Native Instruments releases KOMPLETE KONTROL 1.5 update with NKS® integration and S88 keyboard
Native Instruments today announced a number of new developments to their KOMPLETE KONTROL product family – the integrated production system based on the S-Series keyboards. Version 1.5 of the KOMPLETE KONTROL software adds Native Kontrol Standard™, an extended plug-in format allowing third-party instruments to achieve the same deep integration previously only reserved for KOMPLETE Instruments.
VST support lets KOMPLETE KONTROL owners load and play their entire software instrument collection. And KOMPLETE KONTROL S88 is a new keyboard for composers, performers, and pianists with 88 fully weighted, hammer-action keys. The KOMPLETE KONTROL 1.5 software update and KOMPLETE KONTROL S88 will be available on October 27, 2015.
KOMPLETE KONTROL 1.5 offers a major development in Native Kontrol Standard (NKS) – an extended plug-in format that opens up the KOMPLETE KONTROL system. NKS allows VST and KONTAKT instrument developers to integrate their plug-ins with KOMPLETE KONTROL and MASCHINE hardware and software at the same deep level as KOMPLETE Instruments.
Instrument developers can use Native Map to create detailed parameter mappings for the eight controller knobs on the S-Series keyboards or MASCHINE. NKS instruments can also access the Light Guide, so that third-party instruments can display key switches and sample assignments, for example. NKS also allows plug-ins to access the Smart Play features in the KOMPLETE KONTROL software – including the touch strips, scale mapping, Chord Sets, and the powerful arpeggiator.