Absolutely the most lucid explanation of the process I've seen on youtube. Foolproof. Thanks. Subscribed immediately!

Superbly explained ! best video on this topic so far ! love from the Band Ambassadors !

I have seen countless videos on this topic but never one so comprehensive, concise and so well spoken. Great tutorials! Thank you and keep them coming!

I can't even put into words how grateful I am for this valuable content. Literally the most clear and accurate explanation I have ever seen. I'm an absolute noob at this and you come out and put into really comprehensive words. Again, thank you a lot for this. Obviously you have my like and my subscription.

I've searched for years this multi outs routing Kontakt thing !! Thanks so much for your video, I've learnt a lot as a newcomer Cubase user !

🍀You have an excellent way of explaining "technical" things (configuration). I've had Kontakt 7 Player and various Native Instruments libraries here on my SSD for a few months. Because I somehow didn't understand the configuration, I've barely touched the whole thing to this day. Today I did exactly what you showed in the video step by step (I also have CUBASE PRO) - and it works. I can finally work effectively with the Native Instruments sounds. Thank you!

This is a great and very lucid explanation of setting up multi-timbral/multiple outputs with Kontakt. I have found however that it is better, from a multi-thread perspective to setup each Kontakt instance as its own instrument. It is better on memory and performance. Also, it makes it much easier to use the "load tracks from project" function in Cubase since when you load the track, you are loading the instrument track already configured, assigned and ready to go. If you load a MIDI track from a set of tracks, you have to shut off the extra tracks and outputs and go through the process of checking the setup prior to output of your stems.

Another concise unfussy and excellent tutorial. Thank you so much for not starting your videos by gurning into the camera and shouting "Are YOU running out of CPU power? Let ME show you how THE PROS do it!" followed by twenty seconds of an unnecessarily-flashy title sequence.

FINALLY! someone that makes a detailed explanation of how to do something without showing us their fucking song or trying to sell us on something. You rule man

You're the best. I've been doing this for years using multiple instances of Kontakt. Things are going to be so much better going forward thanks to you!

Recently upgraded my system to a high end CPU for the very reason you mentioned in the beginning. Very excited to see what results I can get using this configuration!

Spent 2 days trying to get a sound out of Kontakt 6 freebie. Watched your video and hey presto!! up and running within minutes. I like your tutorials as they cater even for relative beginners like myself. Thank you.

I watched this today 9-2022 very helpful I followed the steps using kontakt 6 player version in a different Daw works just about the same thanks looking forward to your kontakt 7 videos 👍🏾

Jef Thank you, thank you, thank you, 1000 plus one times thank you. I am a 65 year old jazz keyboardist/educator/arranger/producer for over 23 years. been using DAW's for years, but just did a major upgrade from my old stand by Cakewalk Sonar to Abletone live Suite, Kontakt, Cubase with a nice array of various Spectrosonic plug ins Trillian, Keyscape etc. Plus many other VST's including Serum etc. Man this is ALL still fairly to me and there is so much information out there (both good and not so good) I learned a long time ago to always have a general idea of whatever it is you want to do 1st, then search for that specific thing in your research vs trying to learn all that a software program can do first per se. I had a fairly good idea of what it was that I wanted to do in running Kontakt inside of Cubase. That being I wanted to run 1 instance of Kontakt yet play and record various instruments from that 1 instance. You have no idea how long it took me until I FINALLY came to your excellent video. You have a new subscriber for life. Thank you so much. If you knew my whole story you would really understand just how much it meant to me to finally find a to the point and precise video such as yours. Thank you so much again.

Best educational contents for DAW learner... thanks

Thank you for this great explenation!

Bro I LOVE YOU AND THANK YOU !!!!!!!It took me years to check dis out...now i understand!!!!best regards from germany

Thank you so much. I had the basics figured out through watching other tutorials, but none of them could explain why in the end there were 2 sets of faders for each instrument, and it looked really ugly. I thought I was stuck with it, but your explanations totally covered everything and more in terms of configuring it correctly (and neatly). I am very grateful for all the time and stress you saved me with such a complete, comprehensive, (and free) lesson. Fantastic!!

