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Kontakt Review

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In this Kontakt review we’ll be looking at Native Instruments’ robust and versatile soft-sampler. Kontakt 7 operates as either a standalone or as a plugin within your DAW. It delivers tremendous value for its price, but how much you get out of that depends on your musical goals and willingness to delve into the guts of the sounds you are working with.

Note that there are two versions of Kontakt: Kontakt Player and Kontakt Full. The player version is free. However, you can only load licensed libraries and the editing tools are limited to 15 minutes’ use. Many developers do not go through Native Instruments due to the costs involved in obtaining the license, so their libraries will only work in Kontakt Full. You’ll also find that the Player version comes with much less built in content. This works out to about 6GB instead of roughly 55GB with Kontakt Full. For this Kontakt review, we will mostly be looking at the full version.
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Studio Drummer by Native Instruments – Review

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By Jason Cullimore / November 09, 2011

Introduction

Studio Drummer (US$169.00) is a sampled drum library published by Native Instruments. It is one of the first sampled instruments designed to be loaded exclusively into Kontakt 5 or the free Kontakt 5 Player. Those who have Kontakt 4 or earlier will not be able to load Studio Drummer unless they upgrade Kontakt to version 5.

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A Guide To Virtual Pianos

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A Guide To Virtual Pianos
by Dov Waterman

There isn’t anything out there in the world of digital music reproduction that beats the sound of a real instrument. Nevertheless, the piano is one of those instruments that composers, performers and audio engineers have sought to emulate over the years.

With ultra-powerful computers with higher sample rates and more memory, it has become a viable alternative for many of us to incorporate (albeit representations of ) high-class and immaculately recorded pianos in our work.

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