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14 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

It escapes me why an individual who wished to share their sampled instrument(s) just for the enjoyment of it would choose the Kontakt format. The Kontaktians would no doubt say it's because of the multitudes of people who own Kontakt and are therefore able to use them.

If they already owned Kontakt and knew the ins and outs, I don't see why this would be a bad idea, though I realise this isn't the case in this scenario.

7 hours ago, Starship Krupa said:

I don't know what Kontakt has going for it that SampleTank (the most recent issue) and other such products don't, except maybe the ability to create those elaborate UI's?

I've never made any instruments but from what I've read, the scripting available in Kontakt is far more advanced, meaning that more realistic-sounding instruments can be made

7 hours ago, John Bradley said:

Like the current Summer Madness sale (or whatever), where they're doing 50% off upgrades, but not 50% off for first-time buyers who might be willing to drop $300 for (not-so) KOMPLETE, but are never going to spend $599 for same.

They did so on one year - the very next day after I decided to use a $22 e-voucher to get that much off the full price (because the first buy is never discounted, right...). Not complaining (too much) though, it's a great sampler for my usages. YMMV.

7 hours ago, John Bradley said:

Also, I find it slightly amusing that Session Horns Pro is a $150 Kontakt library (something like 30-40GB) that plays in the free Kontakt Player, but somehow someone's freeware "Yet Another Collection of '808 Samples" Kontakt instrument requires the full-blown version.

That's because you need an (expensive) license to make a Kontakt Player instrument. For someone making something and giving it away for free, it doesn't make much sense to buy a license. Files for full Kontakt don't need a license, but can only be opened in full Kontakt.

You get a far wider range of libraries for Kontakt than you do for SampleTank though. That said, the thing I do wish Kontakt would do is to make its audio routing more intuitive...

Thanks husker - I had seen that, but didn't read it carefully enough; I was copying the presets to the place where snapshots would usually go.

Does anyone have this working in Kontakt 6.2.2? The instrument loads, but it doesn't seem to find any sounds other than the default ones (and I definitely have GBs of samples in the Samples folder)

Not me, but it looks like Sam Fisher from the Splinter Cell series has

10 hours ago, Reid Rosefelt said:

Anybody know how long this offer will last?

https://www.timespace.com/blogs/offers/weekend-deal-70-off-zero-g-inspiring-guitars-kontakt-instrument

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Offer ends Monday 8th June. Requires full version of Kontakt 5.7.0 (will not work with the free Kontakt Player).

It was a little while ago... maybe I'm confusing Obelisk for another plugin that gave me GAS

Thanks for the detailed write-up Piotr. I was thinking that if I was to go for the AmpleSound route, I'd probably wait for their Winter sale

In the meantime, you could always create a symbolic link

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/mklink

I was interested in this a while ago but got put off because someone said that the plugin startup time was quite long. Is this (still?) the case?

8 hours ago, Piotr said:

Forgot mention:  There are also pretty good Amplesound bass VSTis with riffer as tool to avoid painful work with articulation in MIDI directly but not compatible in this area with other manufactures VSTi of course.

Hey Piotr - have you tried both (EZ Bass/Amplesound basses)? I'm potentially interested in getting one (not sure which one yet) and was interested in hearing a few opinions.

Maybe they meant it to mean not-shampoo; like how asymmetrical means not-symmetrical

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Still doesn't make sense... oh well...

3 minutes ago, bayoubill said:

can I get a  men?

I'm confused - do you want a man, or some men?

19 hours ago, ensconced said:

I'm not sure there can be a comparison between CTC-1 and Tapedesk, because I don't think they are in the same category

I mentioned Tapedesk as it's got a mixing-console emulation part (in addition to the tape emulation part)

The demos of Ascend sound pretty good. Anyone have experience of it, compared to other piano libraries?

Has anyone compared CTC-1 with other plugins in the same category, e.g. Overloud's Tapedesk? The convenience of a single plugin instance instead of one on each channel seems like a fairly big plus-point, but how's the sound/CPU usage?

Big Beautiful Door looks interesting - am I right in thinking that it's the 'bigger' version of Gatey Watey? i.e. Big Beautiful Door can do everything that Gatey Watey can and more?

Are there any uses that this is particularly good for?

Apparently yes, for $279.99

http://www.passportmusic.com/products/encore/buy-encore-now/

Suppose I've currently got Komplete (standard) 11 - if I decide to upgrade to Komplete Ultimate 12 for some instruments exclusive to the Ultimate edition, does that mean that when newer versions come out (e.g. version 13) I can only update to Komplete Ultimate 13 [and not Komplete (standard) 13]?

I read a review of this some time ago - it said that it's a good library, but it would be more like a layering/strings special FX library, to complement other string libraries.

19 hours ago, craigb said:

Kids now think "bad" is good and "sick" is awesome...  *Sigh...* 🙄

Hmm... in a few years, deathbed may mean the pinnacle of something