I was about ready to quit trying to use Kontakt lol. Thanks, I now understand the power of it.

Funny that I should run into this vid. Out of necessity, I just figured out how to do this with EastWest's Play VST in Studio One. Cutz like butta. Then I tried doing it with the Reason Rack VST. No Joy. It's not multi-timbral. I checked with them and they said it was impossible. I corrected them (bold, I know), saying it was a design choice. And a good one at that. Thanks for showing this with Kontact. Didn't know I could do this with K, but you can count on it now. BTW: Learned how to do all this on a vintage Korg 16 track sequencing keyboard back in the nineties. Can't recall the model name/number.

Really Powerful video. Configuration won’t have been possible without your step by step explanation. Only issue at the end is that I have some midi expanders, so I need to keep all midi tracks visible. Thanks for the video :-)

Amzingingly helpful! I went thru this about 3 times. There was so much info in here. I had to really concentrate. But I got it now. I'm set up with a great template ready to go in Kontakt. I want to do the same for Omnisphere and Halion. Thanks again Jef

I absolutely love this video! Best explanation of the topic ever! Here's a suggestion for a follow up: A video about how to "render in place" multiple outputs of multitimbral synth, so you get an audio track for each (midi)-channel. If I try this with kontakt in cubase, it works at some point, but it get's quite messy, with a lot of empty extra audio tracks automatically created, ect. It is easy to do with dedicated instrument tracks or with drums via "disolve parts", but how do you do this properly with a bunch of midi channels routed to e.g. Kontakt? Would be great!

So very helpful! I will go back to this and make notes; and thank you!

Fantastic... the best tutorial!!!! Thank you!!!!!

Thanks for sharing these tips. I knew about the batch script but I never did the setup to have 16 stereo channels as default. Nice.

Very clear explanation thank you very much!

I'm late to the party but man was this helpful! Thanks!!

Thank you so much sir. Detailed explanation . 🎼🎻🎹🎺📯🎷🎸🎶🎵🎤👍🏼

amazing tutorial!! thank you so much man!!!

Compliments! You are a great teacher. And really saved me some headache :-)

Wish I knew about you 3 years ago. Thanks

Thank you sir....respect from india...🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

I love my Cubase pro 10.5 along with my Maschine plus and Komplete 13 ultimate collector edition. I’m looking forward for Cubase pro 11 it’s coming real soon.

Excellent tutorial my friend! 👏

Great tutorial! Thanks Jef!

You're my god. Thanks for these videos.

Very useful, thanks for this information!

i'm impressed of your accurate explanation well done great job! Thanks a lot and you have also Obviously my like and my subscription.

Crystal clear explanation. Thank you.

Exactlty what I was looking for and you explained it perfectly. Thank you Jef!

Thank's Jeff. Usefull and clear explanations. 🎹🎶

Excellent and a real help. Thanks a million :)

Would love to see video on midi port setup, the "ins" and "out" i get confused on whether my NI keyboard is a midi "in" or "out" device or if Kontakt is my "in" or "out" device even "audio connection" under the "studio tab" set up or explanation would be good too.

Thanks of lot from Imphal

Amazing tutorial, thankyou

Great explanation! Thanks

Thank you for these great and clear explanations !

I always use omnisphere this way but haven’t tried kontakt, thank you 😊

Smart Idea Thanks 🙏

Thank you so much! You've been such a discovery on youtube Jef. Cheers!

I love your tutorials, Jeff! Keep up the good work! Thanks :)

Excellent tutorial, so helpful!! Thanks for sharing and keep them coming ;)

Great! Thank you.

Very useful thank you !!

Sooooo Helpful Thanks a lot.

