How to use Kontakt in Cakewalk by Bandlab (2020)
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- Опубликовано: 1 апр 2020
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In this video I show you how to use Kontakt in Cakewalk by Bandlab in 2020! I also give a basics up explanation of how things work, and delve into more complex implementations.
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100% excellent Kontakt instruction tutorial. For the beginner this is like walking blindfold through a minefield with one leg tied behind your back. But your clear, concise instructions are a light in that darkness. Many of us would simply give up if we couldn`t find our way. Thank you.
Mate, you are an astonishing teacher. And believe me, I am a history and geography french high school teacher in Québec (that's why my ortograph in english is bad). So, I know about teaching. I've been using Sonar 8.5 producer edition for 15 years and Cakewalk by BandLab for 2 months and I feel like a beginner. You are making me a better user of this incredible free DAW. Thanks, thank you, thanks a lot. You are a great teacher. I feel like I'm having a 10 000$ formation for free. You are amazing.
Thank you so much for that wonderful compliment Claude! Very much appreciated.
Brilliant, thanks Mike!
1:00 The Goal
2:46 The Basics
3:12, 3:24 Don't copy this method. MIDI doesn't make any sound.
4:18 Add Kontakt plugin with the Synth Rack (Alt-9)
5:20 There's no sound so we need to connect it to audio in Cakewalk.
6:25 The MIDI track still has no sound so we have to connect the MIDI track to Kontakt
7:24 Common Methods. Add Kontakt with a MIDI Source and First Synth Audio Output
8:16 Getting them all in one block. Add Kontakt with Simple Instrument Track
9:45 Simple Instrument Tracks - lots of instances of them. But it uses up a lot of system resources - For every 3 instances of Kontakt we use about 1GB of memory.
11:15 2019 Method - Don't copy this
He had a load of MIDI tracks relating to the MIDI element of the tracks. But it creates a lot of spaghetti with connections.
12:26 Preparation
Have your Cakewalk up to date.
Add an instance of Kontakt. Open Kontakt and double click to add empty instruments. Name each instrument.
13:58 Outputs view.
Select Batch Functions > Clear output section...
Save current output section state... > VST plugin.
15:15 2020 Method
15:35 Add Kontakt with Instrument Track Per Output, with Stereo Audio Outputs.
Delete any of the many new tracks created which you don't need.
17:32 Change 2nd instrument's output to number 2. Do the same for further instruments and give them their own outputs.
18:30 Preferred 2020 Method
For if you've got enough memory to spare.
Using 3 instances of Kontakt, one instance for each category of instrument. Helps you keep organised, not totally necessary and it uses a little more resources but not as much as multiple simple instrument tracks.
Great content as always Mike, thanks! Something to be aware of for folks trying this with newer Cakewalk/Kontakt. I did this in January 2024 with Cakewalk 2023.09 (Build 75) and Kontakt 7 and found that I needed to perform one additional step. When adjusting the outputs on the various Kontakt instruments being loaded for the song, I found it necessary to also adjust the midi input channel. Started with midi chan 1 and just incremented by one for each instrument, same as with the outputs. If I didn't do this all instruments were set to midi chan 1 and they all played at once during performance or playback. Love Mikes content and the way he explains this stuff has allowed me to learn to use a DAW in 2024!
Really appreciate you posting this.
I've had versions of Cakewalk for years but just recently got Kontakt 7. The only way I knew how to use it was to create multiple instances of Kontakt for each instrument. This video helped me with correcting that and your comment was the finishing touch.
Now to get to my computer and see how I get along. Thanks man.
This may be my favorite RUclips channel. You are a natural teacher.
Thank you for clearing this up as it makes Kontakt so much more useful in a Cakewalk Project. In 2021 you can control how many outputs Cakewalk creates in the dialog box on the bottom right. Uncheck max outputs and name your number. That alleviates the deletions. Brilliant work! Very Grateful.🙏🙂
I've seen a couple of your videos now, and you do a great job of simplifying complicated subjects. Well done!
Holy smoke, this is actually so convoluted way to get sound out!
Thanks for the instructions, but brutal!
