Comment - Kontakt - Success in creating my own Kontakt instruments

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Comment - Kontakt - Success in creating my own Kontakt instruments

I have an external sound module that's on the fritz and will be going away soon.
 
There are a few precious sounds on it that I really wanted to keep, but the rest of it is fine if it goes away.
 
I studied up on YouTube how to create a custom instrument in Kontakt by pulling in external samples and lining everything up to work, including velocities and note changes etc.
 
To create one of these instruments, especially if like me you're focusing in on certain sounds (rather than say a whole library), I've found it's really not that bad.  It just takes some time and patience to organize the pieces (the sample sounds) and then map those in.
 
Just commenting on it since it was something I'd suspected could be done, but hadn't looked into it before.
 
All in all it's kind of fun, but not something I would want to do as a frequent thing.
 
But I'll be glad to have the freedom of not having the old sound module but still having the sounds available, and now having them in a soft synth format. 

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    Re: Comment - Kontakt - Success in creating my own Kontakt instruments 2013/12/31 10:46:00 (permalink)
    Makes you appreciate how much work goes into a commercial library, doesn't it? 


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    Re: Comment - Kontakt - Success in creating my own Kontakt instruments 2013/12/31 16:17:57 (permalink)
    If I could make money doing it it actually would be kind of fun work. It's work for sure, but it's also kind of fun. But yes, hats off to the folks that make libraries - especially really good libraries.

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    Re: Comment - Kontakt - Success in creating my own Kontakt instruments 2013/12/31 22:20:49 (permalink)
    I'd go stark-raving nuts hand-trimming and normalizing 10,000 files. And Kontakt's scripting language is absolutely dreadful as programming languages go - you're in spaghetti-land within minutes.
     
    Of course, sampling a rompler or synth you don't have to deal with any of that.


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    Re: Comment - Kontakt - Success in creating my own Kontakt instruments 2014/01/01 14:58:45 (permalink)
    I had a notion I'd like to make sample libraries for my vintage guitars and amps. Once I investigated what was involved, I bailed. So much work and nothing intuitive about it. Kontakt libraries are cheap when you consider how much work is involved.

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    Re: Comment - Kontakt - Success in creating my own Kontakt instruments 2014/01/05 14:32:53 (permalink)
    What is the link to the video on making the Kontakt sounds?  I may need to do this, 
     
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