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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - UP TO 75% OFF!!!
2011/11/22 11:09:55
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I'd love to hear from people who own GPO, Miroslav and other libraries in the same price range as where Diamond now is weigh in on Diamond vs other libraries in the current price range.
- Peter
I just purchased Diamond and the first words out of my mouth when I started playing it were "Oh my God"! I own and now have put on the back burner GPO4, Miroslav CE, Kontakt’s Orchestral strings and Kontakt’s Sesion Strings. Diamond blows them all out of the water IMO.
A super thanks for this "GB/pricing experiment" as it put a pro sounding orchestra into this hobbyist’s hands.
Awesome, Mario. That's exactly what I hoped and believed would happen. So, it's great to read a post from someone really enjoying the library so much and your reaction is completely consistent with my own experience. - Peter
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - UP TO 75% OFF!!!
2011/11/22 13:06:26
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I bought Infinite Player @ one of those $11 deals from Esoundz.......will the Diamond Collection play on this player (I don't have a full version of Kontakt)?
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - UP TO 75% OFF!!!
2011/11/22 13:20:00
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Checked out system requirements....I think I'm only entitled to getting Pop/Rock Strings
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - UP TO 75% OFF!!!
2011/11/22 13:25:05
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I bought Infinite Player @ one of those $11 deals from Esoundz.......will the Diamond Collection play on this player (I don't have a full version of Kontakt)?
Diamond requires the full version of KONTAKT. Pop/Rock Strings includes the KONTAKT Player (or, you can say, works with it). Infinite Player is really just Sonic Reality's name for their licensing of the KONTAKT Player. Pop/Rock Strings is really just a lighter version (okay, PRS is 8 GB, which isn't that light!) of Concert Strings II that includes solo strings, whole, half and quarter divisions. There's still nothing that competes with it in terms of realistic sounding KONTAKT strings libraries with sophisticated scripting for its list price of $249 USD (which it will return to this weekend). While the name (which yours truly came up with) clearly positions it as a rock and pop strings library, but it can be used for any style. I came up with the Pop/Rock Strings name because I thought the strings worked super well for pop, rock, singer/songwriter type genres and I think that not all of the string libraries on the market sound right for those styles as most of the top string library devs with pro libraries are primarily targeting professionals and those trying to make it in the biz writing for movies/tv/games and the sound they go after doesn't work necessarily that well for pop and rock, imo. I originally recommended pricing it at $299 USD, so I'm a bit astounded that anyone takes more than a second to make the choice! It's turned out to be KHS' best seller at it's full list price of $249 USD. - Peter
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - UP TO 75% OFF!!!
2011/11/23 02:57:06
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So.... I purchased the Diamond Orchestra Pack. It appears I can only download a maximum of 6 of the required 97 zip files at any given time.... and these are downloading at a blazing 180 kB/s.  I decided on this purchase after seeing the enthusiasm here and listening to the demos. I'm sure glad this program was offered at 75% off..... based on the poor service to actually obtain the software, I wouldn't have paid a penny more without already asking for a complete refund. I guess I'm just not as patient as most others are. 
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - UP TO 75% OFF!!!
2011/11/23 03:30:39
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It appears I can only download a maximum of 6 of the required 97 zip files at any given time.... and these are downloading at a blazing 180 kB/s. I decided on this purchase after seeing the enthusiasm here and listening to the demos. I'm sure glad this program was offered at 75% off..... based on the poor service to actually obtain the software, I wouldn't have paid a penny more without already asking for a complete refund. I guess I'm just not as patient as most others are.
Come on, yes its frustrating but you can't say its poor service from Kirk. He was responded very fast, on a Sunday, to my request for extra time to complete the downloads, and based on feed back he has increased the default download period by a couple of days. The servers belong to Amazon and they are about as good as it gets. The speed of the download is a function of your internet connection and if you have 6 files coming in at 180 Kb/s that's 1080 Kb/s. I was getting no better that 70 kBs downlaoding a single file, so if I understand you correctly you are getting 15 times as fast as I did. Then I had the problem of my ISP throtteling the download speeds down to the bp/s level. I would certainly not advise downloading six files simultaniously if you want reliable downloads, most applications restrict you to three. I found it a lot safer to do one at a time. . I am happy now I have completed my tiny 18 GB download of Concert Brass.
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - UP TO 75% OFF!!!
