KVR Audio

poonna · Post by **poonna** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:42 am

It's said on the website that this free Kontakt Player will play any 3rd-party instruments powered by Kontakt. I'm honestly not sure what "powered by Kontakt" means. Does that mean any Kontakt libraries? Or does that mean only Kontakt libraries that come with a version of Kontakt Player?

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 11:49 am

i think, 'powered by Kontakt' means every library, that has a Kontakt Player included

ew · Post by ew » Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:34 pm

The wording's confusing, I'll agree.

The player can play anything made for Kontakt- no surprise, considering the player and the full version are the same app. However, it will be in demo mode except for when playing libraries that came with a player and are activated via the Service Center.

The only differences between the player and the full version now are 1) libraries, and 2) the serial number unlocking or locking all the features.

ew

danbroad · Post by **danbroad** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:49 pm

Eric - will this player allow me to reinstall Morphology on my Intel mac? That'd be the best news I've heard all day.

ew · Post by ew » Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:57 pm

Yep. Install it, activate it and run it in standalone. Then, start the Kontakt player; the content will be usable there.

ew

samsam · Post by **samsam** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:59 pm

Is this a brand new thing? Never seen it before.

Anyway, real question is this: just downloaded KP and the Kontact Factory Selection. KP works fine but when I double click on the zip of the factory selection I get "Unable to unarchive "Kontact Blah blah OSX.zip" into desktop. (Error 1 - Operation not permitted)".

Anyone on a Mac got this working? Any hints?

vespers75 · Post by **vespers75** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:06 pm

samsam wrote:Is this a brand new thing? Never seen it before.

Anyway, real question is this: just downloaded KP and the Kontact Factory Selection. KP works fine but when I double click on the zip of the factory selection I get "Unable to unarchive "Kontact Blah blah OSX.zip" into desktop. (Error 1 - Operation not permitted)".

Anyone on a Mac got this working? Any hints?

As stated above, KP will only play registered libraries that come with a Kontakt player.

samsam · Post by **samsam** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:12 pm

vespers75 wrote:
samsam wrote:Is this a brand new thing? Never seen it before.

Anyway, real question is this: just downloaded KP and the Kontact Factory Selection. KP works fine but when I double click on the zip of the factory selection I get "Unable to unarchive "Kontact Blah blah OSX.zip" into desktop. (Error 1 - Operation not permitted)".

Anyone on a Mac got this working? Any hints?
As stated above, KP will only play registered libraries that come with a Kontakt player.

Er, yes, but unless I've missed something, the Factory Selection IS designed to play with KP, that's the whole point.

Odd thing is I've just gone back to NI's website to check and it won't open for me. Weird. Late here. Maybe should go to bed and try again tomorrow.

ew · Post by ew » Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:12 pm

vespers75 wrote:
samsam wrote:Is this a brand new thing? Never seen it before.

Anyway, real question is this: just downloaded KP and the Kontact Factory Selection. KP works fine but when I double click on the zip of the factory selection I get "Unable to unarchive "Kontact Blah blah OSX.zip" into desktop. (Error 1 - Operation not permitted)".

Anyone on a Mac got this working? Any hints?
As stated above, KP will only play registered libraries that come with a Kontakt player.

That's the content that comes with the player- it should be opening.

ew

vespers75 · Post by **vespers75** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:14 pm

ew wrote:
vespers75 wrote:
samsam wrote:Is this a brand new thing? Never seen it before.

Anyway, real question is this: just downloaded KP and the Kontact Factory Selection. KP works fine but when I double click on the zip of the factory selection I get "Unable to unarchive "Kontact Blah blah OSX.zip" into desktop. (Error 1 - Operation not permitted)".

Anyone on a Mac got this working? Any hints?
As stated above, KP will only play registered libraries that come with a Kontakt player.
That's the content that comes with the player- it should be opening.

ew

Yeah, I just realized I worded that wrong...it would be only be "full-featured" with the registered KP libraries, correct?

samsam · Post by **samsam** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:16 pm

Ew, the small amount of content that comes with the player opens fine.

The Factory Selection is a separate download and is different to the KP included stuff; that's the zip that won't open. Maybe it's corrupt, I dunno.

ew · Post by ew » Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:20 pm

samsam wrote:Ew, the small amount of content that comes with the player opens fine.

The Factory Selection is a separate download and is different to the KP included stuff; that's the zip that won't open. Maybe it's corrupt, I dunno.

Thanks for the clarification. I don't have (or need) the new player, so I wasn't sure.

By the way, if you have the full Kontakt 3.5, needless to say, you don't need the player.

ew

jancivil · Post by **jancivil** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:55 pm

If you have the full Kontakt 3.5, KP 3.5 will not install on OSX.

btw, Native Instruments site, according to Firefox here "does not suplly identity information", a blank page today.

"your connection to this site is not encrypted"

red37 · Post by **red37** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:56 pm

I cannot access the NI websaite (well i cant get to the flash part) anyway. Anyone else?

Trying to download the KONTAKT 3 player thats all.

vespers75 · Post by **vespers75** » Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:00 pm

It probably is temporarily down due to everyone and their mother trying to download the player.

Does the new Kontakt Player 3.5 play any Kontakt libraries?