Using KOMPLETE KONTROL with Ableton | Native Instruments

In this tutorial, we'll teach you how to set up theKomplete Kontrol S-Series Mk2 advanced integration with Ableton Live, and show you how to use the Komplete Kontrol plugin to unlock your keyboard's full potential.

00:00 - Intro
00:56 - Configuring Advanced Integration
01:55 - Advanced Integration with Ableton
08:35 - Using Komplete Kontrol Software
09:30 - Browsing for Instruments
11:04 - Controlling Your Sounds
12:24 - FX in Komplete Kontrol
13:15 - Scales/Chords/Arp Mode
15:10 - Light Guide

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[jennaadams]

Fantastic! Word of warning though. Get a S61 Mk2 with Komplete Standard and wire it up to Ableton and your life is pretty much over. Forget socializing, studying or work. 20 hours a day, falling asleep at the desk. It gets you like that. Forget dusty books on Music Theory. You will learn it all on a wet Sunday morning and with the infinite combination/permutation of samples, it makes it a pleasure.

[roxnroll]

Oh my freaking wow! I was stressing hard trying to figure out how to do the simplest thing. Thankfully, I gave up and jumped on YouTube and found this video!!! I'm gonna rewatch the heck out of this thing until I got it down. Thank you sooo much. I wish ALL companies did video manuals like this.

[Berzrk-Z]

This was so awesome! Thank you so much for the detailed breakdown. I've had the S49 for almost 2 years, but this is the first time I actually feel like I truly learned something and can take the next step in this journey. Thanks again!

[thegeenius]

2 years in-- and Still learned stuff i had overlooked, , thank You so much for taking the time, , -- extra thorough breakdown, , appreciated

[jklappenbach]

Best video I've seen yet on the integration of KK and Live.

THANK YOU!

[pandemic]

This video is long overdue. Thanks, NI!

[alaindubois]

Thanks Brian,

I was about to get Ableton with 'Push'. I've been without a working DAW for over eight months or so. My laptop with Cubase 10.5 had to be repaired around June '21. It came back without Cubase 10.5, and so I took the laptop and a new desktop into a store to get Cubase 11, the s-88 Komplete keyboard and the Native Ultimate Collectors Edition, so I had the most complete selection of sounds, orchestra, ethnic etc with multiple string articulations etc. As I had free assistance with the shop staff two years ago using remote viewing over the phone, I asked if the shop could download the many Gigs of data for all of this, as I live in an area where the Internet goes off with a rainfall.

After nearly three months with the laptop and desktop in the shop, a bill of $480 came for the work done [over the costs for the hardware and software.] I have disabilities and wasn't well enough to do this myself. My computer 'nerd' friends had gone.

I tried to set it up for Christmas, but the heat in Brisbane, Queensland Australia only brings me narcolepsy even with a fan on. When it cooled down, I found I couldn't get all the free VST with Cubase to come up, or get the Komplete instruments up.

With Covid, by new year, I had near zero friends, no-one could handle face-to-face visits etc. Most of my family and friends had died. A friend, by phone, who could sing, said he was interested in music again, but his widow rang me two months after his funeral. I was then stuck in another state on my own, having a second attempt at keeping a class at university before it shut down for Covid, or floods. This year, I had to wait seven days after a second vaccination before they let me on the university grounds.

However, the only course is with Ableton Live. I missed the beginning of the first class and from then on never work out how to assign Push to Ableton, get the second view, etc. etc. Was it Apple or Ableton that was so different in appearance from Cubase.

I have to take in my laptop [ and maybe desktop] computers into the shop again to get Cubase running with the keyboard and UCE. And to keep my university class, I'm buying another laptop with Ableton - but in a different shop. I was about to get a bundle with push. I don't know if I can get a student discount with Push.

And I will also get a new Cubase 12 - without even getting to use Cubase 11. I'm wondering if I can get a third copy of Komplete for this laptop. I have [hopefully] the whole UCE library on a two Terabyte external SSD.

Thanks for showing me the 'simplest' of things - that I could not work out. For example that there is a hidden pulldown forgetting the preferences. The university course tutor would only show us once and just emailed me to say that I had to be attentive in class. I have continuous micro-sleeps, visual difficulties [need the ceiling lights off], am on the autistic spectrum [can't handle one student banging loudly on his Push - it doesn't need such a banging does it?] ADD, PTDS, life-threatening illnesses and I'm 61. The last Covid vaccine has almost made thinking impossible, exacerbating my iatrogenic auto-immune conditions.

I read before Ableton opens that there is a 'help' suggesting that appearance changed can be made to the screen. Another student brings in his PC, and it isn't that plain grey, but a darker colour. In Cubase, I though we could personalise the 'background' colours etc. Does Ableton have something similar. Compared to the appearance of Cubase views, Ableton just looks very grey. For some, colouring various things, such as different tracks in many shades etc. is helpful - when there is an orchestra of instrumentation.

[thepianomandan]

Phenomenal! This cleared up a bunch of questions I had. It makes it easier and more diggestible. Thanks.

[goodgrass]

Hi Komplete Kontrol M DAW is not on the midi input option. Appreciate your help.

[ohheyitskevinc]

Great for DAWs and Komplete Kontrol (and to a certain extent - Kontakt too), but as an actual MIDI keyboard controller for external gear - it's kinda useless unless you trick it. For example - Arp and Chord modes are disabled over MIDI - you can only access them with the KK software open. Unlike say a Keystep Pro where you just "plug it in". You can just about get around it by opening the DAW then opening KK software with no instrument loaded on whatever track, set the KK hardware as midi out in the DAW, then route MIDI from the DAW via an external MIDI controller to the external hardware and route the audio from that back into another track... it shouldn't be this hard when there's literally a MIDI port on the back. Even using the 15v power with MIDI - it's just a basic keyboard with mod and pitch wheels when used with external gear.

[narajanlive]

you can also use tab when switching from clip to arrangement view :)

[AlanWade-vbxb]

An authoritative breakdown, thank you.

[FintanMoloney]

Learned a huge amount to get started on with this video. All of my early questions were answered here. Pretty much all of this applies to other Komplete Kontrol keyboards also (including those with the mini screens)

[wolfganglahmann]

Very helpful, thanks so much. Keep these videos coming!

[Jefuslives]

I wish I'd looked harder before going with Nektar (which i have since returned due to hardware failure). Subsequently started using Novation, but I might just get one if these should i find myself in need of another controller setup. Great stuff!

[pozzarefds]

could you do an update for ableton live 12, seems a lot has changed and cannot get it to work with my S61 MK2

[TheFoo_Fighter]

In case you read this, NI, for the next Kontrol keyboards I would greatly appreciate drum pads on the keyboard and sliders together with knobs to have more options for adjustments.

Maybe you could also recreate the different weights of the keys on your next keyboard?

[artwizervision]

Красавелла!Наконецто я подрасчехлился)Благодарю)

[smartpower]

Can you do this with Ableton 12 on windows as the menus are different

[Kirikoexplores]

Hello I got to around 2:48 and when I click on the Kontakt plug in there’s no instruments in the library. How do I download them?