Love'em! Thanks!

great gift indeed!

Thanks for clarification about player limitations and libraries.
Maybe Soniccouture doesn't know that it actually is compatible.

It's tricky to know if you have a full copy of Kontakt installed (as the lads at SC obviously do) because you can't then install the player (rather bizarrely) to check it.

I only know because my other half in the Novachord project used the player to check patches and stuff until such time as he bought the full version.

Cheers,


Steve

haha !


No, we're pretty well clued up on kontakt Player and what it does and doesn't do - and, for the record, it's NOT compatible with Kontakt player, since it only runs in demo mode. Of course people are very welcome to do this, but it's not, strictly speaking, compatible. If you bought one of our paid products and we told you it runs in kontakt player, then you found it timed out after 30 mins with no option to authorise, you might not be best pleased.

Thanks to everyone else for your kind comments, we're glad Rocksichord is going down so well.

semantics, I guess
Usually in sw, incompatibility is an indicator ascribed to something that won't run at all.

Sure, we appreciate the point - we just have to be very careful about the language we use commercially on the website, so to speak.
And the general reigning confusion that surrounds Kontakt and Kontakt player really doesn't help the situation, as has been noted above.

Again, thanks for all your comments!

I like this instrument a lot. Should be worth using in a a retro funk kinda track as a partner to some funky clav from my kurzweil (not that I have such a song in the works, but it's an idea isn't it? )

hollowsun,
have you a link to your RMI Elektrapiano in Akai format ???

I don't have Kontact and don't want to install a NI product.

I am a fan of the old Genesis ans Tony Banks, so I'm curious to hear this sound !

May I ask the reason why you don't want to install an NI product?

Kontakt is currently the s/w sampler and has been since the inclusion of scripting.

Scripting truly revolutionized the creation of real-time playable instrument based on samples.

Of course, the word 'revolutionize' has been used to death in manufacurers' hype everywhere, but without scripting we wouldn't have the amazing instruments we can now enjoy from companies like Samplemodelling, Soniccouture, Bela D, Orangetree and so on and so forth (apologies to developers inadvertently not mentioned - my memory is good, but short).

So, by denying yourself Kontakt, you voluntarily abstain from the cream of the crop of today's best sample based instruments.

I would be curious to know the reason why…

Best,

Joachim

Yes. HERE

It is Akai S5/6000 format however which many/most samplers can't read - they appear to be geared up (still) for the older S1/3k format. Dunno why - the S5/6k format is freely available.

But whatever. My little RMI Electrapiano is not a patch (no pun intended) on SC's 'Rocksichord'. But it IS the essential Tony Banks 'Carpet Crawlers' sound whereas SC's 'Rocksichord offers so much more in all fairness even if it's not that exact RMI (ahem) 'piano' sound.


You are limiting yourself if you are taking this stance on some kind of principle. I am a die-hard hardware preferer but Kontakt is very, very good.


I too am a big early Genesis fan (I saw their 'Foxtrot' tour in 1972!). I think you'll like my modest offering. I hope so anyway.

Cheers,


Steve

Thank you hollowsun for the Akai files. I have converted them to sf2 with Extrem Sample Converter.
They sound great but it's a kind of toy piano, no ?

I have nothing against NI products, and I'm sure they are good, but I have less and less time to make music, so I try to use only free or cheap stuff...

thanx a lot Soniccouture

Ermmmm... yes!

As a lad, I used to think it must be an incredible instrument coz some of the prog greats used them ... Tony Banks, Rick Wakeman, Dave Greenslade and others. You can imagine my disappointment when I eventually got to play one and it went 'plink, plink, plink'.... it's just an electronic piano .... that doesn't sound much like a piano ....

And isn't even velocity sensitive!!

I happened across one several years later and sampled it on my old S3000 but I was only interested in the 'Carpet Crawlers' sound at the time. I wish I'd got more of the other tones. Ah well.

Cheers,


Steve

Well I am a bit annoyed if i can't do full edits of something that was sold to run on Kontakt 4 if I only own 3.5. I just bought Galaxy Vintage D which runs on K4 and I'm using the free player.

If I do an edit and then save it can I play that edited instrument in the future without a time limit (say if I save, then close K4, reopen it, and load the new edited instrument)?