I'm gonna buy a sampler, and can't decide if buying Kontakt would be that much better than buying Kompakt. I can get Kontakt for $225 and Kompakt for $115 (educational discounts)

Any thouhts?

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I'm gonna buy a sampler, and can't decide if buying Kontakt would be that much better than buying Kompakt. I can get Kontakt for $225 and Kompakt for $115 (educational discounts)

Any thouhts?

I have both, I use kompakt for the most part, it is great for basic tweaking of sounds and comes with a substantial library of very useable sounds, kontakt is a lot more advanced in it's editing ability (changing samples, keygoups, stretching time to name just a few) although the library is more specific (less variety, better quality).

Hope this helps

Dave Ross
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I use Kompakt most but mainly because it is my solution for software drums. All the samples are high quality and fit well into my recordings but mainly I like the acoustic drum kit over any of the others I've heard and used.

The drumkits are mapped out and velocity layered for real-time effect and I can create 8 different channels for each drum part all in one instrument with 8 stereo outputs. This makes creating and editing drums allot easier! Kompakt does allow you to change filters, envelopes, add built-in efxs, and eq so its great in my opinion.
You can read a post including pics of how I use Kompakt in S4 here

People say the down side to Kompakt over Kontakt is it takes longer to map out samples. So if you have allot wav or aiff files you want to map out then maybe Kontakt is your better choice.

-John

Thanks guys. It looks like I will probably go with Kontakt.

I have both, but I got the Kompakt for Kontakt users deal from NI just for the Kompakt library. I keep Kompakt up to date but never use it. And just to make it all a complete waste I got Komplete 2 later.

Ben N. Moore