Thank you so much. Though I was looking/searching to setup Kontakt 6 in my cubase 10.5 pro, I think halion is way better/easy to setup as a multi timbre.

Many thanks!

awesome! you have great talent to communicate what you know! Thanks! Now I just need to add my montage to the template and I'll be rolling... I'll check to see if you have a video about adding ext keys! congrats!!! best video!!!!

super helpful, thank you. 👈

Great explanation - much thanks Jeff , very much appreciated edit.. all works well, but can you have separate automation for each track, I couldn't figure that out

good info thanks.

Very nice and quick, thank you

Very essential and informative video !

Thanks! Good tutorial! Very useful!

thanks For tutorials this useful for me .

this video is great! Can you do stuff like this for Fl Studio too please? it would be great! You are amazing, thanks a lot for your videos

Thank you very much for that, it helps a lot.

It really helped me this thank you.

Nice one Jef. 🎈🎹

Very nice tutorial Sir can u demonstrate the same for fl studio and Reasons 5. With special emphasis on how to route all the 16 channels to FL studio mixer And how to apply swing on a particular midi out track.We would be very greatful

Jef, you are an AWESOME TEACHER!!!! Could you by chance do a tutorial video showing how to set up a Multi using Spectrasonics Omnisphere in Cubase 10 or 11? I want each patch going out of Omnisphere as a separate output into Cubase, and then of course how to setup the separate outputs in Cubase.

GREAT!

Thank you for this! Best explanation of how to do this that I've seen so far! I know in Ableton...after setting up the multi-timbral instrument...I can save it as a preset so I don't have to do this routing every time...After setting everything up, is there a way to save it as a preset so you don't have to do this every time?

Precise, concrete, all said without unnecessary story... great video! But, I have a question. What would happen if we delet MIDI track "Analog D"? I ask because VST instrument Analog Dreams is already on "Kontakt Master" track. After deleting it, we rename "Kontakt Master" track to Analog D, that's how we get a fader with appropriate name and remove excessive track that confuses us. Am I right or have I overlooked something? I appreciate your answer Jef.

Bedankt

Every time a watch a video about the most Basic of Basics, I catch myself thinking: How dumb must one be, to have this explained...but then I remember that I am 50 now, and the digital revolution in music and I grew up together, all was new and it just was easy to keep up, cause "the basics" where just being invented. I really do not know if I had the patience to learn all the things that are now possible today If I was young. I guess I would be so overwhelmed...I would quit with the "midi vs audio" thing. (Remember the time when AUDIO was just for rich kids? ;-) All I wanna say: Nice job keeping the kids interested

Hey there. Awesome, well-structured content here. Subbed for that alone. I do have a question, though. I see you're using a komplete kontrol mkii keyboard. Considering Komplete Kontrol is not really set up for multi-timbral instruments, do you find yourself using komplete kontrol all that much? If not, do you feel like the lack of integration is affecting your workflow, or is the standard "MIDI mode" functional enough for you?

Great stuff thanks.

thanks. good tutorial 👍

Thank you so much. This was very helpful. I see you are having a KK mk2. Does the Kontakt parameters show on the NI keyboard display? I was just thinking it would be good to have a consolidated approach for using one instrument platform and make the KK keyboard to see the parameters properly and as we change the instruments within contact, it could apply that to other instruments too. For instance if one assigns the first four knobs on one Kontakt instrument to ADSR, as you switch to 2nd and 3rd, etc. instruments automatically ADSR parameters keep getting mapped to knob 1 to 4. I appreciate your comment for make good use of KK hardware GUI that can be created (perhaps may need more work in the beginning but hopefully only once) for best use of KK hardware with Cubase with multiple tracks and therefore multiple instruments. Thank you.

