Click OK to close the MIDI Devices screen.

Under MIDI-OX’s Options > MIDI Devices, choose Komplete Kontrol – 1 for MIDI Input and Komplete Kontrol EXT-1 for MIDI output (Fig.

After the keyboard boots, open MIDI-OX.

Mac users, please feel free to comment below about what does and does not work with the Mac. Once you get it installed, it should work similarly to MIDI-OX if you choose Komplete Kontrol S-Series Port 1 for the MIDI input option (and consider that equivalent to Komplete Kontrol -1 in the following description), and choose Komplete Kontrol S-Series Port 2 for the MIDI output option (it should work similarly to Komplete Kontrol EXT-1, below). You can try using it with pre-Catalina systems if Apple’s Gatekeeper blocks the installation, you’ll need to allow it under Security & Privacy. This is similar to MIDI-OX, but hasn’t been updated since 2008, and system requirements stop at Mac OS X 10.14. This utility is key to letting us re-direct the MIDI messages at the Komplete keyboard’s external output to Studio One.įor Macs running Catalina, I currently don’t know of any way to use the MIDI Patchbay utility. But wouldn’t it be great to be able to use the Komplete keyboard’s control surface with non-NKS instruments, and even effects, in Studio One over USB? Well, you can.įor Windows, install MIDI-OX. With a live rig, this makes sense for use with a DAW, you have the NKS spec communicating over USB.

In theory, Komplete Kontrol’s MIDI control surface application is only for stand-alone use, and requires using both an external power supply and the keyboard’s 5-pin DIN MIDI connectors for I/O.

In Part 1 (“ A New Hope”) of the NI Kontroller trilogy, we covered how to integrate the DAW functions from Native Instruments’ Komplete Kontrol keyboards with Studio One.

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