Sample Compression and Library Size of Array Mbira

[soniccouture]

Hi,
we've had a few perturbed enquiries as to why we advertise the Mbira library as 9GB, yet on disc it only appears to be around 4.05 GB.
We're not trying to pull a fast one - the explanation is that Kontakt 4 now contains its own sample file-size compression, which you can choose when saving a library. This massively reduces the size on disc. Since Mbira is such a large product, (due to the sheer number of notes multiplied by 8 velocities and 3 round-robins + mics AND pickup samples), we decided we'd better use the compression functionality available!

Hope that clears up some confusion

James