Always great content!! Wish you were a Ableton live user 😕

When I have completed all the steps up to 12:50 in the video, I still have the midi files in the mixer, which play, individual channels appear but do not play, Switching to the project window, individual tracks are not showing. I have tried many times, closely following every move. Outcome is the same. The only place where there was a difference in the procedure, was when I added the five midi tracks, the channels were not automatically numbered, had to enter the channel numbers manually.

Thank you dear Jef, just what happened to me, when I turned of midi channels as you described I couldn't hear audio channels, probably I made mistake somewhere!? Please help!

Hello Jef,I have just bought Komplete Kontrol A61. I have read the manual, however I'm having difficulty understanding the browser instructions. In Cubase 13 the browser light doesn't come on at all I'd be so grateful if you could shine a light on this Problem.

Great stuff! What resolution does your tv monitor have, 4k? UHD? What do you set your output resolution to? Looks amazing. Thanks

Thanks Jeff, This is a great tutorial. @Mamuka Megrelishvili asked me is it possible to set up the monogram cc with kontakt? I have had no luck....yet. If you have any suggestions we'd love to hear them. #kontakt #monogramcc

Thank you for your work. So I reset my Kontakt and now when I open it the keys are playing REALLY QUIET. It seems the input is off because when I press the same key on the player with my mouse it's loud. What setting is off? Can you help me fix this? Like restore to defaults? When I do that it restores to your settings. Thanks

the only issue i see is that default name of the vst track messes up the naming scheme once you activate the additional outputs... perhaps that can be remedied in your situaltion by making analog dreams start on midi channel 2 in the kontakt output

So that means doing automation for St.1 must be done on the main i strument track itself? But will this affect other instruments too?

Thanks for this video.. However, when I add an instrument track , it does not set a default midi channel for the instrument track..there is a different symbol where the midi track should be in the left side panel.. Why would this be? I am using Cubase 5.. is this why? Also, at 7.06 in the video above, after setting your bass track midi channel, you can still hear the Hybrid keys from the track above, instead of hearing the bass, which is the point of setting the midi channel.. Why is this please?

This is super helpful but integration between Kontakt and Cubase is still so clunky. For example the first output channel is still named Kontakt Master even though it's only the output for "Analog Dreams" in your case or whichever instrument happens to be in the first slot.

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Jef you're my dude man, no doubt. But for a novice like myself I got a little confused when you said near the end of the vid turn the midi faders all the way to off if you're going to set up audio outs. It took me a minute to realize that you meant since the default position of the midi faders is in the off position even though they aren't actually off that you just "shouldn't touch" the midi faders at all ie move them from their default off position which in fact isn't actually off. I literally did each step you said and obviously at the end when I turned the midi faders "back" to off the audio outs didn't work. I think I understand what you meant though in that you should NEVER TOUCH the midi faders if you're planning to create audio outs, correct?

Thank you. Really well explained! One question - could you have done this as a rack instrument?

I have problem,I need to add a separate contact for the drum kit, all the sounds sound separate, but when I add the drum kit, the other sounds get mixed up and messed up.

Wonderful explanation of using the weirdness of Kontakt output assignments! - Just one question: When making a multi-timbral instrument, doesn’t that force each of the timbres into the same CPU thread, because it’s on the same DAW track? So if the timbres add up to a lot of CPU consumption, it may be advantageous to have them on different DAW tracks, so they can spread out over the different threads of a modern multi-core CPU?

Fab

Really great video 👍🏻….question , ya know how you filtered out the midi tracks in the console so you only saw the outputs from kontakt (which makes total sense as you can’t mix with the midi tracks) can you do the reverse in the project window ?…i dont dig having 2 tracks to deal with in the project window (the midi track and the audio output track) and there seems to be no way to ‘filter out’ the audio track (The only way is to choose ‘hide other tracks’ but then it will hide marker tracks etc as well ) and if I hide the tracks in the visibility window it’ll hide them in the console so that wont work lol ….Is just keeping them in an ‘audio output’ folder The only way to just show Midi tracks in the project window ?