2011/11/23 04:30:46
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Good points Glyn. There have been periods where the servers have been slower. As you pointed out, the slowness can be attributable to one or more of many factors, one of which could be the server, the user's ISP throttling bandwidth, etc. As far as the charge made by the poster that his download speed reflects poor service by the developer -- no doubt, attributable to posting in a moment of rage during a moment of frustration due to a slow connection -- I would disagree with those remarks strongly. Amazon is easily one of the most reliable choices for independent software developers to deliver their software (ftr, my background is managing/leading online marketing at large brands; one well known brand website I managed had around 12 million unique visitors per month and would spike when we had a product announcement to hit 10x or more regular traffic; I'm the one who recommended that KHS consider Amazon for hosting files). Out of over 400 people in this GB, there have been people who've reported experiencing slowness during periods (no doubt, there are probably others who haven't reported, but experienced, slowness); however, I also have PMs from people who had very fast connections during those same periods. But slow downloads happening periodically doesn't surprise me after 16 yrs of managing online marketing at large brand websites, given the large size of these files and the success of the Group Buy and I think there's been a good deal of communication on the topic so that a reasonable person would be aware of the possibilities prior to joining the GB or really, any sample developer GB that has files this big and is this successful. However, if anyone experiences extreme slowness, I would stop the connection and restart it. If that doesn't result in a faster connection, I would wait and retry after waiting a couple of hours. I would expect that this week, the last week of the GB, we will experience periods of slowness, but Amazon scales quickly and is very reliable. For any download as large as these I would strongly recommend using a Download Manager application that allows you to resume downloads. I echo Glyn's advice about not downloading six files at once -- regardless of whether it's Amazon or any other server when you're downloading files this large.
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - UP TO 75% OFF!!!
2011/11/23 07:23:08
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John, as others have mentioned, Kirk is not to blame for slow downloads. Amazon owns the servers. Over the years Kirk has been very responsive to user questions and concerns via email and user forums, and his discounts for loyal customers and via sales and GBs have been more than generous. As Peter mentioned, and has been mentioned many times before: use a download manager. Aside from getting safe resumes, a download manager will split a download into chunks and download each chunk simultaneously. So if a particular amazon pipe only gives you, say, 150KB/s transfer, a download manager will download 10 x 150KB/s = 1500KB/s, or however many threads you have it configured for. A server's support for "resuming a download" actually gives the client the ability to download mulitple chunks of the source content in any order. HTTP provides a "Range" header, where the client requests a certain range of bytes; the feature is either supported or not by the server. Of course, your ISP could restrict bandwidth arbitrarily based on total content size. In recent years bandwidth throttling has been an issue with some bigger ISPs.
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - UP TO 75% OFF!!!
2011/11/23 09:38:46
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Peter: I figure for $11, it was worth getting the Infinite Player because it apparently came with some kind of bonus library.....I think the capsules are the same things you can get with Sampletank (can anyone verify this?)
Anyway, I definitely want the Diamond Pack but now I'm reading that the full version of Kontakt is getting hard to find.....I'm not interested in Komplete
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - UP TO 75% OFF!!!
2011/11/23 09:44:32
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Gaffpro
I'm reading that the full version of Kontakt is getting hard to find Its still easy to find, direct from NI, retailers do not seem to have copies advertised. Its odd. Maybe its a move to direct marketing and cutting out the middleman????
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - 75% OFF DISCOUNT REACHED!!!
2011/11/23 09:47:08
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I am on Comcast here in the states and am currently in the process of downloading the Diamond libaries. I have previously downloaded the Concert Brass 2 and Concert Strings 2 libraries. I am NOT using a download manager but am using just the Chrome browser and keeping 6 downloads open at once. I am seeing a consistent 30-40 Mb/sec download speed. Splitting files into chunks happens naturally as a consequence of being sent over a TCP/IP network. If your connection is going to get interrupted, a download manager may help you but the real problem is your connection getting dropped in the first place which should NOT be happening.
Kirk has nothing to do with any problems you are seeing and I must echo the praise for his rapid response to, in my case, some exceedingly dumb questions.
If I were to make two suggestions to help the process they would be:
1) Allow FTP transfers of the files for download. This is WAY more efficient than going through HTML
2) Try to push the contents out to the edge more by using Akamai content mirrors (or equivalent) especially for overseas customers.
Amazon may be doing the second suggestion but it seems unlikely given some of the reports.
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - 75% OFF DISCOUNT REACHED!!!
2011/11/23 11:49:07
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@Gaffpro I'm very familiar with Sonic Reality's product lines. I own a lot of their stuff (mainly vintage synth and drum libraries, but I also own all of their powered by SampleTank synths, liked Sampletron and Miroslav) and consider Dave/Squids a friend. Watch in the next month - maybe even the next week, NI will have the KONTAKT 5 Crossgrade (? I think that's what they call it) version (which you know qualify to receive with Infinite Player) -- probably for 50% off. To Glyn's question, NI stopped having retail partners carry KONTAKT (last year, I believe) and instead retail partners focus on KOMPLETE and NI sells KONTAKT direct. - Peter
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - 75% OFF DISCOUNT REACHED!!!
