music]

Thank you so much!! I was stuck with 5 st outputs for so long.

[@IamAnHonestThief]

WOHHH thank you for this mate! And to Supercy for the video. I was also banging my head for the last 3 hours. It goes to show us that just when we think somethings broken (albeit this kontakt setup is mad), if we use our brain we can find a way! Thanks again !

[@jcppman]

THANK YOU SO MUCH. I've spent TONS of time doing nothing because of this routing issue.

[@SupercyMusic]

You're very welcome! 😉

[@xmaverickhunterkx]

Stupidest thing is I've done this before, but somehow I compleeeetely forgot and here I am. Thanks, sir.

[@SupercyMusic]

You're welcome 😉

[@svenson745]

awesome, thank you for this detailed video, it helped me a lot!

[@seighart90]

thanks for the tutorial, this cleared up so many things for me!

[@richim2326]

thanks for this... when it comes to drum tracks, i'm a relative newbie, but you explained it brilliantly... i'm off to try it now

[@SupercyMusic]

You're very welcome, Richi! And thank you for your comment; good to hear the video was useful to you! 😉👍🏻

[@edwardgibbon2557]

Thanks! After much searching today, your great tutorial finally got the foundation of making multiple tracks with studio one/kontakt. I'm still having issues actually, but using ver 2 of Studio One. I don't have the option to select "aux" when I add outputs in the Kontakt output plane. I just see "st.1"/"st.2"/ and undefined, but just one of those. I ended up getting a decent drum mix within Kontakt, and saving final mixing until I have the final drum take - but I don't think it should be so difficult. I was under the impression it was part of SO's core features - and Kontakt seems to have infinite possibilities. They need to simplify, I'm just a musician over here!

[@edwardgibbon2557]

I just saw, MrIgnition solved the prob possibly in comments...

[@SupercyMusic]

Thanks for your comment Edward! My apologies for my late response. Great to hear your problem seems to be solved. If you have any other questions please let me know!

[@satrianijr]

Amazing video! thanks for the sharing!

[@ahmetbaykara.mp3]

Your explaining is very very clear and very helpfull.!! I liked your speaking 😃👍🏼 My english isn't very well but i understand everythink what you tell 😌🙏🌱

[@SupercyMusic]

Thank you for your comment Ahmet! Nice to hear that this video was helpful to you!

[@PADR]

Well explained. Thank you.

[@SupercyMusic]

Thank you, Paul! And you're welcome 😉👍

[@RodolfoCruzMusic]

Great video, thanks man

[@SupercyMusic]

Glad you liked it! And you're welcome 😉

[@TechnoticTV]

Dude you are a life saver.

[@minakoro]

Thank you for this very helpful tutorial!

[@aiconic10]

This is the millionth video I've seen on this and I have never gotten this feature to work. Not a major deal but obviously puzzling. Very simple yet uber sophisticated. Not wired for it. Kinda sad. Nice tool too.

[@ProvineStudios]

Great tutorial. Worked perfectly for me.

[@SupercyMusic]

Thank you, Chris! Good to hear the video was helpful for you!

[@georgeg4136]

Thanks for the video! I have a question: The sound of the drum set is not the same after rooted into multi outputs. Why is this happening?

[@SupercyMusic]

That's a tough question 🤔 Separating the signal into many different signals obviously alters the signal flow, and that might influence the end result, e.g. the way effects are being applied might be different. That is the only thing I could think of right now. 🙂

[@jornaythachanel2988]

I did excitedly what you said. But the instrument not sent to kontact channel. Help!!!

[@KordTaylor]

Really a well done video. Thank you.

[@SupercyMusic]

Thank you for your very nice compliment, Kord!

[@harvey8695]

I followed the video, but I cannot control the volume of the individual tracks in Studio One unless I mute the master track that I created.

[@thorntoneaudio5939]

Hello, does kontakt PLAYER even have multi outs? I can't seem to find ANY dialogue on "outputs" anywhere.

[@pastors.khambuang7418]

I dont know how to rout master master channel can you explain? please I m concusing

[@tmondle]

Hi.. Love your video on the set-up but could you PLEASE tell us how you added Kontakt 5 to the Sudio One Instrument? I have Studio One4 and even after locating the Kontakt5.dll in Program Files (Window 7 x64), Common, Native Instruments, when I try to add to SO 4, it does not show up. If you have the time, could you please help us out with a video on how to add the K5 to SO4. Thanks so much.

