Converting a Kontakt Instrument to Play with a Roli Seaboard MPE Controller

[IceLocus]

Excuse my excited nerdiness, but I just figured out how to take modify a Kontakt instrument to be playable on a Seaboard. It’s super easy, you just have to create a multi-instrument with several duplicate instances on your single Kontakt instrument, all on different MIDI channels. In my case, I took my Millpot DroneSpace sound and modified it such that the key glide controls the filter cutoff frequency and I cranked up the pitch bend. So now each note has independent pitch bend and filter controls. It’s so much fun! Here’s a link of some one hand seaboard mashing I just did this evening on my drone sound.

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I just discovered how to convert a @nativeinstruments Kontakt instrument into an MPE instrument that I can play on my @we.are.roli Seaboard!!! Each key has individual pitch bend and also independent frequency cutoff controls on a low pass filter. I'm just randomly one-hand key mashing while holding a sustain pedal here (my left hand was holding the phone 😅). I created this drone sound from the sampled sounds of a milling machine and a pot lid & wooden spoon that I posted earlier. Oh boy, the sonic possibilities!!! 🤓🎧🌌🌌. . . #roli #seaboardrise #mpe #drone #sounddesign #nerdingfortheweekend #Kontakt #sampling #synth #icelocus @spitfireaudio #spitfiremmd2020 #pianobook

A post shared by Ice Locus (@icelocus) on Jun 20, 2020 at 4:32pm PDT

[darko kutchutozov]

OMG get out of my head! Wanted one so bad till I just saw the experssive e “osmose” .. Same thing tho , imagine controlling xfades on string samples etc … I want it so bad!

[IceLocus]

Darko, I just checked out that keyboard you’re taking about. It looks pretty cool, but I should look away before I blow all my money on gear. Hahaha!

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