MacProVideo – Native Instruments 205: Advanced Kontakt (TUTORIAL)

By | November 16, 2025

 

Developer: MacPROvideo
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Course Language: English
Format: MOV
Quality: Video Codec: AVC. Video: 879 Kbps/1280×720 pixels/16:9/15,000 fps. Audio: AAC/160 Kbps/2 channels/44.1 KHz


In this course, Scott Freiman explains how to use the Kontakt sampler to create and modify your own sounds, new instruments, and the complex use of effects. Special attention is paid to the Beat Machine and Time Machine tools for creating multi-layered rhythmic parts and the new AET (Authentic Expression Technology). In this video tutorial, composer and sound designer Scott Freiman goes deep into Native Instruments’ powerful Kontakt 4 sampler to show you how to create and modify your own sounds. Building on the material taught in Native Instruments 105: Exploring Kontakt, Scott covers the numerous sound sculpting features of Kontakt.

The course consists of 46 lessons :

1: Introduction
01. Overview of the Course
02. Structure of An Instrument
03. Signal Flow
04. Modulators and Scripts
05. Before We Begin

2: Groups and Zones
06. Our First Instrument.
07. Adding More Samples
08. More About the Mapping Editor
09. Loading Multiple Samples Simultaneously
10. Introduction to Groups
11. Automap
12.More Automapping
13. The Monitor Tab
14. Exporting and Importing Groups
15. Group Start Options
16. More About Groups and Zones
17. Voice Groups
18. Review – Creating “Cello Shimmers”

3: The Wave Editor
19. Introduction to the Wave Editor
20. Grids
21. Editing Grids
22. Building Loops
23. Fine Tuning Loops
24.Loop Modes
25. Beat Machine
26. Time Machine
27. Playing Individual Slices
28. Zone Envelopes
29. More About Zone Envelopes
30. Sample Editor
31. Review – Talk Music
32. Review – Ambibella
4: Signal Flow
33. The Source Module
34. More About Beat Machine
35. More About Time Machine
36. Tone Machine
37. The Amplifier Module
38. Insert Effects
39. Send Effects
40.Effect Order
41. Sending a Group to an Aux Channel
42. Review – Guitar and Bells

5: Modulators
43. Introduction to Modulators
44. Assignment Controls
45. Envelopes
46. ​​32 Step Modulator
47. Envelope Follower
48. Glide and External Sources
49. Syncing Modulators and Effects to Tempo
50. Review – Looney Tune and Bass Part One
51. Review – Looney Tune and Bass Part Two

6: Scripts
52. Introduction to Scripts
53. More About Scripting

7: Final Thoughts
54. What’s New in Kontakt 4.1 – Part One
55. What’s New in Kontakt 4.1 – Part Two
56. Wrap-Up



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