I just downloaded the bolder sound music maker V4 -dulcimer 
  samples for free,which sound imo very nice. 

http://www.boldersounds.net/music-maker-v2-p-105.html?zenid=vfnd3ghc59od0545dgg981pk03


The requirements are the following:

Full version of Kontakt SAMPLER 4+ required. Will only run on the Kontakt PLAYER for 30 minutes in demo mode.*




Is there a tool in Sonar X1 or X2 that can handle this samples or has any one any idea to workaround ?

Thanks in advance, 
Pragi! 

AFAIK/ I guess there is no workaround, unless there's a software that can cut those nki-files to plain wav's or other format supported by samplers. Then you should place those in a sampler note by note ( losing the user interface and all included articulation modes etc.).

But as mentioned, I'm only guessing.

I used one from Chicken Systems a long time ago.  Here is the link to their downloads page - this is for a free converter.  There is also one for one called Extreme Sample Converter, but that one is not free, and there are posts out there complaining about no response from the developer for the past 14 months.

So here is the link to the free one:

http://www.chickensys.com/downloads/translator.php

Bob Bone

Nothing in SONAR will work. Not sure about the converter that Bob mentioned. May be worth a try.

Scott

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Thanks to all for responses.
Bob, I ´m not  a routinier in working with samples,
so muchas gracias, hope that such a sample noob like me
can get it to work/translate.

Pragi

Full version of Kontakt SAMPLER 4+ required. Will only run on the Kontakt PLAYER for 30 minutes in demo mode.*

FYI, NI limits the "demo mode" for 3rd party samples in their current free "Kontakt 5 Player" version to 15 minutes (not 30).


Work fast! 

I understand that you probably don't want to buy the full Kontakt sampler right now, but I recently bit the bullet and it opened up a world of free and low-cost samples.

I was less impressed with the content that came with Kontakt than I thought I would be, but that was mainly because I had already invested in a several other sample libraries.  The Kontakt content is good.  (There are two Kontakt libraries.  One is free with the free player and the other is free with the full player.) 

To my original point, however, the big thing with Kontakt is all the other stuff out there that won't work with the free player (WaveLore, Bolder, Noise Firm, and 100s of others).
 

I honestly don't understand why they won't sell just the sampler. 

There's a market for it. A lot of people would buy Kontakt if they didn't have to buy the whole library as well. They should sell just the player & the libraries individually. 

Of course, they can still offer the Elements package, the full Kontakt package, & the Ultimate package. 

konradh

I was less impressed with the content that came with Kontakt than I thought I would be, but that was mainly because I had already invested in a several other sample libraries. 
 

Still, Kontakt is topnotch for a all-in-one rompler, 

thunderkyss


I honestly don't understand why they won't sell just the sampler.  
 

Because they want to make more money. What they did to all of their libraries sold at that time when they released K5 was awful. They made the libraries incompatible with K1-K4.

thunderkyss


I honestly don't understand why they won't sell just the sampler. 

There's a market for it. A lot of people would buy Kontakt if they didn't have to buy the whole library as well. They should sell just the player & the libraries individually. 

Of course, they can still offer the Elements package, the full Kontakt package, & the Ultimate package. 

they do sell kontakt separately for $399.  you're thinking the komplete packages, which add more libraries and synths.  they are a great bargain.  kontakt standalone only comes with the factory library that's been around for years and years.  kinda like selling dimension or session drummer without patches and kits.