Kore Player free at NI website

I'm glad you like it =)
A minor correction; the sample content's 300 MB, and not 150 MB.

And, yeah- the '57 Drawbar's tweakable. There's enough extra stuff in B4 (dual manual settings, cabinet choices, etc.) so B4's still worth the extra cash if you want the definitive software organ, though.

Your Kore player forum moderator,
ew

If you run it from inside Chainer, you can save the state of the plugin as a Chainer preset.

Of course you can save the state within a Sonar project too, but that's not portable--the Chainer preset is.

Regards, lightninrick

ORIGINAL: HumbleNoise

I downloaded Kore 2 and I can't get it to do ANYTHING. RTM and it shows how to choose a sound but when I choose a piano, guitar whatever NOTHING shows in the browser window and absolutely nothing happens. Checked and double checked audio and MIDI stteing re-loaded the program twice, activated the software. and NOTHING. It's like it can't find the library but I used the default settings an can find the library samples so I'm stumped.

Is there a special trick to get it to make sounds?

Kore2? Well, it's a collection of the NI players (Absynth, Massive, etc.), and a sample library with hundreds of instruments.

But, there's 5Gb of samples that have to be installed before it will play. Did you load the second disk?

Larry,

Don't know a thing about the Kore player. If it is like the real app, then it should have a Menu somewhere on top, and in that menu, an Options choice.

In Kore 2, you set the locations of the libraries in this Options dialog. I use the "Find Manually" as it takes so damn long to search 500Gb drives! I point to the folder, and click OK -- Kore asks if it should add to the database -- voila!

Hope it works for you.

Kore 2 Komplete is only a grand ($1000) -- why not pick one up on your way in to work tomorrow at the 7-11?

ORIGINAL: HumbleNoise

Thanks kwgm but no such options with the free player. Nothing else to try that I can think of. Maybe tomorrow.

How do you like Kore 2. Looks really nice with a LOT of great sounds.

Yes, I do. I like all of the NI synths -- they add a new dimension to my music synthesis.

They're not bread and butter voices, of course. If you want realistic pianos and guitars, brassy horns, groovin Hammonds, rounded woodwinds, dynamic Wurlies, and the like, you're better off buying hardware (Kurz or Yammy), or something like Kompakt or Gigasampler with a few large, expensive sample packages like EastWest, Miroslav, Scarbee to taste. But, if you share my affection for those sounds which have been labeled anything from "ambient" to "spacey", then the NI soundset will add a large section to your sound palette. I still get goosebumps when I hear a good Wavestation or DX7 Pad. The Kore 2 set is rooted in those synths, as are the full versions of Absynth, FM8, Massive. and Pro53. If you have the excess cash to spend, and like to design sounds, you'll want the Komplete package, but Kore 2 provides the basics of all those synths, without all the programmability and complexity.

I had problems getting sounds to load as well.

until I Read the Manual!!!

use the windows in the bottom left for search. clicking on each one will tell you if it's available or not. a checkmark will show up beside the ones available.
after you get an output in the right window, that means you have sucessfully found that sound. double click on it and it will load that sound into the engine.

sure, Larry, I'll show you what I found.

what I've done here is click on the PIANO/KEYS on the left - it gets highlighted in yellow. on the right, all of the piano/keys available show up on the outputs. if I click on one of the outputs (which I have) it will highlight it in yellow and will show you all of the OTHER search patterns which would have lead to this particular output by putting a checkmark beside it. to load that sound, just double click on the output line that's highlighted.



you can also show EVERYTHING you have available by pressing the little icon just above the left window that looks like a minature keyboard, just to the left of the icon that has "FX" on it. that will clear all search parameters and show global outputs.

HTH.

sorry to hear that. I did put the samples in a different location from default. in fact, I keep all my samples on a separate drive, so that shouldn't be the problem.

not sure what it could be, tho.

Tried one last time and installed into a diferent directory thinking it might find the samples but the same thing happened. So I'm done and I'm sure everyone's had a simlar experience with certain software but my experiences with NI are always very similar. Pain. Kontact. Pain. Those stupid little fonts. Pain. Kore. Pain. I know there's some great sounds to be had but I'll probably never consider an NI product for purchase - had to use Kontact with GPO. Oh well, on to bigger and better things.

ORIGINAL: HumbleNoise
It really is behaving like it can't find the sample files but I can only install where they suggest (3 installs at least) as a default and can't point to any other location.

That definitely shouldn't be the case- it should ask you the location where you want the samples. I'm thinking a registry key got left behind.

If you're comfortable with using a registry editor, fire up your registry editor of choice.

Warning! Always create a system restore point and/or backup your registry before using a registry editor!

The key on my machine is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments\Kore2

There's a content dir subkey there. However, since you only have the player, it's probably a subkey of

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments\Kore Player

Change the path and reboot. Done.

Or (and this is probably the safest thing), delete the whole Kore player key. While you're at it, turn on "show hidden files and folders" in Windows' view menu and go to (on XP):

Documents and Settings/*your user account*/Local Settings/Application Data/Native Instruments and delete the Kore player subfolder there. Now reinstall- you should be asked for a sample path.

ew

ORIGINAL: ew

ORIGINAL: HumbleNoise
It really is behaving like it can't find the sample files but I can only install where they suggest (3 installs at least) as a default and can't point to any other location.

That definitely shouldn't be the case- it should ask you the location where you want the samples. I'm thinking a registry key got left behind.

If you're comfortable with using a registry editor, fire up your registry editor of choice.

Warning! Always create a system restore point and/or backup your registry before using a registry editor!

The key on my machine is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments\Kore2

There's a content dir subkey there. However, since you only have the player, it's probably a subkey of

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Native Instruments\Kore Player

Change the path and reboot. Done.

Or (and this is probably the safest thing), delete the whole Kore player key. While you're at it, turn on "show hidden files and folders" in Windows' view menu and go to (on XP):

Documents and Settings/*your user account*/Local Settings/Application Data/Native Instruments and delete the Kore player subfolder there. Now reinstall- you should be asked for a sample path.

ew

ew, Thanks for the post but I re-nstalled 4 or 5 times into different directories after the default location failed 2 or 3 times, don't really want to mess with the registry and I'm done with Kore and done with NI.

Wasted far too much time on what should have been a painless test of a company's software. If I have to do more than simply install into suggested directories, or even new directories to get the software working then I'd rather spend my time with other projects. It seems everyone has a bad experieince with at least one software vendor and for me it's NI. Just DO NOT like their stuff.

But again, a sincere thanks for trying to help.