A control strip that provide access to various utility functions, a status line that displays the parameters of the currently selected Zone and the Zone Grid…a two-dimensional grid with a keyboard. The Mapping Editor consists of three parts. Clicking the button again will hide the Mapping Editor. To open the Mapping Editor, click the button labeled Mapping Editor (below the Instrument Header). To map samples and access these Zone parameters we use the Mapping Editor. Additional Zone properties such as volume, pan or tune can be set as well. These Zones are placed on a keyboard and the velocity range the zone should respond to is set. Samples, the audio files that Kontakt plays, are defined in Zones.

In today’s tutorial, we will discuss how to use the Kontakt Mapping Editor to map samples and manage zones.