Kontakt - Networked drives - DFD

Hello everyone,

This is my first post - second attempt!!!

I am Head of Music at a UK secondary school/college offering the Edexcel AS and A2 courses. To support our A2 students we have deployed 3 Kontakt 1.5 licences on networked PCs. I had planned to install the sample/instrument libraries on only one pc and access it from the other via networked drives. However the Kontakt browser has proved incapable of looking at networked drives (NI support confirmed the issue).

Does this change with V2? The prospect of installing 15 gig on each PC seems so unnessary even in these days of cheap storage.

Does the DFD option have to installed seperately or is it part of 1.5? Presently Kontakt reports 'low memory' with a grand piano instrument and one other loaded. Pcs - 512 and 768 meg.

Does anyone have any idea of the educational upgrade prices in the UK?

Many thanks for your help - in antcipation!

Penny Jaeger

 

Hi Penny,

I surprised by this. I thought there was an option in 1.5.3 whch allowed the browser to view network drives? I haven't tried it myself but I'm sure people on this board have made use of this functionality.

cheers
Michael

 

I dont think there is any need for networked drives in a sampler, as I'm pretty sure that its pointless. The bandwidth on over even an empty network, let alone an educational network, is going to be pretty bad and your not going to get the data streamed fast enough, escpecially when theres a few people using it! You should just copy them all to the computers...

the one advantage of the networked drives being however that you can copy the samples to a server, and then copy them all to the workstations after, meaning youy dont have to worry about swapping CDs, just set all the machines copying over night and the next day you should be laughing... networked DFD is more likely to make you pull your hair out as everyone complains at the lack of performance.

 

You can get to network drives in K 1.5, but you have to go through the Load button rather than the browser.

I haven't received K2 yet, so can't comment there...