Turn Your Sample Packs into Kong Drum Kits for Reason
Kit Maker can help you quickly create tons of Reason drum kits from your Sample Packs or Maschine Expansions. Our app is primarily known for creating drum kit presets for MPC, Ableton and others, but we also have an easy way to make kits for Reason's Kong, using our Numbered Files format!
These kits are created as organized folders of 16 sample drum kits. Although it is not a direct preset file, loading a kit is as simple as dragging the contents of a kit folder onto your Kong pads!
These are not direct Kong preset files, but are kit folders which can be imported into the software.
Kit folders are automatically named and organized
Easy to use: Drag & drop the contents of a kit folder onto the empty pads of the Kong device
Uses the right amount of sample types for each kit, and consistant layouts, like a real drum kit expansion
Drag Sample Packs into Kit Maker
Import your Sample Packs (or Maschine Expansions) into Kit Maker
Make Kit Folders
Samples are numbered (for pad placement) and put in individual kit folders
Play Your Kits
Drag & Drop the contents of any kit folder to your Kong pads. Your kits is filled in the correct layout and ready to play!
Why use Kit Maker instead of importing samples manually?
Kit Maker creates the kits for you! It automatically creates 16 pad kits. Each kit is grouped together, organized, labeled and ready to import. If you have a lot of Sample Packs or Maschine Expansions, it will make tons of kits with the right amount of samples, in the right layout (similar to expansion packs of other DAWs).
Turn Maschine Expansions into Kong Drum Kits Automatically
Import Maschine Expansion Folders
Use the Layout You Want
Make Kit Folders that are easy to import
The Maschine Factory Library, as well as the Expansions, are easy to process. Each Library you process will be turned into individual kits, ready to use.
Or nearly any drum sample pack!
Import nearly any Sample Pack folder!
Make kits from Splice, Loopmasters and other Sample Packs
Customize how your kits are made.
Nearly any Sample Pack folder can be imported. Sample Packs with labeled subfolders will be laid out into kits automatically! If a pack isn't organized by folders, no worries, Kit Maker will make kits based on the filenames.
How to Import the Kits into Kong
Once you’ve imported your Sample Packs into Kit Maker and converted them, loading a kit is as simple as dragging the contents of a kit folder to the drum pads! Below are more details.
Creating the Kits
- Drag & drop your sample packs into Kit Maker
- Choose the Numbered Files output format
- Click Make Kits
- The Kits are made on your desktop
Drag a Kit to your Kong Pads
- Open the Kit Maker Kits folder on your desktop (optionally save this to an easy to access location).
- Open a kit folder and select the contents.
- Drag the samples to the bottom left Kong pad.
- The 16 pads will fill with the kit in the correct layout!
- (Optional) You can save each kit for later use.
DAWS & Hardware that Suppport Kit Folders / Numbered Files
Logic
Maschine
Reason (Kong)
Bitwig Studio
Koala Sampler
Roland SP404 MK2
Geist 2
Groove Agent SE 5
iMPC 2 (iOS)
Circuit Rhythm
Circuit Tracks
Help and Resources
- For a detailed guide on using Kit Maker, visit our Manual
- Lots of help resources can be found on our Technical Help Page
- To Learn more about the Numbered Files format and other DAWs it works with, visit this page
- To learn about which DAWs Kit Maker can create actual kit presets for, view our home page