What of Discovery North India?

With the release of the new West Africa Kontakt instrument I have hope...will the Kore North India instrument be ported to Kontakt Player or something along those lines? Is this a possibility? I rely on the tabla sequencing functions rather heavily, and it kills me to think that it's no longer going to be supported...

 

I'm quite confident the port to kontakt will happen.

 

If it gets ported to Kontakt I would like it to also be offered to its Kore version owners for free.

 

This.

Heck, make it free for kore pack owners for ALL kore packs that eventually get ported over to Kontakt. It's the least NI can do.

 

Agree

 

I'd be very surprised if this happened, considering the way the discontinuation has been handled.

Remember that Akoustik Piano users never got the updated NKIs when the pianos went on sale separately.

 

However, Reaktor versions of Spark and The Finger were offered as free updates to the Kore owners.

No sample content in those, though, so perhaps NI considers this feasible only for the tiny packages, which wouldn't include North India.

 

But those versions were intended to promote the then-new Reaktor Player, no?

In the case of Spark, the Reaktor Player version has less performance functionality than the Kore version, as it's missing some interesting arpeggiated patterns. Fortunately both installations can coexist.

 

Well, I'm still concerned that the file size issue will trump any others in their decision, considering they even do decide to Kontakt-ify North India.

 

I think all the North India samples are in the full version of Kontakt 4, the same for Brass and Vintage instruments. The nki's are different though. Just extract the nki's from the ksds if you have the full version of Kore.

 

I'm sure the North India samples aren't in the Kontakt 4 Library.

 

From the Kontakt 4 Library Documentation:

"1.1.7 World
The World Collection contains instruments from a variety of different musical cultures - useful for adding an exotic edge to your tracks.

New in KONTAKT 4:
Sample content from the North India Kore instrument, including a sitar, harmonium and tabla."

Hmmmm, lemme check - tanpura; most of them, tabla; even more, sitars; some of them, bansuri; even more, the harmonium, lots of them, shehnai, lots of them.

Far less nki's and options though

 

I'm pretty sure that there's no overlapping of the actual samples. Verrrrry little, if at all.
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As far as I know, the Komplete 7 KSD installer adds these sounds back to Kore (using Spark R2, the Reaktor Player version).

I can't be sure as I don't have the old one currently installed, but there are 30-something patches that make use of the arpeggiator.

 

Sorry - I missed that. I expect that like the "Pop Drums" content, these instruments have less samples (round robins, velocity layers, etc) than the Kore versions.