Orange Tree Stratosphere update has arrived

Evolution Stratosphere
FREE Kontakt Player Update
Dear Dana,

The long-awaited Kontakt Player edition of Evolution Stratosphere is available now!

As a big THANK YOU for your patience, we've added this new edition (as well as the necessary serial number) to your account entirely free of charge!

Instead of covering the cost to license the Kontakt Player with an upgrade fee, as we did when releasing the Player editions of Evolution Strawberry and Steel Strings, we decided to provide this upgrade entirely free--both in appreciation of your support and also as a holiday gift.

Here's what's new in the Kontakt Player edition:
NKS-Ready. Integrates with Komplete Kontrol hardware such as the S-Series keyboards and Maschine.
Snapshot presets. The library now uses Kontakt 5's snapshot preset feature, which provides a more a robust preset management solution than the old built-in one. We also added a bunch of new factory presets while we were at it.
Tuning tweaks. We did another pass of tune tuning on the samples.
Latest Evolution engine. With this new edition, you also get all the improvements of the latest Evolution engine: new reverb pedals, improved round-robin cycling for better multi-tracking, as well as a few minor bug fixes.
Because the library has been encoded for the Kontakt Player, you'll need to re-download the new engine files as well as the samples. If you wish to be able to access both libraries concurrently, simply install this new version in a separate folder.

www.orangetreesamples.com

Installed and authorised. I don't know if anyone else is seeing this but there is one minor issue with some presets in the Komplete Kontrol preset menu that do not appear in the snapshot menu. These have "missing" samples. They are not missing as such because they are found when Kontakt is pointed at the Stratosphere folders. I have created a support ticket.
 
I am not going to resave the NKI at this stage because the issues probably relates to the Komplet Kontrol presets.

I'm updated.

And it's NKS compatible.

noynekker
The significance of NKS ?

Native Kontrol Standard (NKS) is Native Instruments’ extended plug-in format for all virtual instrument developers. NKS allows for intuitive and seamless interaction between plug-in instruments and KOMPLETE KONTROL and MASCHINE hardware – definitive integration designed by developers themselves. It integrates them into the Kontrol Keyboard control/lightguide system...
 
Numerous software industry leaders are now actively updating their existing products to be fully NKS-ready. The list is growing constantly as more partners join the KOMPLETE KONTROL system. The future of integration is here!

Confirmed partners using NKS technology:

• Lounge Lizard EP-4
• String Studio VS-2
• Strum GS-2

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Glyn BarnesI don't know if anyone else is seeing this but there is one minor issue with some presets in the Komplete Kontrol preset menu that do not appear in the snapshot menu. These have "missing" samples. They are not missing as such because they are found when Kontakt is pointed at the Stratosphere folders. I have created a support ticket.

I've already followed up with Glyn via email, but in case anybody else is wondering, this issue with the snapshot presets has been fixed. This only applied to the included demo song snapshots (in the "Demo Songs" folder), and not the main factory snapshot presets.
 
If you already have the full version of Kontakt and having it included in the libraries tab isn't a big deal to you, there's still value in downloading the update:
 
- Kontakt 5's new snapshot preset management is much more powerful than the built-in presets Evolution Stratosphere had before. When you save a user preset now, it will show up on the snapshot menu, displaying the name of the preset and everything, which was a deficiency with the built-in system. We also made a bunch more factory presets.
 
- You not only get the latest version of the Evolution guitar engine (small bux fixes, more reverb pedals, new "random" articulation condition, ability to remap the manual string selection keys, improved round-robin cycling), but the library can now keep up to date with new versions of the Evolution engine that are released for the rest of the Evolution guitar libraries. We have a long list of improvements to implement. :)