• Introduction & Review (03:51) - Get an overview of what will be covered in this series, as well as a brief refresher on the basic architecture of KONTAKT instruments.

• Creating a Brass Layer (04:20) - See how to use the copy and paste commands in the Group Editor to copy and paste groups between instruments, preserving their zone mapping, group parameters, and other settings in the process.

• Working with Snapshots (05:49) - Discover how KONTAKT's snapshot function is used to save variations of a KONTAKT instrument for easy recall.

• Mod Wheel Amp & Pan Routing (06:16) - See how to route incoming mod wheel messages to control the amp level and panning in selected groups.

• Setting Up Key Switch Groups (05:37) - Explore the group export / import feature, and see how to set groups up to be triggered by key switch notes as some pad samples are added to a Rhodes instrument.

• From Deconstruction to Reconstruction (08:51) - Learn how to save Insert & Send effects chains, and how to set up some simple LFO based pan modulation controlled by the mod wheel. Also see how these various Factory Library elements can be used and repurposed when constructing instruments from scratch.

• Fun with Amp Envelopes (07:20) - The Amp Envelope determines the characteristics of a note's volume over time. Explore ways of altering envelope values to dramatically shapes the impact and duration of the sounds as they are triggered.

• Fun with Urban Beats (09:39) - Explore this powerful component of KONTAKT's Factory Library and see how beats can be programmed up with individual loop slices, triggered from a factory collection, customized with a powerful built-in step sequencer, and effected with various insert, send / return, and global processing effects.

• External Routing & Signal Flow (06:38) - See how to bypass KONTAKT's internal routing and connect the output of each group to a unique virtual output that arrive on independent channel strips within your DAW.

• Internal Routing & Signal Flow (10:06) - Explore the use of Insert Effects at the Group, Bus, Instrument, and Output stages of the signal flow, and see how Send Effects are set up at the Group, Bus, or Instrument stages, and routed to the auxiliary channel strips in the Outputs section.