💡New VSTBuzz Deal: Diamond Symphony Orchestra by Kirk Hunter Studio - 96% OFF

[cclarry]

Diamond Symphony Orchestra will be offered for only $20 down from the regular $499.

This offer ends on October 26, 2025 at midnight EST.

https://vstbuzz.com/deals/diamond-symphony-orchestra-by-kirk-hunter

[MusicMan]

I'd almost considered grabbing this at $45 a few times on sale.. glad I didn't!

Not that it wouldn't have been worth it at $45, but knowing I could grab it for $20 now instead makes me glad I didn't.

I've picked up some decent libraries since then, but I do wonder at such a low cost whether it's worth grabbing simply for a different flavor, or inspiration. I've read some reasonably positive comments about it, although it is a much older library these days.

[msmcleod]

I jumped on this deal... be aware though, that the current AWS outage is causing issues with Pulse (their download manager) registering the serial number.

It'll no doubt be sorted in a few hours.

[MusicMan]

12 minutes ago, msmcleod said:

I jumped on this deal... be aware though, that the current AWS outage is causing issues with Pulse (their download manager) registering the serial number.

It'll no doubt be sorted in a few hours.

Will be interesting to hear your thoughts on it once you've been able to get it installed and had a chance to play around with it Mark. 

[Esteban Villanova]

I have it and like it. The amount of patches it has makes it confusing to use. Stick to the TVEC 4 and TVEC 3 patches for the best quality. Also, they're very dry, so you'll need to create your own "soundstage" using reverbs and whatnot. 

[kitekrazy]

 It was my first real library.  Since I've gathered so much I no longer use it.

If you are a library hoarder you buy it.

[fjz]

Ah man??? I really could've used this deal a couple of months ago.

[Amberwolf]

For thsoe that have this, could you tell me if the samples themselves are stored as wave files, or ncw? Or one big integrated file? Or ??

If they are wav or ncw I can use the sounds themselves even though I can't use the kontakt instrument itself.

[kitekrazy]

4 hours ago, Amberwolf said:

For thsoe that have this, could you tell me if the samples themselves are stored as wave files, or ncw? Or one big integrated file? Or ??

If they are wav or ncw I can use the sounds themselves even though I can't use the kontakt instrument itself.

no wav.............otherwise it's over 70gb.

Full Kontakt is needed

[Amberwolf]

39 minutes ago, kitekrazy1 said:

no wav.............otherwise it's over 70gb.

Full Kontakt is needed

I know what it says on the sales page for it.  

 

The question is, when you have it installed, what format are the samples in the folder?   

Normally these are found in the Samples folder within the instrument (or each individual instrument if there are multiples). 

 

many Kontakt instruments actually have their samples as plain wav files.  Many others have them as NCW, which I can convert to wav.    So both those types I can use.

[Esteban Villanova]

11 minutes ago, Amberwolf said:

I know what it says on the sales page for it.  

 

The question is, when you have it installed, what format are the samples in the folder?   

Normally these are found in the Samples folder within the instrument (or each individual instrument if there are multiples). 

 

many Kontakt instruments actually have their samples as plain wav files.  Many others have them as NCW, which I can convert to wav.    So both those types I can use.

They are .ncw

[kitekrazy]

1 hour ago, Amberwolf said:

I know what it says on the sales page for it.  

 

The question is, when you have it installed, what format are the samples in the folder?   

Normally these are found in the Samples folder within the instrument (or each individual instrument if there are multiples). 

 

many Kontakt instruments actually have their samples as plain wav files.  Many others have them as NCW, which I can convert to wav.    So both those types I can use.

When I originally bought it as a crossgrade from the defunct Gigastudio version.  Those were wavs. back then like 20 years ago.

It's highly unlikely you will ever see an orchestra library in wav format these days.  Then developers with large files don't use simple naming conventions either.

Sure simple Kontakt libraries might have wav files but nothing like this. 

Anything developed after Kontakt 2 can't be converted to other sample formats either. 

I'm not sure why you would want to go down that road.

[Amberwolf]

On 10/20/2025 at 5:41 PM, Esteban Villanova said:

They are .ncw

Thanks!   

 

That means I can use it in some form, at least, and it is worth buying.    

 

[kitekrazy]

11 hours ago, Amberwolf said:

Thanks!   

 

That means I can use it in some form, at least, and it is worth buying.    

 

I don't think you can unless you have full Kontakt.  ncw is write protected

[Lionel]

Is Kirk Hunter still in business?

A year ago they had a farewell sale:

 

Edited October 22 by Lionel

[MusicMan]

Giving this one a bump as it's available again for 7 days.

I ended up buying it last time and it made it's way into a track already. I wouldn't say it's all great, but definitely enough stuff in there I like that made it worthwhile.

https://vstbuzz.com/deals/diamond-symphony-orchestra-by-kirk-hunter/

[Amberwolf]

So far I've used some of it a bit.  I've converted some of certain types of the samples to wave and used them directly in some of the Drywater Mars tracks as accents and transitions and enhancements (as I don't have Kontakt to use it as it's designed to work). 

 

The conversion process is a bit tedious as only a certain number of them (around 80 or so) can be converted at once due to windows command line length limitations (I think), so I've just been doing a few at a time in different parts to try them out.