Sound Design with Kontakt

This four-session course explores a practical approach to composing and producing music with Native Instruments Kontakt. We will cover the most important technical and aesthetic aspects of creating music with the industry-standard Kontakt sampler. Weekly assignments will give you practical experience in putting these technical skills in a musical context. Topics include Kontakt library, signal flow, layering, working with drums, building custom sampled instruments, file management, modulation, audio FX, automation, and DAW integration. At the end of this course, you will have created four original compositions with Kontakt, in addition to numerous custom sampled instruments.

• Using the Kontakt interface and factory library
• Compose original music using Kontakt library patches within a Digital Audio Workstation.
• Creating custom single-sample instruments
• Compose original music with numerous instruments built from a single sample.
• Creating custom multi-sampled instruments
• Compose original music with custom multi-sampled instruments.
• Using advanced modulation and scripting
• Create a piece of music using advanced sampling techniques and build a custom performance view for an original Kontakt instrument.