SONAR Samplers

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Which (if any) of these formats are supported by any SONAR SAMPLER?

NNXT

EXS24

HALion 3

Kontakt (full)

MachFive  
Thanks.

Cake's own format is .SFZ which is pretty popular. Kontakt 3-5 read sfz format samples pretty well. Don't know about any of the others. I don't believe any Cake synths/samplers can read any of the native formats of the samplers you list.

You could buy a translator like this one http://chickensys.com/pro...sw_name=Translator+Pro
They also make a less expensive version http://chickensys.com/pro...lator+Special+Editions if you only want to create sfz files.

But remember, if you are translating samples from, say, Kontakt or Mach 5 you may loose features that depend on scripting or the samplers internal effects. Kontakt instruments are very often much more than a bunch of wav files with some mapping.

est route is to cough up the dough for full Kontakt. It will play libraries in several formats, plus you can have a blast making your own. 

Absolutely...
Kontakt (for better or worse) has no real peer 
Mach-5 v3 is closest... but it's still lagging in major areas like disk-streaming efficiency.

So do I buy Kontakt or Komplete??

 
At current cost, it makes sense to buy Komplete 8.

Bit -
 
You make good points but...I already own Ivory II, Superior Drummer/EZ with about 14 kits, 3 Scarbee basses, Vintage Organs etc.  So I'm in good shape for my particular needs in that regard.

Having said that, I typically record mostly audio with samples being used when a client is on a budget. I can provide drums, bass etc. and bill the client a little less than they would pay a player. And especially in the case of drums/bass, I usually can build more interesting/appropriate tracks than a mid-priced player would produce. However, if live drums are called for I will certainly beef up a typically bad sounding kit with samples.
 
So, the particular samples I was wanting to  purchase is Celtic Instruments from Big Fish Audio. I bought these samples about 7-8 years ago when I had an early version of Gigastudio. And they sound great. However, I've since lost the disk, there's no record of my purchase (yes I bought them) with Big Fish. And they weren't really very customer friendly when I contacted them about this.
 
A current client is doing some stuff that some of these instruments would fit in really nicely. Celtic was on sale this weekend and although I vowed to never buy it again, at the sale price I decided I had made Big Fish suffer long enough. :)

I don't record myself although I've been playing for about 47 years. I just don't find any "fun" in that anymore. So, while I like to play around with electronic sounds, the synths included with SONAR do more than I need.
 
Whatever I purchase a specialty product, I try to build that purchase into billing. Buying Kontact just for Celtic would be a bit much in this case. Make sense?
 
Sorry for the long response.
 
Earl 

Thanks for the reminder! I couldn't remember which sampler that was. It's not currently installed but I wonder if it would operate okay all right in a 64 bit environment? I still have all my disks back to Pro Audio 8 so I can locate it.

Thanks!

There is only one Sampler on the market! Kontakt!
http://www.native-instruments.com/#/en/products/producer/kontakt-5/

Buy it!

Learn it!

Forget anything else!