2011/11/23 13:29:43
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Hey guys. Can anyone post a screen shot on how the zips are to be extracted?
The directions are VERY confusing compared to how other Kontakt instrument directories are setup.
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2011/11/23 13:53:07
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Hey guys. Can anyone post a screen shot on how the zips are to be extracted?
The directions are VERY confusing compared to how other Kontakt instrument directories are setup.
If you look earlier in this topic thread you can see I posted a message about an issue I had when I used WinZip to unpack the files. If you use 7-Zip as recommended you won't have it. Instructions are as follows (this works as I did it subsequently for Concert Brass 2 and am still downloading Diamond) Create directory to put all your Zip files in. Download first file under the graphic where it says "Download" and use "Save as" to put it in the directory you created. Now download all the zip files into that same directory. After everything is done, use 7-Zip to unpack each of the zip files and use the option "Extract here" to have it in the same directory and with the correct structure. You can move your zips out to some archive location if you want at this point. From Kontakt get in the file browser. You can then navigate to the name of the directory which you created to house all these files. Using Concert Strings 2 as an example, you will see a folder called "00_TVEC3_Instruments and sub-folders for instruments under that which contain the specific variations you can load in Kontakt. If you navigate to the 01_violin_instruments directory you will see a variety of violin instruments you can load for example.
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - 75% OFF DISCOUNT REACHED!!!
2011/11/23 14:01:56
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bapu
Hey guys. Can anyone post a screen shot on how the zips are to be extracted?
The directions are VERY confusing compared to how other Kontakt instrument directories are setup.
If you look earlier in this topic thread you can see I posted a message about an issue I had when I used WinZip to unpack the files. If you use 7-Zip as recommended you won't have it. Instructions are as follows (this works as I did it subsequently for Concert Brass 2 and am still downloading Diamond)
Create directory to put all your Zip files in.
Download first file under the graphic where it says "Download" and use "Save as" to put it in the directory you created.
Now download all the zip files into that same directory.
After everything is done, use 7-Zip to unpack each of the zip files and use the option "Extract here" to have it in the same directory and with the correct structure.
You can move your zips out to some archive location if you want at this point.
From Kontakt get in the file browser. You can then navigate to the name of the directory which you created to house all these files. Using Concert Strings 2 as an example, you will see a folder called "00_TVEC3_Instruments and sub-folders for instruments under that which contain the specific variations you can load in Kontakt. If you navigate to the 01_violin_instruments directory you will see a variety of violin instruments you can load for example.
Thanks. Are you saying that these three products (CB2,CS2,Diamond) do not have a Library similar to Pop/Rock Strings? You know, with an Product Icon (on the main Library page) with a instrument browser.
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - 75% OFF DISCOUNT REACHED!!!
2011/11/23 14:27:08
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bapu
Hey guys. Can anyone post a screen shot on how the zips are to be extracted?
The directions are VERY confusing compared to how other Kontakt instrument directories are setup.
If you look earlier in this topic thread you can see I posted a message about an issue I had when I used WinZip to unpack the files. If you use 7-Zip as recommended you won't have it. Instructions are as follows (this works as I did it subsequently for Concert Brass 2 and am still downloading Diamond)
Create directory to put all your Zip files in.
Download first file under the graphic where it says "Download" and use "Save as" to put it in the directory you created.
Now download all the zip files into that same directory.
After everything is done, use 7-Zip to unpack each of the zip files and use the option "Extract here" to have it in the same directory and with the correct structure.
You can move your zips out to some archive location if you want at this point.
From Kontakt get in the file browser. You can then navigate to the name of the directory which you created to house all these files. Using Concert Strings 2 as an example, you will see a folder called "00_TVEC3_Instruments and sub-folders for instruments under that which contain the specific variations you can load in Kontakt. If you navigate to the 01_violin_instruments directory you will see a variety of violin instruments you can load for example.
Thanks. Are you saying that these three products (CB2,CS2,Diamond) do not have a Library similar to Pop/Rock Strings? You know, with an Product Icon (on the main Library page) with a instrument browser.
Yes that is correct, it does not have the pretty library picture. It confused me at first also. Just navigating to it using the files menu pulls up the right stuff. You then get the really nice user interface for the instruments so I am sure you will shortly very happy! The sound is incredible.
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - 75% OFF DISCOUNT REACHED!!!
2011/11/23 14:31:33
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - 75% OFF DISCOUNT REACHED!!!
