Glyn Barnes

abacab

Glyn Barnes
I wonder if you can drag a clip from Sonar's track view into Kontakt's sample map? I will try this later.

I would imagine so.  But I don't have the full Kontakt sampler, so I tried it with the TX16Wx sampler. Also checked it with the Structure sampler.  That works as well.

I just tried this. Its very simple to drag an audio clip from Sonar directly into Kontakt's sample mapping. This provides a very easy workflow for basic tasks.

So in this context, Kontakt can be a "real" sampler, right? 
 
It's just a matter of workflow and signal path.  You can bring a raw sound waveform into Kontakt, via the host, and then manipulate it as you wish.
 
Sonar just provides the input/output architecture at this point.

Jeff Evans
Hey rsinger is there any way I could get a copy of your S550 samples converted to Akai format.  Be happy to pay you too.  Are they in Akai CD ROM format?  I only say this because both my Kurzweil and EMU hardware samplers are actually very clever enough to be able to read both Roland and Akai libraries without a hitch.  Pretty cool feature really.  I have extended my EMU library because of this to now include pretty extensive Akai and Roland libraries as well.  Of course the same sounds in the EMU actually sound nicer to me!

The Z series uses the S5000 / S6000 AKP format so that's what they're in. I only converted a handful - I liked the bottle on the S550 and there are a couple basses, some percussion and voices/vox/choir. If you want them me know.

abacab
So in this context, Kontakt can be a "real" sampler, right? 
 
It's just a matter of workflow and signal path.  You can bring a raw sound waveform into Kontakt, via the host, and then manipulate it as you wish.
 
Sonar just provides the input/output architecture at this point.

Well the combination of Sonar and Kontakt if you want to split hairs, but its not too difficult to record a clip and map it in Kontakt.
 
If you want to map existing samples you can also drag and drop from Sonars browser. Quite handy as you can audition the sound and then drag it in.
 

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bitflipper
One person (reasonably) asks if Kontakt can sample, others say SONAR needs a sampler. Anybody else see the irony there?
 

I won't make it too easy but Craig Anderton has some pretty nifty tutorials on how to record samples, plot them up and create loops etc all in one program we all have access to. Would that be a sampler?