Kontakt Player 4

[braincell]

Someone probably already posted this but in case you missed it, the free Kontakt Player 4 and the free factory sounds is great. Best freebie I have downloaded ever.

[dawman]

Let's see if I got this right......
You gave us a Nostradumbass prophecy about how you're Luna card would never get 64 bit drivers, WRONG......and you needed them badly to load massive instruments in RAM, and after all of the endless whining about the need for massive RAM, you went 64bit, dumped Scope and got an M Audio Delta used on ebay, so you could load weak sounding 1MB freebies..........??...........

FWIW, Kontakt 5 is what they use on the big jobs now, great time stretching algo, but I wouldn't dare poison my SSD's with it's " free " worthless sounds, much less the Kontakt Player 4 freebies.......

[siriusbliss]

The K4 player has been out for over a year now, and Kontakt 5 has been out a while.

But I'm finding myself using Independence more and more - at least for percussion libraries.

G

[dante]

I see the upgrade from Kontakt 4 to 5 is $120 - is it worth it ?

Seems theres a stereo drummer in 5 which could be usefull, could save time over mixing drums from different sources (outboard, Kontakt, Halion, Reason).

A chior that can change from A-E-I-O-U mid note could be usefull as well (just like the Solaris formant filters ?)

[siriusbliss]

I see the upgrade from Kontakt 4 to 5 is $120 - is it worth it ?

Seems theres a stereo drummer in 5 which could be usefull, could save time over mixing drums from different sources (outboard, Kontakt, Halion, Reason).

A chior that can change from A-E-I-O-U mid note could be usefull as well (just like the Solaris formant filters ?)

IMO it is worth the upgrade since there are more very good 3rd party libraries, and better memory handling and lots of scripts available now - many of which will not play in the free player.

Greg

[Mr Arkadin]

I got the Kontakt Player sort of as a demo. Worst crap I ever downloaded. I even bought that nice Novachord library. The thing just splattered and crackled like a bastard at 7ms ULLI even with all the crappy effects turned off. OK I may not have the latest computer here but ffs sake it should work. Normally I can work at 4ms ULLI. It was suggested that I try a higher latency. 13ms being the next setting I was less than impressed, is that really an acceptable latency in the VST world?

Anyway turns out that most of the good libraries don't even work in KP4, so frankly it's a bit useless. I thought the factory stuff was dire.

Perhaps I'll try it again (and finally get K5) when I get a new computer this year.

[garyb]

yeah, you need a moderately powerful machine to run Kontact and anything else, like a sequencer. even the lower end stuff is plenty fast these days though. if it's been a while since you had a new computer(Scope cards tend to make that an easy thing to happen), you'll be surprised how well it will work for how little money you spend, compared to 2 or 3 years ago.

[spacef]

I got kontakt (full) and what works really fine is the articulation for movie score like music, I managed to do nice stuff (VSL strings and brass i think).
I had the player but never really used it. No problem running Kontakt here (even on another usb soundcard with 5.5ms latency) but i got a big computer (i7-950 , 6gb ram).
a bigger CPU will help latency a little, but as sound clicks are generally due to the CPU not being able to cope with all that is loaded at the same time, the bigger CPU the better...

[dawman]

I have had nothing but happiness since I dropped Gigastudio, or should I say it dropped us.
Kontakt loves Cores and throughput. The Cores help with the instances loaded, and the sweet spot on the 1366 platform is around 3.5GHz.
SSD's will help a little but I am seeing the Quad RAM channels doing wonders for a DAW.
A Sonar geek I know verified that 8 x instrument banks, with 24 large instruments on each is able to get 500+ voices on his RME card.
So it seems that the 2011 platform is great for sample playback.

I am looking at going totally mobile in 2012. I won't even be needing the new 12" Mackie Thumps at the gigs I want to start doing.
But here's a laptop motherboard I first saw last year at CES, and I will see it next week in action here at 2012 CES.
Has everything a sample playback geek needs.
Plus it's made for the XITE-1 and Solaris. Express Slot 54, and even a built in Memory Card reader for Solaris.....
USB 3.0, PCI-e 3.0, and the chipset itself, at least on the Gigabyte UD5 X79 seems to not have the issues we saw with the first i7's and PCI-e audio. I'm stoked.

Since all of my synths are now hardware, except for the B2003, and Modular IV, this can be a Kontakt monster, hosted by Reaper and it's dongle free, hassle free host. It's kind of a PITA to get everything together in MIDI, but Reaper is the most stable playback host once programmed and saved.

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Seasons Beatings and a Crappy New Year....

[dante]

Jav I dont think yer link pasted properly...