User Manual

10 Browsing the Library
The Browser is the place where you can find and load Instruments and Preset Files in KOM-
PLETE KONTROL as well as organizing your own Preset files. You will at first learn about the
Browser basics followed by explaining the browsing workflows. This section details both, the
workflows in the software and on the keyboard side by side.
10.1 Browser Basics
This section describes some general concepts about the Browser.
10.1.1 About the Library and Meta-Information
To organize, find, keep track of, and provide you thousands of Preset files at any time ready for
loading, KOMPLETE KONTROL makes use of a Library . The Library contains the factory con-
tent of your KOMPLETE Instruments and NKS Instruments, as well as your own user content.
Tags
To help you find the right Preset file quickly and efficiently, the Library implements various
techniques that go far beyond the classic folder structure of your operating system—the usage
of tags. For example, each Preset file included in the Library contains tags which describe the
Preset file according to following aspects:
▪ The content type of the file, i.e. whether it originates from an Instrument’s factory library or
if it was created by a user.
▪ The Instrument that the files comes from—this can include, e.g., a hierarchical structure
with an Instrument category, a particular Instrument, and possibly a Bank of this Instru-
ment.
▪ A variable amount of tags used to describe various characteristics of the file, for example,
the type of effect, the sonic character, the context in which it is used—in a word, anything
that might help you find the file.
Browsing the Library
Browser Basics
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