[@SupercyMusic]

Hi, sorry to hear that you're having some problems adding Kontakt 5 to Studio One. I'll try to make a quick video about this and hopefully, that will help to resolve your problem 😉

[@SupercyMusic]

Hi, I've just uploaded a video about installing Native Instruments plug-ins using Native Access. If you're still having issues with installing Kontakt 5, hopefully this video might help you resolve them. pls let me know if you've solved the problem. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gnmUoIiLo5pgjLs

[@emirceric3227]

Ok, all this work is so nice, how about a bleeding channels in the End?The goal is to have all elements separated, i see all channels signal moving🙁

[@SupercyMusic]

Thank you for your question, Emir. I you're talking about the Studio Drummer plug-in, and you don't want any bleeding, you can

[@thecriminalorchestra2538]

Do u have to do this every time u open contact... and do u have to do it separate for the piano and other set ups?

[@SupercyMusic]

The setup is saved with the song, so everytime you open the song the setup will still be there. Also you can save a mixer setup in Kontakt itself as a preset.And to your second question:The output of any plugin that you open (in one instance of Kontakt) will go through the same mixer setup. So you basically have to set that up only once. Not so of course if you open a plugin in a separate instance of Kontakt, in that case obviously you would have to setup the mixer again.I hope this answers your question, if not please let me know.

[@mikechec]

hi hopefully you can help me. im following your instructions but at 4:36, when you choose outputs in the kontact outputs.... mine only has st.1[1] and st.2[2]. it dont have the aux or any other outputs. Not sure why or how to resolve this.

[@SupercyMusic]

Hi Funny Fella’z When I selected Kontakt in the video at 0:15 I had 3 different options to choose from: Kontakt 5, Kontakt 5 16out and Kontakt 5 8out. Kontakt 5 gives me a virtually unlimited amount of outputs, Kontakt 5 16out gives me 16 outputs and Kontakt 5 8out gives me 8 outputs. It sounds like maybe you somehow selected a version that allows you to only have 2 outputs. Could you please look into that. And please keep me posted.

[@mikechec]

hi, thanks for replying.. yeah i have kontakt on my laptop and i went thru and yes it had the different kontakt options (kontact 16 out etc). i opened it up and it gave me all the routing options (in kontakt output) so i need to find out how to get that kontakt on my main studio comp as it only gave me kontact (au). thank you!

[@sujitchavanmusic8805]

Simplified video !Thankyou

[@Metalpazallteway]

How can I use 16+ stereo channels while rerouting in one instance? I apparently can only use 16 but kontakt has 64 in total no?

[@cedricmialaret3300]

When used as a plugin, Kontakt can output a maximum of 32 channels (16 stereo channels) for VSTs, and 16 (8 stereo channels) for AU and RTAS plugins.

[@Metalpazallteway]

@@cedricmialaret3300 Thank you.. Yes I noticed that unfortunately..

[@BloodSavedMe]

Some reason my studio one doesn't recognize any audio signals from the mono

[@Nysasq]

My kontakt 5.6 VST dll cannot even be detected by the Studio One 3 daw. Any suggestions?

[@SupercyMusic]

Hi, it's difficult to tell from my position what might cause this problem, but there is one thing that immediately comes to mind; could you please check this: In Studio One open the "Studio One" menu (at the top), choose "Options" then go to "Locations" and then open the "VST Plug-Ins" tab. Here you tell Studio One which locations on your harddrive(s) it should look/search for Plug-Ins. And make sure that "Scan at startup" is selected, so every time you start Studio One it will look for (newly) added Plug-Ins. If you haven't already please try this, and please let me know if this fixes the problem.

[@tomvice]

In order to record each instrument (kick, snare, hi hat etc.) it's own track-for processing, bussing, parallel compression etc, I did the following: Set the kontakt generated tracks to output, to a dummy bus (instead of "Main"). Turn the fader all the way down on the dummy bus. Create 11 tracks, and set the input the corresponding kontakt generated track Is there a more elegant way?

[@SupercyMusic]

Hello Let me say this: the method shown in the video makes the most sense to me. But of course like always there are many ways to achieve the same goal. What is the best or the most elegant way to do it is entirely up to you, it completely depends on your preferences.

