how is K2 library!?!

hi!
how are the sounds and the new programming of K2 library?
any comments?

 

Awesome! especially the 'real' and electric pianos...

 

agreed , the steinway D is one of the most expressive pianos I have heard. Very Nice.
The whole library is just so much better than the K1 library, it is kind of amusing. some of the stuff they did with the script processor, just makes you shake your head.

Akkord guitar is the first acoustic chord samples I like so much I used then instead of actual guitar on a few pieces for clients. The library alone is worth the price of admission.

 

In fact, content of the library was one of my two motivations in switching to Kontakt. I did not check everything in the lib, but what I checked is really valuable, and demonstrates a careful work of the programmers. I agree about the subtle quality of the pianos. I am working on some scripts using the VSL wind instrument. English horn is one of the best I have heard, very inspiring.

Another point: I am an extensive wind controller user (Yam WX7). The very old DX7/TX7 is the only synthesizer I have used with a perfectly transparent interpolation of the CC breath data. I never found such good implementation (neither on Akai samplers nor on Halion for example: you hear the cc discrete values changing) of the interpolation until Kontakt. More, you can chain very easily identical modulations, getting even more expressive control. Considering the quality of samples, this opens new expressive horizons.

Thanks to NI for that feature I have been expecting for a long time.

 

One of the most interesting compolation of Libs. to come with a soft sampler so far. The Scripting Inst. are worth the price of admission alone..Rich

 

Yes, awesome is the word - orders of magnitude better than the previous library - well documented as well.

The script library is also a great new addition.

Chris

 

Any comments on the basses? I'm interested in both double and fingered electric. The original fingered electric wasn't up to much on K1.

thanks



Matthew

 

Actually, when I read the specs of k2 and of the library back in february I guess it was, I decided to buy k1.5 in order to use the grace period update. this way I had the advantage of saving a few bucks on k2, plus I had a chance to get the k1.5 library "at no cost", as well as the copy of k.15, which i must say I'm not needing anymore.

So, when I got my k1.5 back in feb, I just fell in love with the basses, specially the way different samples were mapped across the velocity spectrum. same goes for the guitars, I like those slides on a hard key hit, nice idea.

Back then I looked around for orchestra libraries, and i stumbled across vsl. Seeing that the k2 lib was going to have some samples from the vsl really hooked me up, and when I got my k2 update and played some keys, my first thought was that the library alone was worth the upgrade.

Certainly some of the samples of the entire library are not even worth to get mentioned, but there are many highlights and theese really shine. Sadly most of them seem "crippled" in that they have'nt got a full keyrange, some seem to span only two octaves, but the sound of those is simply amazing, well actually it's more than two octaves, sometimes the notes don't go as low as I wish, it appears a much to small range.

As for the piano, it sure sounds real, but I'm still missing a piano sound like the grand piano that came with the Yamaha A3k sampler, which is no longer beeing used. The Steinway sounds like passed through a lpf somehow.

I like the sound of the k1.5 library basses a bit more, they sound a bit more human, so I'm glad that I have the 1.5, but anyway, the 2.0 library is so loaded with awesome sounds that it's really an superb addon to the 1.5 library. It's super!!!

 

Haven't heard it myself, but I noticed there is an update for the piano here which mentions the removal of a filter amongst other things.

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