2011/11/23 14:35:45
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Never once did I say I personally blame Kirk for slow downloads.
Here's what I did state: "based on the poor service to actually obtain the software" which may be a bit ambiguous I'll admit. So please allow me to explain:
To offer an 80GB software package with no other option than to download IS an issue AFAIC. However, I knew that prior to my purchase. I don't know about you.... but my time has a value. To manage several hours (days?) of multiple downloads to just use the software is less than great service options. If there was an option to receive this on DVD at an extra charge I would have jumped on it. And the reason I did order this was the 75% discount being offered.... otherwise I do not feel I would have paid anywhere near retail knowing this inconvenience.
I'm simply stating my experience.... there was no "rage" or "anger" in me, or any animosity towards Kirk at all.
PEACE
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - 75% OFF DISCOUNT REACHED!!!
2011/11/23 14:40:45
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Splitting files into chunks happens naturally as a consequence of being sent over a TCP/IP network. If your connection is going to get interrupted, a download manager may help you but the real problem is your connection getting dropped in the first place which should NOT be happening.
That's a different kind of splitting than the splitting that a download managr does. TCP/IP packets can be delivered out of order or not at all, and TCP itself makes sure that everything gets put in it's right place. Missed/bad packets are retransmitted, etc. All of that is happening at a very low level... like just above the level of the network adapter hardware. Sitting on top of TCP/IP are application-level protocols, like HTTP... A browser, download manager, etc. speaks HTTP, not TCP/IP. HTTP is where the resume and file splitting happens... To the browser/DM, HTTP content looks like a steady stream of bytes, whether in resumable chunks or not, and TCP/IP makes sure those byte streams are properly ordered and delivered at the network level... And so concludes out network engineering lesson for today. 
If I were to make two suggestions to help the process they would be:
1) Allow FTP transfers of the files for download. This is WAY more efficient than going through HTML
2) Try to push the contents out to the edge more by using Akamai content mirrors (or equivalent) especially for overseas customers.
Amazon may be doing the second suggestion but it seems unlikely given some of the reports.
FTP is generally more reliable than HTTP (not HTML, which is the Hypertext language), because of how FTP delivers files between targets. However, a DM working on HTTP basically fills in those gaps between FTP and HTTP. Conent mirrors will only work if their secured in some way... these are not HTML pages and JPG images, but purchased ZIP files. The mirrors need to authenticate the downloader, limit # downloads, etc. etc. Besides, amazon's "cloud" is already geographically dispersed... There may be some natual chokepoints between ISP carriers and amazon's ISPs. If you're running on the same fiber backbone as amazon's ISP then you 'll have pretty much "max" bandwidth... if you have to jump network to network to get from your ISP to theirs, then that could affect throughput. These fiber backbones are so big now that unless you are on some Mom & Pop ISP, you should get plenty of bandwidth. The internet we know today has been upgraded over the last 15 or so years to handle movie streaming, etc.
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - 75% OFF DISCOUNT REACHED!!!
2011/11/23 15:25:41
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Keith, I'm sure you've stated this in perfect detail above (in technical terms), but in laymen's terms, what's the best way to download this 80Gb file?
(I have a DSL modem (through Century-Link)).
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - 75% OFF DISCOUNT REACHED!!!
2011/11/23 17:04:45
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Never once did I say I personally blame Kirk for slow downloads.
Here's what I did state: "based on the poor service to actually obtain the software" which may be a bit ambiguous I'll admit. So please allow me to explain:
To offer an 80GB software package with no other option than to download IS an issue AFAIC. However, I knew that prior to my purchase. I don't know about you.... but my time has a value. To manage several hours (days?) of multiple downloads to just use the software is less than great service options. If there was an option to receive this on DVD at an extra charge I would have jumped on it. And the reason I did order this was the 75% discount being offered.... otherwise I do not feel I would have paid anywhere near retail knowing this inconvenience.
I'm simply stating my experience.... there was no "rage" or "anger" in me, or any animosity towards Kirk at all.
