The samples were compressed to have a total size of under 200MB.
This piano instrument mainly concentrates on the lower range, with sustains and staccatos, which make it perfect for dramatic passages or experimental productions.Īmore Grand Piano is a sampled Yamaha grand piano “close-miked in stereo”. Jerry’s Pianos released by Cinesamples is a sample library for Kontakt featuring a dual Steinway Grand Pianos setup which was recorded at the Sony Scoring Stage in Culver City, California.
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Latest versions for K5 are 5.8.1 and for K6 6.5.2.38 Best Free Kontakt Libraries – Table of Contents: You can check this by clicking on KONTAKT logo in top left. If it's an indie library, you open it by directly opening a particular NKI file (either through Files browser, or by drag&dropping it from Explorer/Finder) - however you can add those to the Database, or to the Quick Load.Īnd of course, always verify you're on latest version of Kontakt. In case of Player libraries, once they're installed they're directly in the Libraries tab. I want to help here but what you're saying there is not adding up. Please break it down in detailed steps one by one (one row per step, rather than a run-on sentence, please), what are you doing there? Are you talking about Kontakt Player encoded libraries, or non-encoded ("indie") 3rd party libraries? Which specific libraries? Why would you need to move a library somewhere AFTER you have installed it where you wanted it to be? Makes no sense. I still don't understand what exactly you mean. Thanks for clarifying though seems like a pretty minor imposition on the developer's end so I'm surprised it's not common practice. However, as mentioned, this is not a widely adopted practice among Kontakt library developers.Yup, realized after I posted that I was confusing libraries with database. However, as mentioned, this is not a widely adopted practice among Kontakt library developers. Once this is done, the library can then also be added to the database in the same manner as above on user side, after rescanning that library will be browsable and filterable with tags in the database. However, if a library developer wants to support Kontakt's database, first his library needs to be manually added to the database (Options > Database > Add), then after rescanning, NKIs are available in the Database, and there's an Edit button in bottom left, where metadata needs to be added. Those cannot be added to the Libraries tab (which is by design), but can be loaded either through Kontakt's Files browser, or can be added to Quick Load, or the Database. Libraries tab is only reserved for Kontakt Player encoded libraries - and yes, there are great many 3rd party libraries that are also encoded for the Player, but there are also great many that aren't. That quote is talking about the Libraries tab, not the Database tab. I think NI has done great job so far, but I wish NI will do something wonderful about sample database standardization like Yamaha, Roland developed and promoted MIDI and GM format. Kontakt is a dominant platform of the sample libraries today, and NI is the one who can standardize the sample library database format. What do you guys think about it? Are you guys happy with current interface?Īlso it's really disappointing that Database does not really support third party libraries. Many users are using Kontakt as a romper, and it should support something like a click loading option (replacing an instrument with a click). I also wonder why we still have to drag and drop instruments.
NI has not really tried to improve it for 20 years even the actual usage of Kontakt has shifted from "sampler" to "playback platform of sample library".Įven a person who helped its development does not use Kontakt's own library management window, and he loads instruments directly from OSX Finder, and I do this too. Kontakt is a de facto standard of playback sampler today, but I think its instrument management window is almost useless.