Kontakt 5 Player free and X2 Producer. Should I check this out?

One of our kind forum members (sidroe) just mentioned the Kontakt 5 free thingy in another thread. I'm wondering since I have Producer with all the bells and whistles (upgrade from the X1 Suite) whether it's going to add much to my current slew of synths/libraries. 

http://www.native-instrum...akt-5-player/?content=

Cheers.

Right on. I hear a lot about it on here but didn't realize there was a freebie. Thought maybe it was just a demo or it would just be poorer quality duplication of what I already have in Sonar. I usually try to avoid installing free stuff but it's NI so I guess it's safe.

The player may be free but I don't think it has much value without the accompanying sample libraries. Many of the libraries provide the player.

Regards,

chefmike8888


I just got it last week.
I had to, Bapu made me.  


Mike

Wow. That thing sounds crazy!

UPDATE: The free factory content is right there with the player download:
http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/kontakt-5-player/?page=2483
 
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NI offers some free content for the free player.  In the free content are good basses, a good rhodes, a clav, a solid drum kit, and quite a few other things. 

Sorry I can't find the link for the free stuff, but I posted it on another thread.  If you crawl NI's site you will it.

A lot of good libraries (like Vir 2) use the free player.

Re: the full player:
I just cross-graded to the full Kontakt 5 and got the full sample content (1,000+ insturments).  It is great but didn't do much for me since I already had Vienna, Hollywood, Ivory 2, RealGuitar, RealStrat, RealLPC, Acoustic Legends, Electri6ity, and other stuff.  However, if you don't have a big sample library, the full Kontakt 5 is a great deal.

I see no reason not to have it. You get a bunch of free sounds and you are also able to purchase many excellent NI libraries in the future should you be in the market for such things. 

I installed it yesterday, and hoping the paid Traktor will work.  But for some reason the Guitar Rig 5 dll isn't being picked up by X2.  GR5 is not really 'free' - the UI is but any presets default to a 30 minute demo.  Player seems to have a small amount of sample content which might be handy.

When you sign the EULA you may need to speak German.  I toggled between English/German but it made no difference.

Prost!

BTW, the Rhodes with the vibrato turned on really nails that Max Middleton Rhodes on Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow album. That is one of my favorite Rhodes sound of all time.

Sidroe


BTW, the Rhodes with the vibrato turned on really nails that Max Middleton Rhodes on Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow album. That is one of my favorite Rhodes sound of all time.

ABSOLUTELY agree with you on that Rhodes sound.  And thanks for reminding me I wanted to put together a couple of covers of Beck tunes. :)


Bob Bone

Despite the awesomeness and scope of Kontakt, I still find myself craving something into which I can quickly drag and auto keymap audio clips. Something like the free version of Structure which comes with Pro Tools. That thing is awesome for beat chopping. You just take your drum loop, chop it into eight pieces, drag them into Structure, and it automatically maps them to consecutive notes on the keyboard. I haven't found anything comparable in a free VST version, although to be fair I haven't really looked hard.