Jonathan Adams Leonard is back with yet another update to the Reaktor Toolpack for Kore. Jonathan really earns credit for having made Kore itself doubly useful when combined with Reaktor and his custom patches, and this adds one really cool addition and another improvement to a nice existing feature:

AudioTrigger is a new addition that converts a mono audio input to a midi note event with velocity. Features include a learn button for automatically setting the trigger threshold and numerous controls for adjusting sensitivity including a bandpass filter to reject unwanted frequencies.

Scale was redesigned using a reaktor event table to handle the randomization of polyphonic input which fixed a problem with hung notes.

Update info on the NI forum
Kore 2 Reaktor Toolpack site

And, Kore + Reaktor users, see our own Eoin Rossney take an in-depth look at the toolpack (minus these new modules):
Free, Modular Power Tools for Kore 2: A Guide to the Reaktor Toolpack

Who will be the first person to upload a video featuring the audio trigger in Kore? (I’ll see if I can’t make that me!) I’m kind of interested to hook it up to one of the beat-making apps now on my PSP, DS, and iPod touch.

Interpol, the superstar, New York-based band (not the international anti-crime organization) have been touring the world with an intensive, live rig, powered by Kore. Our friend Jonathan Adams Leonard aka sleen, a technological superstar himself, put together their current digital setup, and sends along copious notes on the hardware and software rig. Jonathan has plenty more to share as far as how to make Kore work for live players, but first let’s have a look at the details of the rig itself.

And yes, prepare yourself for some serious hardware and software pr0n from one of the world’s best live bands. No DJ sets here.

(For our previous chat with Jonathan, see Free, Modular Power Tools for Kore 2: A Guide to the Reaktor Toolpack, covering his must-download Reaktor ensembles for use with Kore.)

Jonathan Adams Leonard has been hard at work preparing Interpol for their Kore-powered tour, but he’s still managed to get out yet another update to his must-have, free set of power tools for Kore, built in Reaktor:

Hi guys, I updated the toolpack to include Midi FilterX8. This provides dynamic recall of 8 midi filters per instance for each performance preset, with 8 user pages.

Now we’re talking — that gives you some seriously powerful MIDI assignments for presets. See our previous run-down on the toolpack if you haven’t already:

Free, Modular Power Tools for Kore 2: A Guide to the Reaktor Toolpack

As we’ve noted previously, you do need to own Reaktor to take advantage of these, though I think the combination of Reaktor and Kore is powerful enough that it could be a more-than-worthy upgrade for existing Kore users. Stay tuned — I’ve got some of my own crazy setups using Jonathan’s work and some patches of my own. And we’ll be talking more to Jonathan about what he’s doing and how that Interpol setup came together — we had to postpone a little bit so he could finish working with the setup and the band!

Just a quick (and overdue) update to say that Jonathan Leonard aka Sleen has updated his Kore 2 Reaktor Tool Pack with improvements to Kore2Midi, the Midi Filter and Bank/Program Change tools. From comments:

The Kore2MidiX8Learn is simply a version where all the controls send unique numbers for universal midi learn. This is the same version as mentioned in this thread previously but is now included in the zip.

The Midifilter ens and ksd are new and allow for general or specific midi event filtering.

The Bank ens and ksd have been extended to include bank msb and lsb values, with delays set on recall to make sure msb, lsb and program change are sent in the right order. MSB was added to support external modules like Roland.

To get more information and obtain the software:

Kore 2 Reaktor Toolpack

Thank you,

Jonathan Adams Leonard

If you’re using the Toolpack in ways we haven’t covered let us know. What tools would you most like to see in Kore?