SuperG
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Re: Kontakt 5 half-price this week - worth buying?
2013/07/29 18:20:39
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Woohoo! UPS just dropped off the package! Me so Happy!
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Re: Kontakt 5 half-price this week - worth buying?
2013/07/29 19:04:41
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Well, I was very happy to pick up The Giant Piano for $49.50 USD, as I had been planning to get that one, anyway. I think at some point I will check into Komplete, but I have a lot of other stuff to explore and get used to, first.
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Re: Kontakt 5 half-price this week - worth buying?
2013/07/29 20:08:33
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pentimentosound
Well, I was very happy to pick up The Giant Piano for $49.50 USD, as I had been planning to get that one, anyway. I think at some point I will check into Komplete, but I have a lot of other stuff to explore and get used to, first.
Michael
Yeah I could get this for $19.50...but I don't have the money =( Talk about bad timing....
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Re: Kontakt 5 half-price this week - worth buying?
2013/08/01 07:15:38
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hey i just received my disks.....they installed a lot quicker than I inspected. When I looked at the properties of the Kontakt library file, the size of the file is 23gb not the 40+ I expected.
I still have to download the retro synths but I think thats only about 3/4gb of samples......Is this the same for everyone?? Compressed files???
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Re: Kontakt 5 half-price this week - worth buying?
2013/08/01 07:43:16
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godino
hey i just received my disks.....they installed a lot quicker than I inspected. When I looked at the properties of the Kontakt library file, the size of the file is 23gb not the 40+ I expected.
I still have to download the retro synths but I think thats only about 3/4gb of samples......Is this the same for everyone?? Compressed files???
My understanding is that the samples are compressed from ~43 GB down to ~23 GB.
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Re: Kontakt 5 half-price this week - worth buying?
2013/08/01 08:05:35
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Thanks for replying ---- I thought it must be something like that, ----- kontakt must be able to read and process the compressed files.
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Re: Kontakt 5 half-price this week - worth buying?
2013/08/01 19:34:44
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Just checked...my K4 library is 45GB (53,603 files in 5,951 directories!). The compression feature was introduced with K4 but the libraries were still uncompressed on the distribution disks. If you wanted to you could compress them yourself. Starting with K5 they come compressed already (even though nothing in the library changed between 4 and 5). This isn't just a favor they're doing for you - they like compressed files at NI because compressed files can't be opened by any program other than Kontakt.
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Re: Kontakt 5 half-price this week - worth buying?
2013/08/01 21:16:11
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If you've just gotten Kontakt and have a Groove3 pass it's well worth watching Eli Krantzberg's video tutorial on Kontakt. I've stumbled my way blind through this program for the better part of a year, mainly to get quick access to my libraries, and I had never really explored the full power of the program (who's got time to read the Kontakt manual??). However in just a day of watching these videos I've learned more about its power and versatility than I did in a year, and realized just how much of it I have been missing out on. I now understand how Kontakt is structured and what you can do with it. Definitely worth purchasing this course if you don't have a pass.
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Re: Kontakt 5 half-price this week - worth buying?
2013/08/01 22:37:14
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+1 on the Groove3 pass. Eli does a Great job on all of his tutorials.
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Re: Kontakt 5 half-price this week - worth buying?
2013/08/01 23:40:59
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Doesn't say it works w/XP.
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Re: Kontakt 5 half-price this week - worth buying?
2013/08/02 04:30:31
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The Band19
Doesn't say it works w/XP.
It's only supported on Win7 / 8. I had it working on Vista 64 before I got my new DAW, and I have seen reports that it works on XP but I guess the risk is with you if there are problems. Cakewalk, Native Instruments and FXpansion all droping support for OS earlier than Win 7 brought forward my purchase of a new DAW by half a year.
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Re: Kontakt 5 half-price this week - worth buying?
2013/08/02 07:19:28
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Bit - thanks for the background info - I suppose as long as the compressed samples dont degrade the performance, then I understand their position, saves us a bit of space too.
Sharke - I've only had the software for a couple of days, but I can already appreciate the size
of the package I could easily spend a year just messing about(no change there then), so thanks for the tip about Groove3
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Re: Kontakt 5 half-price this week - worth buying?
2013/08/04 18:33:43
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I got mine last wed and have been playing mostly with the West Africa Library. that's a nicely structured program...I think I will check out that groove 3 video I use such a small portion of these programs. but I am slowly understanding all the ins and outs that confused me for so long
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Re: Kontakt 5 half-price this week - worth buying?
2013/08/11 14:43:24
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I'm probably chiming in a little late, but then I purchased K5 several months ago when NI offered it for half price - in fact I thought it was even cheaper than that, I recall paying only around 100 GBP for it. It's a 'must have' I think, particularly because there is so much free and cheap content available for it. Plus the supplied content is pretty good. And it's solid, haven't had any glitches (albeit I use Reaper having abandoned Sonar years ago).
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