[RELEASE] 3rd Party VST NKS Preset Libraries for Komplete \ Maschine

Yes thanks for that

 

It’s also done

 

Now Available

Plugin Boutique Carbon Electra


Fully tagged by hand with detailed tagging, banks, detailed controller map covering all controls logically grouped, previews, artwork etc.

Plugin Boutique Virtual CZ


Fully hand tagged and includes a very extensive controller map that covers both the ADSR and MSEG methods of sound design. Since the MSEG is probably more for the hardcore designers it has been placed after the more common controls and results in close to 30 pages of parameters but all tweakable controls should be there to get your hands dirty.

 

For those that have been asking and for those interested in what is coming in the following months, here is a shortlist of plugins and libraries I have on the todo list. When exactly these will be available I have no idea, it depends on motivation and how easy/time consuming each one is and if they are even possible as some (UVI I am looking at you) are kind of painful to process and tag when most the tagging needs to be done by hand but this is what I have to do in the list which will be done hopefully over the next 3 months:

Bass Engine 2
Cherry Audio Surrealistic MG-1
Cherry Audio Polymode Synth
Eventide Quadravox (effect)
Initial Audio Sektor Expansions
Orb Synth New VST
Omnisphere Libraries "The Unfinished" full collection
Plugin Boutique Big Kick
Roland Cloud (some instruments processed and working for PC only atm)
Softube Monument Bass
Softube Parallels
Sonivox Stratum
SubLab
Synthmaster New Expansions to process
TAL J8
TAL Sampler
Tone2 Rayblaster Expansions
UVI Drum Designer
UVI Falcon Expansion Lofi Dreams
UVI Falcon Expansion Savage
UVI Falcon Expansion Voklm
UVI Gypsy Jazz Library
UVI PX Memories
Wiggle VST

There are always other instruments that users bring to my attention or I stumble across that may be given priority so this isn't a definitive list of exactly what will be done, just what I have on hand that is still logged to be processed.

 

Hmm. I've re-downloaded the Pigments Expansion twice and still shows the P1 macros on the second page.

 

please download and test again. Appears I may not have uploaded the pigment library. Have just checked it my end and updated the zip again so let me know if it is now showing macro controls on page 1

 

Yup. That fixed it. Thanx.

Cheers, mate.

 

As of Softube product, that would be great to add those 2:
- Statement Lead
- Model 72 Synthesizer System

For UVI, they UI is awful, and apparently their Library looks to be the same. but def if you're brave enough I would propose to add the Sound Fx section like :
- Xtreme FX
- SweepMachine
- Meteor
- Scratch
- Whoosh

Looking forward seeing what's new from you Jason !

 

Yeah I don't enjoy the UVI browser at all. It's more clunky than Kontakt, hence why I have created NkS for almost all the UVI collection.

SweepMachine is already done:
https://freelancesoundlabs.com/inde...ine-nks-library-for-komplete-kontrol-maschine

I have Scratch, had it for some time, but it's just a simple sample player bt I do have it on the list to process as well, just not immediately. The others are on my "wishlist" but so far down mainly because I do not personally desire more sweep/swell VSTs since I tend to make my own sounds for that anyway.

 

Wish for G-Force M-Tron Pro.......

 

It's been asked for but the expansions are the issue, too costly for all of them for me. I think it's around $500 USD for the full collection and I personally don't have enough interest in it for that. I have reached out to Gforce several times but without any reply so it is on the wishlist already, just very low unless I can get a bit better of a deal, not something I will ever use myself.

 

I have a few requests, if it would be possible.
Would it be possible to make Superior Drummer 3//Ev Slate Drums 5 accessible? Addictive drums is great, but having the options is also amazing.
I also would love more guitar amp sims, whether they would be Amplitube or Neural DSP amps.
One question about Addictive Drums products: on the ADPAKS with multiple kicks/snares, (or on some universal presets), would it be possible to create some sort of NKS control that cycles between the different kicks/snare, sort of like what the prevSound and NextSound controls do in the play series? Thanks!

 

It may be possible but I would need to invest in that line of products and also in the expansions... this is where the real killer lies, many of these drum plugins are designed so that you end up investing hundreds in the expansion kits. I personally own EZDrummer and a few expansions but out of the 10 expansion kits I have I really only use the same 3 kits. mostly the acoustic ones as the digital kits (IMO) sound like trash and I much prefer making my own. So investing ion this isn't something i'm personally keen on but if there is a sale and the price is OK then I may consider it but I wouldn't count on it since I use mostly Ableton Push with custom coloured pad templates for drums, keyboards aren't good for doing the drums.