[@tomvice]

I'm talking about something else buddy. AFTER you do what's on the video, if you want to record individual tracks. The additional steps you would need to take

[@SupercyMusic]

I'm just not quit sure why exactly you would need to do that, but if you do and your method works, then stick with it. Anyway, thanks for the tip 👍🏻

[@tomvice]

Supercy when you have a miced up drumset you get indivual editable audio tracks (instead of midi). Recording them as I mentioned would allow you to mix the drums as you would with a real set

[@6noteblues]

Good point. Here's my question/comment: In this video, the drum components of the drum kit are sent to their own individual Channel (not Track). But if we're able to send and insert effects on each Channel as is described in this video, does it matter if the total audio outputs are sent to one "Master" track? Would we really need a separate Track for each drum component for a midi instrument? In the meantime, I'll try your suggestion and see what the benefits might be. Thanks for your comment.

[@oirogerg99]

where can I find Kontakt in studio one 3, is it part of studio one 3 instrument or separate program

[@SupercyMusic]

Hi Oirog, Kontakt is a separate program made by Native Instruments. For more information click the link below. www.native-instruments.com/en/products/komplete/samplers/kontakt-5-player/

[@mihail15sorokin]

Thank you man

[@TomAuffarth]

Got it, THX!!

[@SupercyMusic]

You're welcome, Tom 👍

[@SteveWatsonMusic]

Thank you!

[@Eric-dd8bk]

I'm a newby so this might be a newby comment but why do they not just make stand alone vst when it comes to drums and just let the users make separate tracks for each part of the drum instead of going through another hoop of setting up Kontakt on top of it? I know there are a lot of drum vsts that do not require kontakt to run so my comment is why bother making drum vsts that only run in Kontakt?

[@shredvince71]

It just amazes me you put up a video and (select drums- Not) instead of 4 or 6 instruments to create a multi/template and explain exactly what to do so studio one will recognize the separate outputs.

[@SupercyMusic]

Hi thanks for your comment. Obviously there are many ways of setting up any plugin instrument in any DAW. In this video I just wanted show people my way of setting up Kontakt 5 in Studio One and explain why I did what. But of course you might prefer a different way of working with Studio One or Kontakt 5, and that's fine. In fact I would encourage anyone to develop their own way or working with their equipment. But that doesn't mean that you cannot still learn something from others. And just hope that some people will learn something from this video, that's all.

[@ronaldboykin9755]

Can you save this setup as a preset?

[@SupercyMusic]

Hello Ronald, thanks for your question! I know that within Kontak there is an option to save "snapshots" of instrument settings and you can also save the settings of the output section. And of course, you can also save the entire song as a Studio One template.

[@b1na276]

may i ask How do i load *.nki instrument in studio one 2?

[@SupercyMusic]

Hello Alysa. In most cases, you would need to use Native Access to add instruments to Kontakt. In some cases, you would need to use the file browser in Kontakt itself. I hope this answers your question 😯

[@pastors.khambuang7418]

Thank you Sir

[@SupercyMusic]

You're welcome 😉

[@jamesconraadtucker]

Brucie, Thank you. However, you do not want the bleed you are displaying on all channels. To eliminate the pre fader bleed, DO NOT assign different inputs. Keep them reporting to the default stereo track. This will also make editing easier as the notes will be together in one edit window. The outputs will still be assigned as you did that correctly. The way you sounded the snare and had all of that bleed on every channel defeats the purpose of a discete mix. The bleed will still occur on your overheads, and room channels as it should. Take care!

[@charltonmoore]

I'm at an absolute dead end right now and it's keeping me up at night. I'm using an instrument within Kontakt player called The Orchestra by Sonuscore. Outside of Studio One my mod wheel and pitch bend work fine, in terms of hearing it back in real time. Once loaded into an instrument track in Studio One, the automation for the wheels are picked up and I see the lines being drawn but I don't hear it in real time nor do I hear it in play back. This is a massive issue for me because I'm trying to create vibrato, volume swells etc... PLEASE anyone that can help I would literally venmo you money to talk me through whatever is happening. I have tried everything I can think of and I can't find a video that addresses this particular issue with Kontakt player's relationship with studio one.

[@SupercyMusic]

I'm really sorry to hear that, Charlton. To be honest, I'm not sure what would cause this issue. The only thing I can do is to suggest you contact either Presonus, Native Instruments or Sonuscore. Good luck!

[@FrenchBullgodz]

Well Done!

[@SupercyMusic]

Thank you Elijah! I hope it was useful to you

[@imjustplaying9081]

maybe dumb question but why not just control this stuff through kontakt? What's the purpose or benefits of duplicating the channels in studio one mixer?

