I wouldn't mind hearing someones fat Brass arrangement using only TTS-1. Just for curiousity sakes. Sometimes I have been pleasantly surprised by the sounds achieved with lower priced librarys in the hands of talented midi orchestrators. Take Garriton for example, out of the box I think it sounds aweful, but in the hands of a knowledgable Garriton user, it can sound pretty decent. If you are simply adding a brass or string section "pad" to your arrangement, you can easily get away with Garriton out of the box or even TTS-1. Layered, panned, verbed...etc. But if you are doing a big band swing song with lots of neat brass articulations, you will have to invest in a decent library to be realistic. Chris Hein horns sound amazing in the demo's.

Do I need to buy some sort of Kontact player first or does Chris Hein horns package come with the player - like the Garritan libraries (they come with Aria)?