Once again, Mike, you made something complex understandable by showing not just "how to do it", but "why" and "options". Thanks!
Thanks Mike...for your crystal-clear explanations! Because of your videos, I'm using Cakewalk with a lot more confidence than I would have had otherwise. You've taken it from frustrating to fun!
Thanks Mike for this very good tutorial. I was struggling with Kontakt into Cakewalk for several years and now I feel you gave me the right medecine to be in better shape. Your videos are very useful. Thanks again.
Wow! Been scratching my head how to use pads of my controller with kontakt. You just solved my problem immediately. You are so good at this! Keep up the great work! Much appreciated!
Mike, thanks again for another incredible video. The info is spot on and equally important, the pace is not too quick, allowing the viewer time to actually absorb all this good stuff. Keep it up.
I've saved your entire Record, Mix, Release series into my Home Recording playlist, as well as many more of your videos. This is exactly what I need to be able to start gaining an understanding of all this... stuff. Very well done, thank you so much, from the greater Pittsburgh area.
Awesome video -- loving how you so calmly stroll through connection problems that drive us content creators crazy: keep up the great work and thanks!
This has helped me enormously as I use Kontakt quite a bit. Thank you for this video and all the Cakewalk ones. As an amateur/tinkering musician, your help has been invaluable :)
Thanks again Mike for an awesome video, clear concise and with background as to why not to do something as well as what to do. You've saved me a ton of RAM when working on projects which is great as I'm about to start some orchestral pieces and those are probably going to have a LOT of tracks.
Thank you so much for your content. I know it takes a lot of work to put these together and you do a great job of just the nuts and bolts of creating a RUclips video. I am 61 and new to all of this digital music production. After exploring many different DAWs and not interested in spending much money just yet, Cakewalk is where I am going to focus for a while. Your videos are a huge help! Showing various ways to setup Kontakt was helpful to get a bigger picture of how things can be "wired up" in the program.
Hi William, thanks for watching. Yes, I think Cakewalk is an awesome way to find out if this is something you will really get into. Many decide to stick with it as their main DAW, as its very powerful, others may decide on something else. I also use Studio ONE, and I'll be doing some videos on that soon.
I cannot thank you enough for all the work you do, Mike. These videos are life-savers!!! 😃😃😃
I just wanted to let you know that this video is still helping people in 2022 - I've just used it to properly set up Kontakt player in Cakewalk and you made everything so easy. Thank you for all your videos!
Thorough and clearly explained, thank you!
Great walkthrough Mike. Love yer work! :)
Mike another great video. Thanks for sharing this with all of us and its great to see how other people setup their work flow.
Great job as usual. Thanks, Mike!
This is GOLD. Thanks Mike.
Many thanks Mike - I finally got Kontakt to work with Cakewalk after watching your video
Mike I love your tutorials. Keep doing' like this. Many help and inspiration is coming to me by your videos. I appreciate your effort to do kind of this work. Thank you for this!
One of the most productive 20 minutes!
This is the best video I've seen on the subject of Kontakt inside Cakewalk. Thank you!
Thank you David!
I mean ALL KUDOS to you Mike as you are thee VERY 1st person I've ever come across on the tube who has taken the time to explain the critical foundations of the whole DAW/MIDI production process and that's priceless IMHO with things further down the track. I'm COMPLETELY new to Music Production but am proficient with electronics and fashion design and with the latter if you DON'T understand just WHY you have to draft a dart or curve in a certain way with a clothing pattern then you'll rarely be able to be diverse with your own designs down the track. The same here with music, I need to reverse engineer ANYTHING to understand it in order to move forward and excel. I highly suspect that some producers do not have the foundations knowledge that you so graciously explain here but I stand to be corrected. Far too many "tutorials" are rushed, jumbled, confusing and frustrating. What you've presented here is TOP NOTCH and like I say thee very first channel I've come across to teach skills and understanding that are quite unique on these forums ✌️ I'll step down off my praise soap box ✌️ Thursday Greets Mike from Middle Earth 🙃
Bro!! Soooo helpful, please keep the Cakewalk content coming. Love these vids 🔥
God bless you! I am a newbie and learning a lot from you. Thanks a million!
