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Currently there’s no way to monitor real mouse events in Kontakt … only partly since Kontakt 6, which is introduced in this Drag & Drop Script. In general we can only simulate a mouse release event via some workarounds. In this article we will introduce 3 different methods.

The set_engine_par() command is used to control or set almost any engine parameters like volume, pan, tune, fx, lfo’s, envelopes and more. So wiht this command we actually control Kontakt via our custom UI. So set_engine_par() is mostly used in combination with the on ui_control callback whenever we use custom knobs or buttons to control […]

in this tutorial we will work with sublime text and macros. A macro works almost like a function. We use them like functions and we can use arguments to pass expressions to alter or individualize several parameters inside a  macro.

this tutorial is based on the Wallpaper and the Dynamic Wallpaper (via label element) tutorial. Actually once the initial wallpaper is set we can’t change it anymore but we can move the wallpaper image vertically via set_skin_offset(). So if we create a wallpaper sprite which is as double as high as our ui_size (in this case […]

You get Sublime Text from https://www.sublimetext.com/ Note: you can use it without any restrictions but you still need to buy a license. It’s really worth it! Thx to Nils Liberg and nojanath who created a KSP plugin for Sublime Text with many new possibilities like macros, for statements, functions and many more, using Sublime is almost […]

In this tutorial we will learn how to dynamically change labels and display the knob’s current value for the time the knob gets moved. After releasing the knob the default label shows up again after a certain delay. See video Also see these more conveniant solutions, using less code

in this tutorial we will create “animated” buttons for Kontakt 5 or 6 with the following states: off on pressed off pressed on mouse hover off mouse hover on