[@SupercyMusic]

Hi Anand, First of all: there are no dumb questions, and this certainly isn't one. In fact, it is quite possible to make a kind of submix in Kontakt and just use that in the mix. However, the benefits of assigning corresponding tracks in the Studio One mixer is that you will then have more control over the various sounds coming from Kontakt. For example, you can then add an (Studio One) effect to one of the sounds while the other sounds coming from Kontakt stay unaffected. And you basically have full control over things like panning and volume right from the Studio One mixer, and you don't need to open up Kontakt every time you need to make an adjustment.

[@imjustplaying9081]

Supercy thanks for this, sometimes I should probably do a mix and just find out.. I realised what you're saying a week ago when I used a loop through kontakt, kinda difficult to take the loops individual instruments and assign a channel though

[@ciro423]

Thanks,man

[@SupercyMusic]

You're welcome! 👍🏻

[@pamelapethoud9058]

I appreciate the video, but why did you select the drums to start out with and making it complicated and confusing. You should of started with 3 or 4 mono tracks to do a multi and kept it simple > like step 1 , step 2

[@SupercyMusic]

Thank you for your comment Pamela! I’m sorry that you find this video complicated and confusing. I just recreated what I think is a realistic situation and tried to explain how to set that up and how the routing works. Anyway I hope in the end you got the principle behind this setup; if you have any further questions, please let me know!

[@ronaldboykin9755]

I know in Studio One you have to create an instance of Kantakt as a multi instrument before you can save it as a preset in Studio One, I’ve used an older version of Kantakt! How do you do this? Simple! Setup Kantakt the way the author of this video instructs and then grab another virtual instrument and drop it on the Kantakt instance and Wa La, Kantakt is a Studio One multi instrument, you can delete the instrument that you dropped on Kantakt, now you save your Kantakt instance as a Studio One preset!

[@cat-hs4nn]

If you want more than 5 stereo tracks in Studio One, there is a way: *1)* Create a new session in Studio One. *2)* Load Kontakt and configure the Kontakt outputs exactly as you desire them to be, 16 stereo outputs for example. Avoid naming the outputs. * *3)* From the "Presets / Batch Configuration" menu, choose "Save current output section state as default for" > "All Formats". *4)* Remove _all_ instances of the Kontakt plug-in from the session, or simply close the session and create a new blank session. *5)* Load Kontakt again and load the instrument you wish to use (the given instrument may need you to set it to run in a multi-out mode and route each of its sources to the individual Kontakt outputs). You may need to press the ! button as seen in the video should Kontakt be failing to see its outputs. *6)* In the Studio One wrapper UI that Kontakt exists within, click the Outputs "|->" button at the top and tick the first 16 stereo outs (and the 4 aux outs if you need them). *7)* Test Kontakt: now every stereo channel in Kontakt should also be operating in stereo inside of Studio One. ** Happy music-making! * I would avoid naming your channels inside of Kontakt as these will become the default 16 outputs for any kontakt instrument you use, and not all instruments will need a "Kick" and a "Snare" output for example. Instead, name the outputs in Studio One after step 7. ** Since we've set the defaults, in the future you just need to load Kontakt into your new songs and the outputs will be ready to work as one might expect out of the box: just do step 6 and you're done. This example was based off my findings getting Wave Alchemy's Revolution plug-in to output 16 stereo outputs to Studio One. ❤ _Want to give back?_ ❤ A little crypto would make me happy! ❤ *BTC:* 3QPJDuBkuLUJDUrFbzJmT8nT7jGbMdZWCg ❤ *ETH:* 0x39064e392FF0762Ee191c8868fEdea50594ff194

[@SupercyMusic]

Thank you for the great extra info! 👍🏻

[@rolandherenow3134]

It's good that you offered some extra advice, but pretty cheesy to ask for money in return. After all, this is someone else's tutorial thread. But more importantly, lots of people, including me, offer free advice on KZbin without expecting repayment. Maybe if you create a tutorial site, like Groove 3, then you'd be justified to ask for something. Other than that...

[@sepulchre10]

Yet another "How to get multiple DRUM outputs" tutorial. Nothing about how to get multiple INSTRUMENTS. Your video is fine, just not what I've been looking for.

[@SupercyMusic]

Thanks for your comment Ken. Sorry to hear that this video wasn't what you were looking for. I will look into this and I might do another video about that in the near future.

[@gtizzle101]

try this kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHSVaIeOe7WZhLs