SO much chaff online, but you're the wheat, Mike!
Not only clear and concise, but inspirational, too. I've used Cakewalk since it was a 'midi sequencer' (back in the Stone Age), but I've avoided Kontakt like a pandemic. No more!
Thanks Mike. Brilliant explanation.
First time viewer, loved it. Really answered my questions very well. Well done sir, look fwd to seeing more.
Finally the mysteries of Kontakt are revealed to me! thanks
Great video from you as always - very helpful and explained very well.
Until today I avoided to work with Kontakt, but NI's Noire has changed that. This video is the perfect primer to use Kontakt in CbB, just what I needed. Thanks a lot, Mike.
This video allowed me to start my Kontakt relationship. Thanks a lot Mike! Greetings from Lima.
Perfect ! Exactly what I was desparatly looking for
Mike your videos are awesome!
loud and crystal clear . thank you so much.
Great presentation ! The most logical way ! My eyes are now wide open ! Thank you !
Thank you, glad you enjoyed!
Once again, great timely delivery of info. Thanks.
Good to hear Chris! Thanks for watching :)
Very helpful video. I just subscribed to see more. Thank you!
Man, you are a genius!! Thank you so much, mate :)
What a fantastic video. I watch every one that you do and they are all so informative. Thank you.
Oh cheers Barry - people like you are the best, very much appreciated!
Thank you, you have helped me through out so much with these videos!
Yes, the method you've chosen is the most logical. Now there is the correspondence between Cakewalk tracks and Kontakt tracks that is a great boon to sound processing.) Well done Mike!
Perfect timing Mike! Love your videos
Cheers Derryl!
Other awesome video, 20 minutes, and, puuuf! doubts away. Impressive.
I did have a ressources problem, thanks so much for this great content.
Dear Sr. you are absolutely great, your tutorials are the best. Thanks a lot for your time and gifted mind for making this really useful. Regards from Portugal.
You just solved a boat load of problems for me, thank you 😊
Awesome!
I'm a bit late finding this video, but what a great video. I have thought for ages there must be a way of loading instruments in to Kontakc and playing them separately but never been able to figure out how to do it. Once more Creative Sauce to the rescue! Cheers. Mike.
Bless you for explaining MIDI as "sheet music" for the computer to read (and make sound with)! I am autistic and possess (I think) perfect pitch.
But I'm musically illiterate. I can't read or write sheets.
I composed my first song at the age of about 7 with my mom writing down the notes I played on the piano.
It was a smashing success, won school awards, and I was told I should be a composer.
Fast-forward to now. I'm older, I have attempted to learn music theory, but... due to some life circumstances, my efforts came to a halt.
I have recently gotten into Cakewalk and decided that, rather than strengthening my weaknesses to read traditional music, I'm going to utilize the strengths I was born with, my perfect pitch, and attempt and make music, digitally.
I was VERY confused by the terms "MIDI" and "MIDI controller", so your explanation was beyond valuable.
hey! Well done !!!!! This was super helpful!!11 Much Appreciated dude!!!
Fantastic Mike TY did not know !
Hello from NY! Thank you so much for covering this topic. I have the free version of Kontakt 6 with Cakewalk 2021-Build144. You made this so very understandable. I appreciate you taking the time for this. Bless you in your endeavours.
So much great instruction crammed into 20 minutes....brilliant! Subscribe button hit!
More,more,more tutorials like that.Thanks a lot. 😊 👏
I will try Marek - thanks for watching!
Excellent video regarding Kontakt!!
Another great one Mike. Thank you
Thank you Roy - my pleasure :)
Bravo Mike. Just started watching your videos on youtube. They're great! Thank you... been needing this sort of approach to learning about what the heck i'm doing out here in the MIDI zone. LOL... Thanks to you, I'm finding out. Gracias Muchos !
Same here lol, I thought it'd be quick and relatively easy to setup cakewalk and konkakt instruments but NOPE.
Perfect... just what i needed... love your channel :)
Aw3some man, glad it's of use :)
Excellent and very informative
Great tutorial; keep up the good work 😎🔥
Thank you. It helped a lot.
