User's Manual
Table Of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- 1. Disclaimer
- 2. Welcome to KOMPLETE KONTROL
- 3. The KOMPLETE KONTROL Workflows
- 4. Setting up KOMPLETE KONTROL
- 5. Software Overview
- 6. Keyboard Overview
- 7. Global Controls and Preferences
- 8. MIDI Communication
- 9. Using the MIDI Assignment Editor
- 10. Host Integration
- 11. Browsing the Library
- 11.1. Browser Basics
- 11.2. Opening the Browser
- 11.3. Loading Preset Files
- 11.4. Choosing Between Factory Content and User Content
- 11.5. Filtering Preset Files by Product
- 11.6. Filtering Preset Files by Bank
- 11.7. Resetting the Product Selection
- 11.8. Types and Characters Tags
- 11.9. Working with Favorites
- 11.10. Performing a Text Search
- 11.11. Displaying Preset File Information
- 11.12. Auditioning your Preset Files
- 12. Working with Effects
- 13. Working with Loops and One-Shot Samples
- 14. Managing the Library
- 14.1. Saving Preset Files to the User Library
- 14.2. Deleting User Preset Files from the User Library
- 14.3. Editing the Tags and Properties of User Preset Files
- 14.4. Syncing Multiple Instances
- 14.5. Working with the Files Pane
- 14.6. Loading VST Plug-ins
- 14.7. Installing NKS Instruments
- 14.8. Importing KOMPLETE KONTROL-Compatible User Files
- 15. Controlling Instrument, Loop, One-shot and Effect Parameters
- 16. Smart Play – Playing and Editing Scales and Chords
- 17. Smart Play – Playing and Editing Arpeggiator Sequences
Using Swing in combination with the Gate parameter adds further variations in note duration. For
example, if Gate is set to 100%, KOMPLETE KONTROL sends a MIDI note-off message before
each note and plays back the sequence legato. If Gate is set to values larger or smaller than
100%, then notes will be scaled after the value of the Swing parameter has been applied, leaving
the groove intact.
17.5. OTHER Parameters
The OTHER parameters Octaves, Dynamic, and Gate allow you to change the range of available
notes for the arpeggiator sequence, as well as their velocity and length.
The OTHER parameters Octaves, Dynamic, and Gate.
17.5.1. OTHER Octaves
The first OTHER parameter, Octaves, is only available in Arp mode. On the keyboard, it is map-
ped to Knob 6 of the Control section in Arp Edit mode. It lets you decide the range of the arpeggia-
tor sequence. You can choose to play back your sequence within the octave of only the keys you
pressed on the KOMPLETE KONTROL keyboard, or you can select up to eight octaves and let the
corresponding notes of your chord or scale be played back in as many octaves.
Depending on the settings you have made to the Type parameter, the octaves played back can be
above (e.g., Up), below (e.g., Down) or both above and below (Up & Down) the pressed keys.
The Octaves setting includes the following values:
• 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
To display the set value of the OCTAVES parameter, tap Knob 6.
17.5.2. OTHER Dynamic
The second OTHER parameter, Dynamic, is only available in Arp mode. On the keyboard it is
mapped to Knob 7 of the Control section in Arp Edit mode. It reads the velocity of the input—e.g.,
a key you pressed on the KOMPLETE KONTROL keyboard or an incoming MIDI note from the
host—and scales it by the factor you set with the Dynamic parameter. The scaling is applied per
note. The velocity of each played note is taken and multiplied by the value set with the Dynamic
parameter.
Dynamic is a drag control that lets you set a value between 1.0% and 200.0%.
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