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Kontrol Keyboard Settings

If you press the Settings button (the button one down from the top in the column of buttons next to the display screen) you will move into a set of pages that allow you to configure how you want your Kontrol keyboard to behave. You may not go to the first page of settings when you press the Settings button, as the keyboard remembers the last page that you interacted with.

Buttons 1 and 2 (the two left-most buttons above the display screen) will move you from one page to another. The functions of the rest of the Buttons and Knobs will change from page to page, so it is a good idea to make use of Training Mode or the Accessibility Helper window to discover what each control does within each page.

If you are on the first page and press Button 1, you will hear “Previous Hardware disabled” to inform you that there is no previous page. Similarly, if you are on the License page and you press Button 2, you will hear “License disabled” to indicate that there is no next page.

We will not cover all of the available settings in this guide (refer to the Kontrol S-Series Mk3 manual for a full description of all of the options), but we will note some settings that might be of immediate use.

The Hardware Settings Page

This page sets up how the Kontrol keyboard’s Light Guide LED indicators work and how MIDI data is handled. If you have some vision, the Light Guide LED settings might prove to be useful:

  • Knob 1 sets the Light Guide LED brightness.

  • Knob 3 sets the default Light Guide LED colour.

  • Knob 5 turns the Light Guide on or off.

  • Knob 7 adjusts the brightness of the screen display.

The Keybed Page

  • Knob 1 adjusts the velocity curve to match your playing style. The default value is “Linear”, but turning the knob anti-clockwise increases the sensitivity of the keyboard to velocity and turning it clockwise decreases the sensitivity.

  • Knob 5 changes the kind of aftertouch that the keyboard will transmit. The default is “Polyphonic”, meaning that each note on the keyboard can transmit an aftertouch value that is not affected by the aftertouch generated by any other keys being played. Turning the knob anti-clockwise will allow you to set the aftertouch to be “Monophonic”, where all keys apply the same amount of aftertouch, or “Off”, where the keyboard won’t transmit aftertouch messages at all. Turning the knob clockwise will go back through these options. - Knob 6 adjusts the sensitivity curve for the aftertouch.

  • Knob 6 adjusts the sensitivity of the aftertouch.

  • Knob 7 adjusts the threshold value for the aftertouch.

  • Knob 8 adjusts the delay for the aftertouch.

The Access MIDI Template Page

We will cover the use of MIDI templates later in this guide. If this is the first time you have interacted with the Settings pages you should notice that all of the Buttons and Knobs are identified as “unassigned”.

The General Page

  • Button 8 allows you to reset all of the settings back to the factory defaults. If you press this button, you will be prompted to either press Button 7 to cancel the operation, or to press Button 8 to continue.

Usage Data Page

  • Knob 1 allows you to turn anonymous data tracking on or off (it is on by default). Check the main manual for more information on this topic.

License Page

  • Knob 1 allows you to choose which license information that you want to review (there are different licenses for different parts of the system).

  • Knob 8 scrolls through the chosen license.

Once you have set all of your preferences to be the way that you want them to be, just press the Settings Button again to return to normal operation – your changes will be automatically saved.