IMHO, Kontakt player is not much use, unless you plan to buy one of the sound packs designed for kontakt. I heard that many professionals use it, and I know one, myself, who uses it extensively.įor the kontakt library, you won't beat it ! Seriously the quantity and quality of sounds is just unbelievable. I think it's regarded as the #1 vst sampler by lots of people, because you can hear so many people praising it, and so many companies release sample packs in the Kontakt format. The real kontakt let's you modify sounds, script and do a lot of stuff. Therefore you can't do much with it except playback. The 'free' kontakt on NI's website is kontakt player. And in my opinion your better off using sampler for building your own stuff anyway, as long as you are not planning to market it to the public lol. If you don't plan to use professional sample libraries you are better off just sticking to sampler/simpler.

Kontakt is one of the major tools that professional quality sampling instruments are built for. Some instruments use keyswitches to control intonation, which is just a key you press with your left hand. You pretty much set them up like an instrument rack (with each instrument having different midi inputs). However when using these sample libraries, there isn't really much to 'learn' about kontakt. Theres lots of other sampled instruments available for kontakt everything from sampled Nord leads to whistling and random sounds. Also the east-west / colossus sample collection is great, and Chris Hein horns is pretty cool. It sounds so real and perfect it's uncanny. You will swear that you are actually playing the piano. Alicia's Keys is a little over a hundred bucks (and takes up 7gb) but it is simply stunning. However, if you don't give some of the Kontakt libraries a fair shot, you are missing out. They are very powerful and fully integrated into Live. For making your OWN samples and beats up and stuff, definitely stick to sampler / simpler / drum racks.

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