KVR Audio

kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:34 am

oddbods finger wrote:
kovacs wrote: Only problem is it seems NI is eol-ing Kompakt.

eol-ing ?

Sorry. "End-of-line"-ing. In other words, it seems they have no plans for future updates.

It hasn't been updated for ages. It's still a great sample player, though.

Yes, too bad you missed the GPO group buy, it was a good deal and has a lot of the instruments you mention. It uses the Kontakt player, but cannot be expanded, though.

kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:41 am

Oddbods, just saw this on eBay, might be interesting. Looks legit, too:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Native-Instruments- ... dZViewItem

oddbods finger · Post by **oddbods finger** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:55 pm

kovacs wrote:Oddbods, just saw this on eBay, might be interesting. Looks legit, too:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Native-Instruments- ... dZViewItem

Cheers, but it's US only....and I'm in the UK.

Think I'm going to try Halion Player anyway.

kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 5:27 pm

oddbods finger wrote:Cheers, but it's US only....and I'm in the UK.

So much for reading all the info...sorry.

Sidhu · Post by **Sidhu** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:43 pm

oddbods finger wrote:
mmm...actually Halion Player for only £70 seems like a no-brainer....could also pick up Philharmonik and be under budget...
or GPO?...missed out on that recent Group Buy didn't I.

And then you could also purchase the chicken translator 'HALion only' edition.. and still be under budget! This way you get the flexibility to play almost all leading formats within halion.

http://www.chickensys.com/products/tran ... halion.php

Sidhu

Sidhu · Post by **Sidhu** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:52 pm

Just read... All steinberg sofware purchased after Jan 05 now neded a Steinberg Key as copy protection... and you need to purchase it seperately... u might want to consider this.

Sidhu

(is not NI also coming up with their own form of key protection ? and oes IK already hav it? )

kovacs · Post by **kovacs** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:05 pm

sidhu wrote:(is not NI also coming up with their own form of key protection ? and oes IK already hav it? )

If they do I haven't heard about it...and I have NI Komplete 2 w/Komplete Care.

Sidhu · Post by **Sidhu** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:10 pm

Suppose then they don't... But I think i read somewhere that they plan to switch to keys with the release of Amplitube 2 and all...

Sidhu

zai · Post by **zai** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:42 pm

Future IK's products will need to have the "key" inserted to the USB port in order for it to run. Copy protection...it's sad to see that more and more companies use this for their protection...they need to do what they need to do I guess. So far, I'm still OK with it...but when I have to install 10s of these thing...who knows!

As far as NI is concern, I think they're sticking to their orgional protection scheme...you send in your computer id/key and they register your computer as one license, I think you get 2 at any given time. You can always de-authorize it if needs be.

Zai

oddbods finger · Post by **oddbods finger** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:40 pm

sidhu wrote:All steinberg sofware purchased after Jan 05 now neded a Steinberg Key as copy protection... and you need to purchase it seperately... u might want to consider this.

Thanks,
Yes the key costs another £20.

Managed to pick a copy of Kompakt cheap (£79).
So this eliminates the need for Chicken Systems Translator.

Also looking at www.projectsam.com brass samples which sound nice and aren't too expensive.

Still possibly considering GPO/Philharmonik but I'll wait for Kompakt to arrive first.

Halion/Kontakt/Sampletank/Other...?