



This isn’t just top-level integration either, it allows deep parameter mappings, access to the keyboards’ Light Guide (to display key switches and sample assignments), use of the Smart Play features like the arpeggiator, touch strips, scale mapping, and more. This is the big news in this 1.5 update – Native Instruments is opening up their plug-in format to allow VST / Kontakt instrument developers to integrate their devices with both Komplete Kontrol and Maschine hardware/software. There’s a Control Panel in the 1.5 update that allows custom parameter mappings to the keyboard hardware, meaning that you can set presets for a live performance with a VST instrument. One of the biggest issues with the Komplete Kontrol software has been a dependency on NI’s own instruments, but now the software allows VSTs to be used as well. Plus, there’s a new 88-key version of the keyboard! With a new update to the Komplete Kontrol software, producers can use their own VST instruments and developers can build native versions of their instruments with a new format. The Komplete Kontrol-S keyboards have been on the market for a while now, but excitingly Native Instruments has continued to build up a software-side system that supports the line and makes it even more powerful.
