shawn, I use Komplete. that has kontakt and battery in..
battery is really aimed as a drum sampler and is more straight forward. kontakt does more BUT you can go deep with that , editing etc.
But you can do that externally in other things.. e.g. audacity / wavosaurus
remember Kontakt is £289... battery is £139 (here in the UK anyway) ... so you'd expect a lot more for your money..
much the same with a hardware sampler... an mpc vs.. a normal rack mount akai.. each is aimed at different things.
dunno about battery 64 bit, but I know they released or are releasing a newer version of Kontakt which is 64 bit.. so maybe battery is coming soon also.
your looking for something like a step sequencer..which is in some of the versions of sonar.. 7 SE/PE onwards I guess. errm there are free things that you can use to route the signal thru but I haven't got the mag that had a list of them here (maybe someone who has the CM special about 100 plugs) can have a look
you can do some quite mad things with beatburner.. try that, it's free
http://beatburner.co.uk has a step sequencer also.
http://vemberaudio.se/shortcircuit.php
post edited by Fog - 2008/11/17 22:48:22