MaK is a Kontakt instrument which replicates the sounds of a person using various computer keyboards, mice, or touchscreen devices. This allows you to very quickly perform the foley of using one of these devices via midi.
MaK was created to speed up the time consuming process of editing and/or recording mice and keyboards. After realizing how often this came up in both my commercial and film work, I decided there had to be a better way.
Several recording sessions and Kontakt script headaches later, MaK was born!
There are 15 devices available in MaK: 5 Keyboards, 5 Mice, 2 Touchscreens, and 3 digital keyboards. Each of these devices has been meticulously recorded at a number of different velocities for a very realistic playback performance.
Device List:
• Macbook Pro laptop keyboard
• Modern slim wireless desktop keyboard
• Modern portable wireless desktop keyboard
• Old style wired Apple keyboard
• Old standard PS2 PC Keyboard
• Modern wireless mouse
• Old flimsy wired mouse
• Modern square wireless mouse
• Touchpad mouse buttons from a modern portable wireless keyboard
• Touchpad mouse buttons from a Macbook Pro
• Fingers on small touchscreen
• Fingers on large touchscreen
• Digital keyboard interface sound effect – High Click
• Digital keyboard interface sound effect – Low Click
• Digital keyboard interface sound effect – Chirp
The majority of the devices have 5 velocity layers; from soft to hard. Each of these velocity layers have 32 different samples: 16 for the press sound, and 16 for the release sounds of each device. That’s 160 samples per device! MaK will randomly trigger press and release samples for each layer based on the velocity you play the notes. Easy to use controls allow you to adjust additional layers of randomness in both velocity and pitch. All of this adds up to realistic devices, and convincing performance.
MaK will NOT work in the free Kontakt “Player”. A full, licensed version of Kontakt 5 (5.3.1+) is required.
George Haddad –
The MaK – Mouse & Keyboard library is excellent. You get so many detailed sound effects for each category and is brilliantly mapped out to perform on a midi keyboard with velocity, volume and root note preprogrammed. Such a time savior!
Justin Crosby –
MAK is the best collection of keys & clicks I’ve found so far!
Thomas Resimont –
MaK is really a time saver for those typing video animations. I used to do these type of boring sound editing tasks one sample at a time, or almost. Very time consuming and nerve grinding. Now it has become very easy to do and fun. Grab a keyboard, open Kontakt, load the library and off you go. The plugin is also extremely intuitive and sound is convincing.
Marco –
i have purchased MaK for kontakt and really like it. approaching it more like an instrument as opposed to a simple sample library is great and so is having lots of variation and different velocity layers. i haven’t had the chance to try all different instruments since there are several keyboards, mouses and device included, but that is actually just another plus 🙂
Benjamin Morris –
MaK worked great! Sounds were great, and the variation in sounds was great. Very happy.
Gerry Vazquez –
Mouse & Keyboard makes my life so much easier. I can knock out any computer / typing scenes in seconds, and the phone / tablet sounds are also an excellent touch. All of the sounds are high quality, and the randomization is organic and believable. This instrument is a huge time-saver and allows you to create custom and synced foley sounds in a fraction of the time.
Alan Zilli –
Collected Transients` MaK has helped me a lot to streamline my workflow in TV Series. There are some situations that do not demand much in terms of sound design and need to be resolved quickly and simply. MaK helps me get through some of these scenes quickly so that I can focus more time on what really matters.