PEACE
The libraries are available on hard drives normally, but that takes substantially more labor and materials than delivering digitally. That's part of how we made this happen at 75% off. If you wanted to pay for getting the libraries in that manner, you can email Kirk. But I can tell you, your not going to get the libraries anywhere close to these prices. Concert Strings II is $799 USD list. Part of the way we got these prices down. I negotiated on this personally, and I do 100% agree with you and empathize that there's no real great way of downloading files this large. But I'm going to have to do a reality check here. These libraries are going for 75% off and even more if you're a past customer, downloads were the way we were able to reduce the costs to get to that price point. It was a compromise. The hard drive route would have easily meant, at minimum, an extra $150 USD in materials and labor to each library -- and frankly, it would have taken temporary resources that wouldn't be easy to scale that quickly (imagine seeing your sales increase by 10x during one month, having to deal with the burden on customer service, tech support and then add customization and physical product on top). If you're willing to add on an additional $150-200 USD plus shipping to your library (that's a guess), PM me and I'll see about getting you set up with KHS. But this GB simply would not be able to happen at these discounts w/o digital downloads. Even though I know they are so huge, they're not a quick download even for folks who are downloading at very fast speeds. BTW, I've noticed everyone who reports the fastest download speeds in the US that mentions their ISP states Comcast. - Peter
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - 75% OFF DISCOUNT REACHED!!!
2011/11/23 17:24:26
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I'm not sure what's so hard about downloading large files. Turn computer on, start download, go do something else for a couple of days. you'll still get the files faster than anything but next day air.
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Amour013
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - 75% OFF DISCOUNT REACHED!!!
2011/11/23 18:43:50
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With Diamond Orchestra, there are 97 separate files to download totaling about 80GB. I'm only able to download a max of 6 separate files at any given time. So it's not hard per se...... but it is tedious. 
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - 75% OFF DISCOUNT REACHED!!!
2011/11/23 20:47:38
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edrummist
@Gaffpro I'm very familiar with Sonic Reality's product lines. I own a lot of their stuff (mainly vintage synth and drum libraries, but I also own all of their powered by SampleTank synths, liked Sampletron and Miroslav) and consider Dave/Squids a friend. Watch in the next month - maybe even the next week, NI will have the KONTAKT 5 Crossgrade (? I think that's what they call it) version (which you know qualify to receive with Infinite Player) -- probably for 50% off. To Glyn's question, NI stopped having retail partners carry KONTAKT (last year, I believe) and instead retail partners focus on KOMPLETE and NI sells KONTAKT direct. - Peter
Peter: Thanks for the info on that...I will look out for that sale...in any event I'll get the Kirk Hunter stuff now while I can
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - 75% OFF DISCOUNT REACHED!!!
2011/11/23 22:08:51
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Peter-
Thank you for the explanation .... I really do appreciate you taking the time to respond.
I ended up taking the suggestion and doing what I should have from the beginning..... I installed a good Internet Download Manager. I got up to file 20 doing the manual method and now I have files 21 thru 97 in a cue and they're downloading now at and average 380 KB/sec.
I should have the complete library late tonight or early tomorrow at this rate.
Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and input.... and Happy Holidays!
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Diamond some missing samples?
2011/11/24 04:56:34
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I finally got DIAMOND download, unziped and installed. However, when I load solo violins I get a warning that some samples are missing. I found this on the strat full and like solo violins.
I checked and for the non violin instruments, I am having no problems.
Is anyone else finding some samples missing from solo violin instruments?
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Re:Diamond some missing samples?
2011/11/24 10:12:54
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I just checked a number of the solo violins and I had no problems. If you could give me the exact patch name, number and location I would gladly check for you.
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - UP TO 75% OFF!!!
2011/11/24 11:21:59
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Gaffpro
Peter: I figure for $11, it was worth getting the Infinite Player because it apparently came with some kind of bonus library.....I think the capsules are the same things you can get with Sampletank (can anyone verify this?)
Anyway, I definitely want the Diamond Pack but now I'm reading that the full version of Kontakt is getting hard to find.....I'm not interested in Komplete
@Gaffpro Native Instrument just launched their big Thanksgiving Day sale and KONTAKT 5 is now 50% off for the full version ($199.50 USD, unfortunately, they're not discounting the crossgrade version, but this price is cheaper than the price of the crossgrade version, plus they're throwing in Reto Machines MK2). Here's the link: http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/kontakt-5/?page=2529
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Re:Kirk Hunter String/Brass Libraries GROUP BUY - UP TO 75% OFF!!!
2011/11/24 19:26:58
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Peter: Thanks for the info!
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Re:Diamond some missing samples?
2011/11/24 19:58:45
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MarioD
I just checked a number of the solo violins and I had no problems. If you could give me the exact patch name, number and location I would gladly check for you.
Thanks for asking, but I think I got it working now. I deleted the suspected folders with missing samples; then I re-extracted the downloads to the preferred location. Next, I opened some solo Instruments in Kontakt, and told it to search folders. Everything is fine now. Thanks. BTW, this DIAMOND is really more detailed than either Miroslav or/and GPO; they have their places, but this DIAMOND is sparklingly complex in the best way. I can't wait to see what Concert Strings II--do know how can it be an improvement--can't wait to hear it.
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