Nope. There is no "magic" in nKS in how it works. It can only control parameters that are opened for Host Automation, so only the same controls that a DAW can access. Most plugins do not offer control over the sample selectors probably because sometimes there can be a lot of samples or it is never assumed to be useful to automate, so if you cannot map that parameter in a DAW, nothing can be done and for the blind users I try and map every useful feature like this, if it hasn't been added it probably can't be.

 

That makes sense. That's the only unfortunate part that money is ALWAYS going to be an issue when it comes to this type of stuff. Would love if there could be some sort of discount for these sorts of projects, but I understand that this stuff can pose a problem. I'm still investing in the NKS (and NKS pack ecosystem, so for other stuff besides the stuff I listed) I'm quite content with what I have (or will get in the future).

 

TAL J8 Feedback Needed
So I have been in contact with Patrik who is the developer for TAL about his suggestions for mapping the J8 plugin for KK and what he would think would be the best way but he wasn't really able to offer anything as he isn't quite sure how he would approach it either.

The problem to solve is what is important to a user to access most because the J8 plugin has 2 separate layers which you can either switch between or play in unison. Some presets only use the Upper layer, some use both in unison and some you can switch layers on the fly to change the sound type. So this is 3 different modes of play over 2 layers and I need to design 1 template (ideally) that covers ALL of this PLUS offers access to all parameters logically for blind users.

I have already tested things and there is no issue in mapping, I can map everything needed but here is what I mean by an issue:
The first common parameter I personally like access too after volume is filter. There is a LPF and a VCF for both layers and if I map things for layer 1 then layer 2 you would have to tab through 10 pages between filter controls so if you want to do a filter sweep, you need access to 2 filters on 2 layers.

However if I add the main filter/reso controls on a single page for both L1/L2 this fixes that but if done for every control makes using a single layer preset rather bloated with controls that do not apply to that layer. i may need to somehow create a hybrid where filter and envelopes are all merged in the first pages but mod/osc/fx are then listed by upper layer first then lower... Really not sure as yet.

This is the conundrum I am often faced with when dealing with multi-layered instruments and the fact 30% want compact performance controls, 30% want full featured sound design controls, 30% need every single available control and 10%% have no clue at all.

Basically looking for any input people that use this plugin have on what they feel, I could make different templates and detect what kind of preset is loaded and assign a performance/dual preset but this complicates things if you then want to design a sound or update templates down the road. I'd like to keep a single template if possible.

Whatever is released, if anyone has suggestions after the fact I can always update the template.

 

I just bought the addictive drums nks preset but I can't seem to get the vst to be recognized by komplete kontrol. Anyone else having this problem?

 

Os?

when you say you can’t get the VST recognized, what error/issue do you see?

is the VST listed under preferences > plugins?

 

I'm on mac mojave. When I try to click on the Addictive drums 2 preset within komplete kontrol it says plugin not found. I have KK scanning the vst library that AD2 is in and all the other plugins work fine it's just everything from XLN audio is missing. AD2 comes up fine in Ableton but not in the KK browser. I've rescanned and it didn't fix this issue.

 

If the plugin is not listed under Pref . plugins then it wont work until you resolve that.

My guess is you have the AU plugin version of AD installed, you need the VST2 version installed so check that

 

New NKS Libraries Available

Cherry Audio MG-1 Plus

All controls and presets mapped. Pretty straightforward.

Cherry Audio Polymode

This has quite a bucket load of parameters which I have mostly mapped with the exception of the mod controls for every parameter. This is possible and I will consider updating this template if there is interest but it would add another 10 pages I reckon so it would really have to be worth it to people, I am not usually interested in the mod side.

TAL Audio J-8

This was quite a challenge and took a bit to design a good template. I put the word out about feedback but received no answers so I have done what I feel would be useful. Because there are the 2 layers that make up a sound I decided to group controls together from both layers so for instance adjusting the filter can be done for both layers from one page. Will consider updating this if anyone has any better suggestions.

TAL Audio Sampler

This has been on the todo list for some time but due to an issue where samples were stored in the NKS preset as a "hard coded" path it was never possible. The dev has managed to address this issue which should now make this work but please download the test first and ensure it does and report any issue you have. You need to be running the latest version of TAL Sampler 3.3.2 for this to work