Orange Tree Evolution Modern Nylon coming Tuesday

Kalle Rantaaho
I hope it works in Kontakt 4.

gregjazz
And by the way, man you guys are fast! Every time I come here to post an announcement, the word's already out! :)

bitflipper
It sounds absolutely wonderful, and of course there's the excellent array of articulations we've come to expect from OTS guitars. This is gonna be a winner, I'm sure.
 
Now, this is likely a minority opinion, but I for one am a little disappointed that Greg's drunk the NI Kool-Aid and gone the licensed-library route. I completely understand the motivation (copy protection), but I'm already frustrated by having had to re-purchase Kontakt 5 times so far and resent giving NI any more money than I have to.
 
BTW, Kalle, for a K4-compatible nylon guitar I'd suggest Ilya Efimov's excellent offering (99 EUR). I suspect it may be lacking one or two of OTS' features, but it sounds great.
 

gregjazz

Glyn Barnes

Kalle Rantaaho
I hope it works in Kontakt 4.

 
And by the way, man you guys are fast! Every time I come here to post an announcement, the word's already out! :)

bitflipperQuestion for you: almost nobody offers both player-compatible and full-Kontakt versions at a lower price. Why is that? Assuming your NDA permits an answer, does NI penalize or prohibit you from doing that?

gregjazz

Vastman
My biggest desire is to have user presets come up in the list as I've labeled them...and, more importantly, in the GUI where the kew switching is labeled... currently it just says: "user preset".  If you have several of your own presets assigned, they all just say, "user preset".  I have talked to greg about this and he says this ability does not exist yet and he agrees...and hopes this ability will be added in the next iteration of Kontakt.

With the previous iteration of the Evolution engine, we used Kontakt's NKA files store all the preset data--these are just basic arrays stored in text format. Kontakt can import and export these data files, which is what allowed us to have the external preset file feature. However, Kontakt's scripting doesn't return the name of the NKA file loaded, which is why the library would only say "External Preset" if you loaded one.
 
Native Instruments then added the snapshot feature to Kontakt 5, which is designed specifically to address the issue of providing factory presets within a single instrument patch as well as being able to have custom preset files as well. The nice part about these snapshot files is that you can even load them directly and Kontakt will automatically load the library they belong to. Your user presets also show up right next to the factory snapshots, which is very convenient--they're all accessible from a dropdown menu rather than opening a file loading window each time. Finally, if you own a Komplete Kontrol keyboard or Maschine, you can browse through the presets using the buttons on the hardware directly.
 
Evolution Modern Nylon, Strawberry, and Steel Strings all use snapshots now, so the issue of not seeing your user preset name has been solved in those libraries. We'll be releasing updates for Evolution Banshee and Evolution Stratosphere to bring this functionality to those libraries as well.

Vastman
Actually, Greg... I was referring to the "strum" presets... They do not come up labeled as I've saved them... unless I'm doing something totally wrong...If I make 3 new nylon presets (as there is no custom "gregg nylon" presets... they all come up "User Preset" and it becomes a guessing game...which is which...in strums 1-6
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Naturally, I hope I'm doing something wrong but when I save a strum and load it the gui still says "user preset" in the strum box for whichever of the 1 thru 6 slots I assigned it to...