#NATIVE INSTRUMENT KONTAKT HOW TO#
#NATIVE INSTRUMENT KONTAKT SERIES#

That means that they recorded the drum being hit very hard, with a lot of velocity, so it’s going to have one kind of sound and one kind of timbre, and they also have ones that have medium velocity level, and then a quieter one. Let’s say I’ve got a snare drum here, and the good thing about these samples that come with the Paul Maybury library is they have multiple velocity levels.

#NATIVE INSTRUMENT KONTAKT HOW TO#

However, if you’re the kind of person that prefers to work with MIDI rather than pre-recorded drums, or if you like to work with Kontakt instead of Trigger, then what I’m going to show you how to do is how to create a virtual instrument in Kontakt for triggering these samples. So you can go in here and load up, if you have Trigger, one of these presets in order to trigger the wav files. He also has some presets for the plug-in from Steven Slate drums, called Trigger. For instance, the Paul Maybury library, he’s got all of the wav files in here too that you can trigger. So you can drag and drop those in the same way.īut not all libraries have those Kontakt instruments built.

Or, what you can do is also go in, and he’s also got the Kontakt instruments built where you have a kit that has kick drum, snare drum, toms, hi-hat, cymbals, and so on. They’re already laid out across the keyboard like this.Īnd I get all the different samples like that. For instance, I like to use Kontakt as my sampler, so I could go in and if I’m just looking for an instrument that has a bunch of hi-hats, I can drag and drop this one in, and I can trigger these. He has all the wav files included, and you can trigger these if you want, or you can go in to the presets here. For instance, with Dustin Burnett, I can go in here. Now, some of their libraries come with instrument presets. Stop by their website if you’re looking for top quality samples. Here, I’m going to be working with the drum samples from the company, “I Want That Sound.” These guys have put together some awesome collections of drum samples in various different styles. In this video, I’ll be demonstrating how you can use a sampler like Kontakt to create your own virtual instruments that trigger one shot samples that have multiple velocity samples in either a round robin or random order.

#NATIVE INSTRUMENT KONTAKT SERIES#

This is part one of a two part video series on using Kontakt with one shot samples and loops.

Native instrument kontakt