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Original Message 1/22 13-Sep-02 @ 08:23 AM - NI Kontakt thoughts please....

Stvy

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Hi,

anyone running kontakt tell me how many virtual outputs you can have?

also hows the cpu usage compared to say the exs24?

cheers
stvy

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Message 2/22 13-Sep-02 @ 08:59 AM - RE: NI Kontakt thoughts please....

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Just took delivery of one.. gonna take a look this weekend.. granular timestretching hmmmm.. :-)

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Message 3/22 13-Sep-02 @ 10:33 AM - RE: NI Kontakt thoughts please....

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it's pretty light, although I haven't compare it to EXS24... Kontakt loads as a default shell into which you put sampler objects... so you load a soundset and that loads into the rack as one section which is the section which holds the actual samples & key-mappings etc, then if you want to, you can add a filter section & fx sections etc... if you dont need them don't load them (I haven't yet)... so without any processing all it's doing is playing back ram loaded samples which is a simple task and not very cpu intensive.

It sounds good anyways... it comes with a very good selection of samples, my only criticism would be that it doesnt come with any strings... you get guitars (steel 6/12 string & classical), real acoustic bass, a good selection of drums & percussion and 'The best of synth' providing a selection of pads, leads and other synth sounds & fx... a good selection for doing contemporary production work basicaly... Like i said, all I need is some good string discs and also some selection of middle-eastern instrument sounds i'm sorted.... it's a good package all in all.

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Message 4/22 13-Sep-02 @ 02:09 PM - RE: NI Kontakt thoughts please....

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Kontakt is pretty damned good. It's better than EXS24 in most areas except pure simplicity and the conversion of entire Akai CDs in one go. Other than that it is way better.

It's damned easy to use and has filters and modulation options that you'd only find on the most expensive h/w units if at all.

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Message 5/22 13-Sep-02 @ 08:42 PM - RE: NI Kontakt thoughts please....

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I dont like kontakt. I think it's really clumsy which the exs is not. In terms of quickly getting to all your sounds and quickly putting together basic patches the exs doesn't have much competition. In terms of specs, kontakt pretty much kills everything else. The filter bank on the exs isn't even in the same league as kontakt's and neither is anyone else's. As far as CPU usage goes for raw voices they seem pretty close with maybe a slight edge going to the exs.

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Message 6/22 13-Sep-02 @ 10:35 PM - RE: NI Kontakt thoughts please....

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DUNNO.. I sold my E6400 ultra in favor of Kontakt

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Message 7/22 14-Sep-02 @ 03:40 AM - RE: NI Kontakt thoughts please....

Stvy

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Hi,

Thanks people.

Looks like I'm going to go with the crossgrade deal for exs24 owners. 40% off can't really go wrong...

Bit of a shame theirs no strings...I don't really want any samples of NI synths really.

What are the drum kits like that come with it... Having said that only 3 months till I can afford a machindrum.. then I'll have to sample the shit out of that into Kontakt.. Hmm looks like I'll have everything I need to safely say I'll never finish anything again!

Cheers

Stvy

Oh by the way how many mulitouts can you get?

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Message 8/22 14-Sep-02 @ 05:17 PM - RE: NI Kontakt thoughts please....

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16 as far as I know if the host supports it although I did here somewhere of a bug in one sequencer meaning the outs dont show - or was that battery?... i think bedwyr was saying something about it in another thread.

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Message 9/22 15-Sep-02 @ 02:55 AM - RE: NI Kontakt thoughts please....

Stvy

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Hi,

Is 16 the limit on mulitouts? I was hoping for 32 or so, I want to build a kit for percussion and I don't really want all the different types coming through the same outs. Seems a shame as I'll have to have several instances open. bit of a waiste of cpu.

Cheers

Stvy

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Message 10/22 15-Sep-02 @ 04:24 AM - RE: NI Kontakt thoughts please....

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you can DL the manual from the NI site and get a definitive answer there!

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