what's gonna blow my mind in Kontakt?

Hi,

I'm new to Kontakt, recently purchased it as part of Komplete and am currently overwhelmed with the number of lovely sounds I've got with this gargantuan purchase .

I'm generally an ableton live user and wondering what the most impressive features are from that perspective. i.e. what does it allow me to do easily that ableton's simpler/sampler (or indeed clip view) does not?

please fill me in.

apologies for starting such a vague topic.

cheers,
tris

 

It is kind of vague, unfortunately. I've found that every user finds different aspects of a library useful, depending on their level of expertise, the type of music they work on, and their own personal taste. I've seen users argue violently on one particular instrument being totally realistic vs. totally unrealistic. It really totally comes down to personal points of view.

The central crux of your question comparing it to Ableton's sampler is that Ableton's sampler is a much simpler sampler, and Kontakt is capable of 100x more complexity, realism, behaviors, etc. so in theory you can achieve much more realistic results with Kontakt, however, that's entirely up to the skill of the people who created the samples, and the skill of the people using the samples.

 

to me the main thing is that kontakt allows different playback modes, time and tone machines etc so that a sample can be timestretched, its funny the ableton sampler cant do this.

also kontakt can now edit a smaple and save a copy. in ableton, there is always a safety extra at start and stop of the sample, so you never get the cut you really want.

also in kontakt there is a convolution processor that allows you to use impulse responses of your own files

then the ableton sampler cant save a patch including its samples (monolith) this can only be done by saving samples into the library or by saving the whole song as a monolith, which makes it hard to build up a library

in ableton though the way you can build presets of for example drumsets with drumracks using individual effects on sounds allows more freedom and modular experiments while being easy to use (exchanging samples is much easier).

 

Hi... I'm so new here... I've just got my Garritan Personal Orchestra... how do i use it with my Sibelius 6? i'm dying to hear Garritan Sound library on my works... thanks a lot!