This change is Yuuuge! Thanks for showing us Mike! Sub'd.
Cheers Victor - glad it helped :)
Thanks Man! Another useful video 😊
Excellent Mr CS.
Very helpfull tutorial!
Thank you for this.
Si me quedo con Cakewalk es por estos tutoriales... y la comunidad que has creado entorno al daw. saludos desde Canarias Gracias
Thank you sooo much for this!
Thank you very much. It's a great trick for everyone!!!
Good video, make's things understandeble, thanxs
Thanks a lot for this excelente video.
Love to see a video like this using Sample Tank 4 Max.
Thank you so much. This is a lot of help.
Awesome cheers Eric!
Wonderful video, wonderful channel! :)
Thank you, you're very kind.
Really good explenation
great! big thanks!
Very helpful thanks
Thanks Again Mike that made a lot of sense this time round, been struggling with it. Maybe I will go buy an upgraded version of Kontakt now they should pay you for this stuff.
Thanks Mike... just "saved my life"... ;-)
Excellent!
Thank you!
Super Cool.......... Thanks so much
Mike, this helped a great deal. I was using Kontakt and having to route my outputs every time I added an instrument based on what sound I thought I needed. This method, allows me to add from 1 up to 16 instruments on a separate channel in Cakewalk. I did notice, however, that after adding each instrument to Kontakt, that I have to change the Midi out on each instrument, but I don't mind at all This is great and it will always be ready for use. Maybe I will save Track Templates with different instruments for various genres of music like, Orchestral, Jazz, Pop, R&B and so on....
Good idea Ernest!
wowwwwwwwwwwwwwww Excelenteee ! mil gracias !!
Thank you so much, this is the tutorial I have been looking for the past week. Every other tutorials gloss over this and have it already set up and I was just about to give up hope until you popped up. You're awesome. I'm looking forward to creating my masterpieces now which have only ever lived inside my head.
So glad it was helpful :) Thanks for watching!
Hi Mike, I thought I would have a go at Kontakt, so I downloaded the free version. I followed your instructions for the 2020 version but with the new version of CbB (Version: 2020.04 (Build 179)) in the "Insert Soft Synths Options" there is now the option to add the number of tracks you need for an instance of Kontakt (say 3 for strings, 3 for brass and so on). So you may not need to do the "Preparation" any more and have 32 tracks come up when you load an instance of Kontakt. I also tried this on a few other VSTi's but that didn't work except for a couple of drums synths, EZ Drummer and Session Drummer by Cakewalk. It may work on other drums, I don't know. Funny what you can find out when you've got time on your hands. Keep up the good work.
Would be really interested to see a video on pitch-bends and dynamic changes to pre-existing MIDI track with Kontakt in cakewalk.
Really helpful. So far I didn't use Kontakt but I think it may be worth to try ... :-)
Definately!
What a great job Bandlab AND you did on this difficult subject (Kontakt)! Thank you so much!
So glad you enjoyed, cheers!
you are the best my friend ;) regardsssss
hehe - thank you!
Thanks a lot...
Mike, this is great stuff. If only there were screenshots that I could print it would be simpler to set things up. Just the simpler preferred version would be great. Thanks for your help. Arne
Hi Mike . Big thumbs up from me too- this was really helpful. Any chance you could do some more on Cakewalk and Kontakt / Komplete Kontrol etc. - how to use MIDI keyboards in general and the NI A and Series in particular. I know the full integration with A series isn't there yet, - but it would be really helpful to see how to set up to get the basics working. Playing in MIDI parts and automation etc. Everything I've found on the web assumes the basics are already working!
Thanks in advance and hope. Look forward to your next video.
Thanks Mike - that was really useful. I'd notice CbB had this as a new feature but didn't fully understand the benefits. Better get on with creating those 16 outputs :-)
Yes, no excuses now Joe!
@@CreativeSauce Done! Had to watch the video again and make notes though :-)
Excellent video! Thank you. I've just bought Kontact and other Native Instruments Plug ins and this has helped me tremendously. Do the other NI instruments work in a similar way?