ADSR life - that’s a very big deal for me. My ‘eureka’ moment was when I realised I could tweak my own sounds. “I was floored due to the detailed features and excited about the amount of control I had over the sounds without having to communicate to a sighted person to do it for me. “To call it a ‘game changer’ simply doesn’t do it justice.”īarnes found that whole new musical worlds opened up to him when introduced to the system. “I don’t think anyone expected the breakthrough that KOMPLETE KONTROL would represent to visually impaired users,” says Kern. So when the artists first tried the accessibility features in KOMPLETE KONTROL, it was, to put it mildly, revolutionary.
Both artists have found their approach to production and composition dramatically transformed. Native Instruments spoke to two visually impaired artists who are not just using KOMPLETE KONTROL‘s accessibility features in everyday production and performance but have more recently been consulted by NI on the development of them.
Fully supported by Native Instruments’ own tools and effects, the accessibility features can also be used by third-party products that implement NI’s NKS (Native Kontrol Standard), meaning any KONTAKT or REAKTOR Instrument or VST plugin has the potential to be part of the system. This allows users to browse and tweak and design sounds with total precision. Thanks to the touch-sensitive rotary encoders, and auditory feedback provided by the buttons on the KOMPLETE KONTROL keyboard range, the software can detect when the user’s fingers are resting on them, then give auditory feedback – synthesised speech – of the current value, and do so continuously as it’s adjusted. The accessibility features of the KOMPLETE KONTROL software allow blind and visually impaired musicians and producers to achieve a previously impossible level of interaction with their software and hardware.
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